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 ...

Pakistan on Sunday described as “highly regrettable” accusations made by Afghanistan Acting Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob regarding the use of Pakistan’s airspace by U.S. drones, adding such ...

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail slammed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Jhagra on Monday, accusing him of lying to the public by claiming a letter in which Peshawar had said it cannot commit ...

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 ...

British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday confirmed that the U.K. has inked a deal allowing the extradition of “criminals” and “immigration offenders” from Britain to Pakistan. “I’m proud to ...

David L. Gosling served as principal of the Edwardes College at the University of Peshawar from 2006-2010. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he has been on the faculty of universities in Hull and Delhi ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Two teenaged girls from Karachi—Dua Zehra and Nimra Kazmi—were “kidnapped” from their homes in April 2022 and found “married” in Punjab; Zehra in Lahore; and Nimra in Dera Ghazi Khan. Since both girls ...

Linus Strothmann of the Institute for Geographical Sciences, Freie Universitat, Berlin, has written a book on Lahore’s most beloved saint, Data Sahib Ali Hujwiri Ganj Baksh—popularly known as just ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday formally revived a $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Pakistan, allowing for the release of a $1 billion tranche that is widely perceived to ...