It was Ramadan in the year 1841 and Abdullah Khan Achakzai was probably wondering what tribulations he had fallen under....

In the Land of the Free, there is an ‘anomaly,’ a political prisoner – a Pakistani national Dr Aafia Siddiqui....

Landscapes of the Jihad by eminent Oxford University thinker Professor Faisal Devji explores the features that Al-Qaeda and other strands...

We consider here an important work by a Pakistani American scholar on the Mujadidi Sufi networks that spread after the...

The UN states that half of Afghan children under the age of five face malnutrition as the war economy sustained...

There are distinct similarities between the first Anglo-Afghan war and the present conflict, chief of which is that it was...

The city of Jaffa was the largest Palestinian population center before al Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Known to...

Farrukh Husain discusses the status of women in Afghanistan as the US adventure comes to an end

Farrukh Husain describes the scenes witnessed by people in Qissa Khwani Bazaar in April, 1930