Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Thursday wrote a letter to all members of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), including Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, seeking the public release of ...

Theoretical physicist Riazuddin died in September. Pity no one noticed. When Riazuddin—that was his full name—died in September at age 82 in Islamabad, international science organizations extolled his ...

Syeda Hameed’s book, Born to be Hanged (Rupa 2017), pays tribute to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whose death bequeathed to the Pakistani national memory a permanent ...

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 ...

Inside Pakistan’s most dangerous neighborhood. It was a public execution unprecedented in its brutality even by Karachi’s own gruesome standards. The criminal who had been lording over Lyari, the city ...

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 ...

Pakistan began describing itself as an ideological state after the word had been made respectable by the Soviet Union through its planned economy and rapid growth. Ideology means the state has an idea ...

In her 2011 book, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan, Saadia Toor narrates an incident from 1999 at the office of Lahore’s “women lawyers” Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani, ...

The Government of Pakistan on Thursday declared a national emergency over the ongoing rains that have left large parts of the country underwater, as the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) ...

Damage to Munda Headworks, which regulates the flow of the Swat River, on Friday evening left Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera and Charsadda districts at risk of flooding, with authorities expediting ...

In A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster, author Joshua Partlow has studied in great detail the life and political career of former Afghan ...

Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday acknowledged the rise of terrorism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul last year, adding that the worsening law and ...