Month: March 2017

Chalo, thanks God, PSL final went off araam say. All those doomday predications about bombs and khoon kharaba aa ja ...

Golf fanatic A high official of the land, who was top of the heap a few years ago and a ...

"The PCB should ban players who refused to play the PSL final in Lahore and take newcomers instead" The Friday ...

These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, tft takes no ...

Imran Khan is an angry old man, and a self-centered, self-righteous, arrogant racist. The hallmark of his politics is now ...

The Jayalalithaa verdict: Why Indian politicians finally have something to fear

A new State Dept report highlights Pakistan's weak money laundering and terror financing crackdown

Pakistan and Afghanistan need to cooperate, not let the rift widen

ISI official kidnapped and murdered in Multan 

Several new analyses have been questionably bullish on the effect on GDP

The government's policy has hit PIA badly

Banning wine shops in Sindh is so 1979

Why would contemporary terrorists mark it out for violence? Raza Rumi explains

Athar Ahmed Saeed takes us on a trip down memory lane, to a Lahore that once was

Quddus Mirza reviews the work of Saba Khan, who depicts a society where consumption and religiosity reign supreme 

Ishtiaq Ahmed on the ties that connect Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor to a small town in Pakistani Punjab

A West Indian helped Pakistan conjure an historic triumph in the PSL final. K Shahid reports from Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore

It is hard to write about Nigar – hard to decide which thread of her life to pick up, and ...

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Shemeem Burney Abbas on a great Pakistani educator

Zara C. Churri also got caught up in PSL mania this week!

How does a country's image affect its residents? Fayes T Kantawala considers the good, the bad and the ugly

The photo shows Prime Minister Abdel Karim Kassem (left) and an associate being escorted by Pakistan’s Ambassador to Iraq Sajjad ...

Mobarak, meray aziz humwanto, on successful PSL! If Imran Khan’s bus had walked (agar uss ka bus chalta) PSL would ...

Walls have ears Their lordships in their labyrinth are mulling over their judgment, we hear, except that sources say they ...

"Out of 274 military court trials, 161 convicts were awarded the death penalty and 12 have been executed" The Friday ...