Pakistan Needs To Preserve Its Folklore
A recent trip to Ranikot Fort had me question the motive behind its creation. Its 26-km circumference defies all logic. ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Tag: Pakistan
Senate Condemns Lynching Of Priyantha Kumara: Delegation To Take Resolution To Sri Lanka
The Senate of Pakistan has passed a resolution unanimously condemning the incident where a Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara was ...
An Ill-Fated Merger: The Pitfalls Of Sacralising The Secular In India And Pakistan
Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not ...
Raza Rabbani Asks For Secret Ceasefire Terms With Pakistani Taliban To Be Made Public
Former Senate chairman and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Senator Raza Rabbani has asked for clarity on the deal recently ...
Fires Of Fanaticism – And How We Might Put Them Out
Extremism is a state of mind where a person holds extreme and narrow-minded political and religious views of their own ...
Captain, Comrade, Conspirator, Citizen: Zafar Ullah Poshni’s Vow of Loyalty
It so happened that I was reading the very readable WW2 memoir of Major Ishaq Muhammad on the 6th of ...
Protecting Our Own: Pakistanis Jailed Abroad
Worldwide, migrant workers are exploited by countries that build entire economies on their backs. Earlier this year, it was revealed ...
Authorities Suspect A Second Omicron-Positive Patient Has Been Identified In Karachi
Pakistan has detected another suspected case of the Omicron variant of the novel Coronavirus in Karachi. It was reported that ...
TTP Commander Faqir Mohammad Escapes Attack On Afghanistan Base
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Maulvi Faqir Mohammad escaped a drone strike at a compound in Chawgam village, in Afghanistan’s eastern ...
Gladly Becoming The Other: The Oddities Of Self-Orientalism
In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West ...
Pakistan’s Extremism Problem: Why Does Imran Khan Always Get It Wrong?
Prime Minister Imran Khan recently stated that force will not eliminate extremism. Instead, he said that unfiltered content on phones ...
Playing The Fiddle While Dhaka Burned: How We Ended Up With A Leftover Pakistan
16th of December 1971: General AAK Niazi receives a telegram from President Yahya Khan which reads: "You have fought a ...
Can ‘Khel Khel Mein’ Help Us Come To Terms With The Injustices And Trauma From 1971?
Brothers were separated. Both the Eastern and Western wings of the country were stained by blood. Relations between them changed: ...
National Action Plan?
Saudi Arabia, which leads the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) of 57 Muslim nations constituting over 1.3 billion people, has ...
Fragile Heritage Ecologies: A New Framework For Mountain Preservation
Pakistan is amongst the world’s most climate-change-vulnerable countries. Its geographical placement at the crest of the Arabian sea and between ...
How Interference ‘From The Top’ Unfairly Distorts The State Bank’s Performance Grading For Staff
Aslam Khan, an Assistant Director in State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), is visibly very happy. His hard work throughout the ...
Malik Riaz Reaches Settlement Worth £190 Million With Britain’s National Crime Agency
The National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom and Malik Riaz, a Pakistani property tycoon, have reached a settlement ...
HBL Collaborates On Agritech With BaKhabar Kissan
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Impunity For Religiously-Charged Mobs Is Now An Old Problem For Pakistan
The riled-up mob was chanting. They wanted to avenge themselves on him, they wanted him to come outside. Locked up ...
While Bollywood Toes The Hindu Nationalist Line, South Indian Cinema Takes Up The Real Issues
India’s versatile Bollywood industry has not only entertained people but has also worked as a powerful medium to broadcast social ...
From Maulana To Mao-Lana And Beyond: Bhashani’s Dream
Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...
Another Route To China: Can CPEC Open Up More Secure Alternatives To The Khunjerab Pass?
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a very well-thought-out and executed project. The various road networks – many of ...
Rs. 40 Billion In Irregularities: Where Did The Covid Funds Go?
On the evening of the 13th of March 2020, the chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) General Muhammad ...
A Lone Activist Is Fighting Climate Change In KP, Planting Millions Of Trees
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s flagship Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Plantation (TBTTP) initiative is not only helping the country to counter ...
Afghan Taliban Say TTP Not A ‘Branch’ Of The Kabul Regime, Term Pakistan’s System ‘UnIslamic’
In a surprising statement, the spokesperson of the Afghan Taliban has termed Pakistan's governance system unIslamic, saying that the Pakistan ...
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Govt Claims Zero Loadshedding On Feeders With 80pc Recovery
Minister for Power Khurrum Dastagir Khan has said...
Protest Demanding Recovery Of Missing Journalist Held In Lahore
Journalists and media organisations held a protest demonstration...