It was a case of first impression for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) when a complaint was filed in...

Maverick, unpredictable, volatile, albeit a visionary and cold-bloodedly authoritarian who struck gold at an early age in the anachronistically medieval...

“Oh, darling, I have the most wonderful doctor, Catherine said in a very strange voice. ‘He has been telling me...

People thought wife of the senior puisne judge, Justice Qazi Faez Isa, having been compelled to go public in an...

It was a sweltering mid-morning in the summer of 2004. A lawyer friend was acting on behalf of the Niazi...

It’s the age of social media trends with the so-called media influencers in ever so great demand to manufacture social...

If the divisions and fissures created by diametrically opposed views on rule of law and fundamental rights in general held...

As the controversy around the recent appointment of Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar to the Supreme Court raged with the key...

Watching an eerie looking, seventeen second long video clip received on Whatsapp first thing in the morning can be quite...

It was early in the morning and the chief security officer of the then President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari had...

The Financial Action Task Force, an organization initially set up to eradicate money laundering around the globe, has been combating...

Tariq Bashir looks for Lahore's soul in Pran Neville's fond memories of the city

Tariq Bashir on Raza Rumi's recently published collection of writings, penned amidst Pakistan's fitful journey towards democratic stability

Tariq Bashir examines the staggering implications of Brexit - for the UK and for Pakistanis

Tariq Bashir reviews Dilip Hiro's book on the nature and roots of the poisonous Indo-Pak rivalry

Tariq Bashir reviews the new book on Indo-Pak relations that is creating ripples in both countries

Tariq Bashir reviews Christina Lamb's new book on Afghanistan, agreeing that someone had, indeed, blunder'd

Tariq Bashir reconstructs the story of the historical split between Sunni and Shia Islam

Tariq Bashir reviews Ziauddin Sardar's rich but disheartening account of the history of Mecca

In his review of The Unquiet Ones, Tariq Bashir looks at the heart-lifting, heart-breaking story of Pakistani cricket

Tariq Bashir recaptures the farcical trial of Saadat Hasan Manto, charged with obscenity… and worse, good literature

Pakistan debates the consequences of military courts

Peter Oborne's history of Pakistani cricket is a masterful insight into Pakistan as a society, its original vision as a...

Tariq Bashir traces the reasons for the downfall of the Sikh Empire

In the early 1980s a group of well-connected Pakistani men dreamt of a 'revolution' much more hard core than the...

The outspoken liberal will stay in exile and wait for a miracle