Month: February 2020

STOP! Stop all this horrid bad news! Can’t bear it! Fetch my injections and let me see the houris! AND ...

Wages of sin If this isn’t an object lesson in the wages of sin, we don’t know what is. The ...

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

Parvez Mahmood tells the story of Gul Bahar Begum, one of Ranjit Singh’s most honoured Muslim wives, whose name still ...

Titles available at Books n Beans (Lahore) or through www.vanguardbooks.com

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro on the unique necropolis of the Burfats

The fifth edition of PSL has a familiar feel to it. K Shahid reports from Lahore and Multan

Daniyal Zahid finds an example of what not do do for Pakistani filmmakers

As the world confronts the Coronavirus, Syed Amir offers a look back at the Spanish Flu outbreak

Muhammad Tahir Iqbal on the central role played by markers of faith and identity in a divided India

Raza Naeem helps us to zoom in on LLF 2020

Noreen Mirza accompanied Lance Daffadar Muhammad Hussain, a WW2 veteran, as he honoured his comrades in arms

Fayes T Kantawala thinks about the meeting of minds between Trump and Modi

This photograph shows three punkah-wallas (ceiling fan coolies) on a veranda pulling strings. When the British first came to India, ...

US President Donald Trump’s two-day India visit is over. He landed in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, Gujarat, ...

We need a re-united and rejuvenated Left, writes Farhatullah Babar

Four concentric circles must come together if the Afghan process is to succeed, writes Willliam Milam

The Bernie Sanders phenomena did not recede even after 2016, writes Saeed Naqvi

Daud Khan met some wonderful people during his recent travels

Traditionally, the judiciary has been a loyal handmaiden to the executive. This is a hangover of colonial rule when the ...

Aik tau I’m sick of this Corolla Virus. Oho baba, I’m not sick like with fever, cuff and all, God ...

Megalomaniac The famous Indian journalist Tavleen Singh has had a significant association with Pakistan, not least through her author son ...

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

Major General Syed Ali Hamid on the wily Maharaja’s successful efforts to provide the Khalsa Fauj with artillery that rivaled ...

Muhammad Abbas Khaskheli on the plight of fisherfolk communities who await the return of loved ones from Indian jails

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro offers an overview of ancient structures from the region