An Incident to Remember Over two decades later, the 1999 ‘honor killing’ of Samia Sarwar remains a blot on Pakistan’s claims of equal rights for women ...

Mahmood Ali Ayub and Syed Turab Hussain have put together Candles in the Dark: Successful Organizations in Pakistan’s Weak Organizational Environment (OUP 2016), giving insight into the objective ...

Many Pakistanis think that Salam was opposed to making the bomb. Some say he played no role in it. This is wrong—he did want Pakistan to have the bomb, but felt that he had more important things to do ...

In his books on Pakistan and India, the American historian, who died aged 91, had much knowledge to impart On March 12, 2019, the former Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, ...

The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977 (Routledge 2018) by Salman Rafi Sheikh is clearly the most comprehensive and penetrating study of what the state of ...

Remembering Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Decades after his execution, questions persist over the manner in which courts declared the PPP founder guilty of ‘conspiracy to murder’ ...

India, eyeing the Russian S-400 Triumf long-range, anti-aircraft system since 2015, has finally signed a $5.4-billion deal for the system. The purchase has sharply increased the conventional military ...

In Urdu Poetry: The Progressive Episode (OUP 2017), author Carlo Coppola tells us about the life of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. A Professor Emeritus of Hindi-Urdu and linguistics at Oakland University, Rochester ...

‘Runaway’ Girls and Their Rights In our zeal to protect victims of underage marriage, we should not ignore the societal circumstances that encourage children to flee their homes ...

Afghanistan: Charisma and Corruption The rise and fall of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president who ruled the country for 13 years ...

Despite lip-service for equal treatment from nearly all governments, past and present, minorities in Pakistan continue to struggle for their civil rights in all aspects of their lives. The problem is ...

The convicts are also required to pay fines of Rs. 200,000 each An Islamabad District and Sessions Court on Friday sentenced primary accused Usman Mirza and four others to life imprisonment for ...