Misplaced Intentions: The Futile Debate On Democracy In Pakistan
We hear the word ‘democracy’ a lot in Pakistan. We hear it from politicians, from their supporters and in the...
We hear the word ‘democracy’ a lot in Pakistan. We hear it from politicians, from their supporters and in the...
On a night as dark as the sins that had been committed therein, those were strange lamps that burnt by...
With millions of Indian and Pakistani film watchers and enthusiasts talking about Shahrukh Khan’s latest film Pathaan, I finally mustered...
The living legend of Pakistani films, television and stage Zia Mohyeddin has taken his final bow and passed into oblivion....
Women of Pakistan are…. Angry! Nay, they are burning in anger and screaming till they have gone hoarse but is...
With thousands of souls lost to the devastation brought by the violent and sudden movement of tectonic plates, my hands...
Energetic drum beaters wearing traditional turbans are beating the drums with zeal and zest to attract crowds towards Malakhro, a...
After failing to adopt legislative measures against the forced conversions of non-Muslim girls, followed by marriages, the government has now...
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Today, the 10th of February 2023, marks the 36th death anniversary of Sadequain Amrohi, the legendary poet, painter and calligrapher....
A few days ago, Saudi Arabia’s Assistant Minister of Defence Talal Al-Otaibi met Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif in...
On his watch, the Pakistani army decided to attack Indian positions at Kargil, Kashmir, in the spring of 1999. He...
During the dying days of the Trump Administration the US was able to cajole Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the UAE...
Soon after toppling the second Nawaz Sharif government in October 1999 in a military coup, General Parvez Musharraf posed for...
Imagining the past is no mean feat. Especially if it is the remote past. Even more so if it is...
I began my education in Gujrat in 1957 in a Municipal Corporation Primary School (a tat school) located near Islamia...
Miftah Ismail is one of the key figures of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), a leading politician and an economic wizard...
The domestic systems of both Pakistan and Türkiye have witnessed various formats of cultural collaboration with the objective of increasing...
While this quotation comes from a story about the experiences of a Jewish American businessman during the fervour of the...
Pakistan’s currency dropped 9.6% against the US dollar Thursday to an all-time low in the largest single-day fall in at...
In Pakistan, as in much of the Muslim world, the Ottoman Emperors are idolised, and often portrayed as God’s gift...
I used to be invited by the Staff College at Quetta to give a talk on the evolution of warfare,...
On the 14th of January, the Punjab Assembly was dissolved by the Chief Minister of Punjab Parvez Elahi, and this...
It took the Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi five long years to decide Naqeebullah Mehsud’s murder case. At the end, the...
On my year-long study tour of the United States, many African Americans, when asked about American identity in relation to...
This author spent his formative years within the walled city of Lahore. Recently, he visited Shah Alam Market on an...
On Wednesday March 22, a twitter user tweeted...
The saying goes, ‘All good things in life...
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