Month: August 2017

President Donald Trump’s belated announcement of his administration’s Afghan Policy is ominous. Never mind that it is an unabashed reversal ...

Trump settled for publicly scolding Pakistan

MA Siddiqi lays out the trends in an elite army tradition

Multan hearing turns ugly between bar and bench

PPP gets into dirty fight for power in Sindh v Centre

PPP has wrecked its rep in Sindh ahead of the elections

Few takers for Modi's Aug 15 Kashmir speech

Assad Ahmad explains this summer's stock market fiasco

The movement of the imperial court was a massive affair. Parvez Mahood describes how emperors toured the land

Garga Chatterjee dissects a recent Madras High Court order making the singing of a 'national song' compulsory

For those who want their veggies flavourful, homegrown, trouble-free and really fast, Zahra Ali has some ideas

Shehzad Ghias is worried about where things are going with the Trump administration

Noor Jehan Mecklai on artist Obaid ur Rahman and his show at Sanat Gallery, Karachi

An episode of violent repression from 1948 remains etched in the memories of many in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Abdur Rauf Yousafzai reports

The mountains only 'call' responsible tourists writes Hanniah Tariq

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Why do the two legends' differences continue to resurface long after their retirement, asks K Shahid

Zeinab Masud on her loved ones' intense and varied relationship with desserts

Fayes T Kantawala on the peculiar challenges of writing

This photograph documents the relocation of the Ayahs’ Home from 26 King Edward Road, Hackney to a larger property at ...

It is relieve to be back in Raiwind, meray aziz humwatno, from that sterile town Islamabad. Ever since my arrival, ...

Unforgiveable slight One of the reasons why the late lamented Big Ben’s Hubby is not smoking the peace pipe with ...

"It should be mandatory for the Chinese to learn our languages" The Friday Times, Plot No 52-53, N-Block, Main Guru ...

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

As Pakistan turns 70, political scientists are trying to fathom the dimensions and implications of a new twist in an ...

MML brings terror watchlist JuD into mainstream