Month: March 2019

Pakistan Day celebrations were not originally designed to showcase military might, writes Farhatulah Babar

Nawaz Sharif will not engage in any major political activity. He wants to stay indoors and focus on his health, ...

Syeda Mamoona Rubab explains how Pakistan’s relationship with the EU has strengthened over time

It is impossible for governments to administer lower prices and ensure proper supply and quality at the same time, writes ...

Announcements by the federal government regarding CPEC in Balochistan are received with a degree of scepticism, writes Adnan Aamir

In an unprecedented decision, the Supreme Court (SC) has given bail on medical grounds to Mian Nawaz Sharif, subject to ...

Muhammad Tahir Iqbal feels Pulwama was the best thing to have happened to the BJP ahead of the elections in ...

The novel Camp of the Saints shows destruction of the Western civilisation through third world immigration. This was Tarrant’s nightmare, ...

Durriya Kazi writes about the lone woman in the first working committee of the Muslim League – an indomitable opponent ...

Maj General Syed Ali Hamid on the 64-ship flypast that thrilled Karachiites on the 23rd of March 1957

Maham Sajid holds on to certainties in an unstable region

Daniyal Zahid finds little more than a rehash of ‘Parwaaz Hai Junoon’

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro on the roots of Sindh’s popular and anti-colonial mystics

We reproduce parts of the 2015 interview conducted by Jamile Naqi with the recently departed Tahir Yazdani Malik

Parvez Mahmood thinks about the destructive power of hatred as he mourns the loss of his nephew, the bright Dr. ...

Report by Ammara Ahmad

Fayes T Kantawala could not block out Shah sahib and his worldview – try as he might

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Judicial reforms in Pakistan cannot succeed without meaningful institutional engagement with the bar, argues Ziaullah Ranjah

This photograph, captured in 1960, shows then President Ayub Khan at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference in London. He had ...

K Shahid is perplexed by Pakistan’s strategy for the ongoing ODI series against Australia

I can’t stand these smart aleck journalists who constantly write negative things about my performance. My performance, if you please, ...

"If there has been one big political disappointment in India in the recent past, it has been the rise and ...

Officer & gentleman A former officer and gentleman took his own life recently, citing impending humiliation at the hand of ...

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

CPEC’s security has been handed over to the military but little is known about the terms and conditions of its ...