At the time of writing this, Pakistan’s neighbour to the north, Afghanistan, is going through another spasm of violence in...

Of the seafaring explorers who circled and mapped the globe, the name that most readily comes to every schoolboy’s mind...

As an op-ed writer, I have been silent and absent from these pages for too many months now. Since this...

As we cope with a global pandemic, Salman Tarik Kureshi explains why authority, especially in uniform, needs to be kept...

Salman Tarik Kureshi wonders if policy makers have learned anything from a long line of peace deals in the conflict-ridden...

Salman Tarik Kureshi tries to make sense of political morality in Pakistan

Salman Tarik Kureshi notes how history’s violent processes continued through the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the invisible hand that seems to drive Pakistan’s history

Salman Tarik Kureshi reflects on how Pakistan’s political history has been driven by one mystery after another

Salman Tarik Kureshi remembers the story of the first victims of a hydrogen bomb

In an age of nuclear bluster, Salman Tarik Kureshi looks back on the two times that such weapons were used...

Salman Tarik Kureshi reminds us why long lasting peace and prosperity is the greatest revenge

Salman Tarik Kureshi explores the concept of populism as a political method which can be used by both Right and...

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the economic and political consequences of neoliberalism

Salman Tarik Kureshi examines how the Swat region became a model for state failure across Pakistan

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the strategic cost of fighting words

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the episodes of mass rage that strike in Pakistan from time to time

Salman Tarik Kureshi reminds us that warfare is central to the way of life of Homo Sapiens – with increasingly...

Salman Tarik Kureshi examines the political choices before millennials and post-millennials

Salman Tarik Kureshi looks back at the birth of the Presidential system and unpacks the current debate in Pakistan

Salman Tarik Kureshi believes Pakistan’s history sounds a warning to the current administration about the dangers of leaving a vaccum

Salman Tarik Kureshi takes apart the notion of corruption, with a look at authoritarian regimes through the ages

For Salman Tarik Kureshi, this is the third in a series of them

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the continued relevance in today’s Pakistan of the Diarchy system introduced by the British Raj

Salman Tarik Kureshi offers a bird's-eye view of elections, choices and engineering

Salman Tarik Kureshi on the decisive role played by Christian leadership and intellectuals in the Pakistan movement