Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday announced nationwide demonstrations for Saturday (today) evening to protest the ongoing detention and alleged torture of his chief of staff ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leaked audio-tapes of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders allegedly discussing means to withdraw commitments of the provincial governments of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from the federal ...

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 ...

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) ...

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Thursday won the by-elections on the NA-240 constituency of Karachi in a contest with very low voter turnout that was marred by violence. According to ...

The Foreign Office on Thursday outright rejected media speculation that Pakistan’s airspace had been used for a U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. Addressing a ...

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 ...