Month: May 2020

On May 28, 2010, two Ahmadi worship places were attacked by suicide jacket-wearing terrorists who came with guns and grenades ...

Just when the economy was in a nosedive came the pandemic, inviting a lockdown which has devastated it further, writes ...

The Taliban have time and again let Pakistan down, writes Arwin Rahi

As lockdown continues in Pakistan, approximately 2 million people in Karachi have lost their earnings and are facing serious financial ...

It is easy to make decisions when we know how two temporally successive events will pan out, i.e., when one ...

Merely shuffling persons in the information pack will not deliver unless the image problem is addressed, writes Farhatullah Babar

In an extraordinary statement in front of a youthful, middle-class audience at a state university, Prime Minister Imran Khan has ...

This photograph, captured on April 29, 1945, show crowds gathering in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, Italy, to see the bodies of ...

Fayes T Kantawala remembers what it was like to be taught by the late Zarina Hashmi

Zeinab Masud tallks to Dr Sheeza Mohsin about mental health, Pakistan, the diaspora and the Coronavirus

Raza Naeem explores the Russian revolutionary’s influence on Urdu’s literati

Izza Khan on how we must silence our harsh inner critic in this testing era

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro describes a number of startling images from times long gone by

Muhammad Abbas Khaskheli on the difficulties posed by uncontrolled growth in urban populations

Khaled Ahmed celebrates a life well-lived lived on the occasion of Syed Babar Ali’s election to the American Academy of ...

Parvez Mahmood on the historical and geographical factors which played a role in the Abbasid decision to found Baghdad

Departure lounge Believe it or not, but even the high and mighty chief officer of the Punjab, batch mate and ...

Such sad news, I said to Shbaz Saab when I rang him in Lahore. Rishi Kapoor ki death ho gayee ...

ایک سرکاری جامعہ میں درمیانے طبقے سے تعلق رکھنے والے نوجوانوں کے سامنے وزیر اعظم کا بیان یقینا غیر معمولی ...

Last November, pundits were counting the weeks for regime change. Six months later, they fear we are stuck with Imran ...

The global legal landscape is fast changing. We need to come out of our colonial past, writes Ziaullah Ranjah

The government has not been able to control movements and gatherings of people in Quetta, writes Adnan Aamir

Muqtadar Quraishi and Daud Khan

The simple trade-off between lives and livelihoods is a false choice, writes William Milam

Space for criticising official policies has shrunk, writes Farhatullah Babar