Month: September 2019

So much has happened since schools stopped teaching literature in Pakistan, writes Anjum Altaf

Conspiracy theories of a “deal” between the Sharifs and the Miltablishment originate mainly from media touts of the Miltablishment or ...

Murtaza Solangi wonders how Imran’s administration will manage all the troubles at home and abroad

Tabitha Spence explains the material processes that created and are worsening the climate crisis

The creeping coup advancing menacingly must come to an end if the country is to survive, writes Farhatullah Babar

Pakistan is not yet in the same deep quagmire as Argentina is, but the strains on its economy are becoming ...

Louis XIV of France had the phrase ultima ratio regum (literally: ‘the final argument of kings’) engraved on his cannons. The ...

The economy can still be salvaged by focusing on agriculture and industry, writes Danial Shikoh Atif

A weakened Netanyahu is bad news for the B Team, writes Saeed Naqvi

Cleaning the environment through judicial activism seems to have produced little results, writes Ziaullah Ranjah

Parvez Mahmood lays out what exactly the Two Nation Theory was – and what it was not

Adil Zareef on what authorities need to do about the alarming levels of environmental degradation in Swat

Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain on a collection of poems by Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Daniyal Zahid on the latest installment in the FnF franchise

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro reviews an important new work on the Ranikot Fort

Major General Syed Ali Hamid on the experience of the Bahawalpur State’s own military force during the 19th and 20th ...

Raza Naeem writes about Colonel Gaddafi and his role in Libya’s revolutions – the old and the new

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K Shahid previews Pakistan’s three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka

Fateh-ul-Mulk Ali Nasir on the global reach of the Indus people - millennia ago

Fayes T Kantawala watches TV in a world run by conservative populists

In this image, printed in ink on paper in 1917 in Kolkata, an Indian man sits in a train carriage ...

Yesterday afternoon, after lunch, Baby called me and said, ‘We’ve got to go to Sunny’s just now only.’ I had ...

High spirits After the recent fracas at the hands of an over-zealous NABber official, our former premier SKA is in ...

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

"Instead of focusing on the crime, an order was issued to ban the recording and circulation of videos of officials ...