Month: October 2019

Heart on sleeve The British Royals have been all over the news in Pakistan, and not to be left behind, ...

I’m sick of all this noise about Nawaz Sharif. How am I to blame for his declining health? Am I ...

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

"Washington is not winning this trade war. Although China’s economic growth has slowed, US consumers have been hit harder than ...

Parvez Mahmood examines the nature and scope of communal violence between Muslims and Hindus in the decades leading up to ...

Sarfaraz Memon on the colonial-era Ghanta Ghar of Sukkur

Zaffar Junejo on 19th-century Sikhism in urban Sindh

Daniyal Zahid is simply appalled by the new police flick

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro on the sacred spaces that dot a village in Tharparkar

Raza Naeem on how one of Iran’s most important revolutionary intellectuals saw the State of Israel

Major General Syed Ali Hamid on the last British officer to serve Pakistan – and how his medals ended up ...

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K Shahid backs the decision to sack Sarfaraz Ahmed as captain

Ammad Ali talks to veteran traveler and celebrated chronicler Salman Rashid

Fayes T Kantawala makes the case for why we should all be cancelled

This photograph shows Ghaus Baksh Bizenjo, a prominent MRD leader, speaking at a protest rally in Karachi’s Lyari area in ...

Recently a Shura member asked Maulana Fazalur Rehman, in a meeting of his party’s party central executive committee, that under ...

Ejaz Haider explains why it appears that ‘liberals’ are supporting Maulana’s Azadi March

Disbanding of the PMDC has removed a hurdle in the way of private medical institutions, writes Farhatullah Babar

According to FATF’s assessment, Pakistan implemented only 5 of 22 agreed action points. Syeda Mamoona Rubab what all remains unaddressed

The verdict in Babri Masjid case will decide if it is law and reason, or faith that becomes the basis ...

Sohail Khattak why the law has not yet passed in the KP assembly

What Erdogan has been offered is a poisoned chalice, writes Saeed Naqvi

The practice of jobbery has seeped deep into the psyche of this land and its people, 72 years after Jinnah ...

Muhammad Abbas Khaskheli believes the Indus River System Authority has put itself in a controversial position

Nawaz Sharif is reportedly at death’s door. He has been treated in a most inhumane and callous manner while in ...