Month: September 2020

Among the several spaces that women are absent from, the decision-making process during a Nikkah ceremony is one of them. ...

Ex Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz chaired the high powered constitutional committee in 2015 ordered by PM Nawaz Sharif to review ...

نواز شریف نے بالآخر خاموشی توڑ دی۔ اہم بات یہ کہ اُنھوں نے کوئی لگی لپٹی نہیں رکھی۔ بہت کھلے ...

Sublime to ridiculous Readers will not have forgotten the Make Doom of Multan’s apparently inexplicable and public tirade against the ...

It is the season of heresies, meray aziz humwatno, so here is my list: 1950: Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan ...

Muhammad Huzaifa on the folk memory that surrounds Sau Malik, who defended today’s northern Pakistan from a Mongol incursion

The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East Patrick Wing Edinburgh University Press (2016) This book traces the ...

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro on the life and legacy of Makhdoom Nuh and his descendants

Major General Syed Ali Hamid on one of the greatest life-saving maneuvers in mountaineering history

Raza Naeem on the work of fiction icon Ibne Safi

Akhtar Hafeez on the disappearing grandeur of Hyderabad’s pre-Partition buildings

Nader Khan reports on the renovation of Peshawar’s iconic food point

Fayes T Kantawala on our coping mechanisms

TV talkshows in Pakistan are the news version of The Jerry Springer Show. Consider the latest flavour: ‘revelations’ regarding the ...

Abebe Bikila set an Olympic marathon record with a time of 2:15:16, becoming the first African athlete to win a ...

Farhatullah Babar outlines the main features of the declaration that led to the formation of Pakistan Democratic Movement

Just four months after starting the war on terror, US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld wrote on an internal review ...

An anti-Muslim edge in the media has antecedents which predate Modi, writes Saeed Naqvi

The weird love-hate relationship of the audience with female singers in Pakistan originates from the social fabric of South Asian ...

Nawaz Sharif has finally broken his silence. Significantly, he has not minced his words by laying into the Miltablishment for ...

گزشتہ بدھ کو حکومت نے پارلیمنٹ کے مشترکہ اجلاس میں کسی بحث کے بغیر آٹھ بل زبردستی منظور کرالیے۔ حکومت ...

Bonhomie There was general — ahem — bonhomie on display at a dinner party in the garrison town the other ...

You know me yaar. Vaisay tau I’m so light headed and easy going but recently my BP has just shot ...