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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Despite the Pakistan Army hinting at a tougher position on the reported resurgence of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, residents of Swat continue to fear the ...

On March 12, 2019, the former Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, Ameena Sayyid, posted on Facebook a message from Dorothy Wolpert, wife of writer-author Stanley Wolpert: “I ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in Islamabad, as reports emerged of widening rifts within the PMLQ over the ...

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 ...

The political leadership of the country was on Wednesday reassured that the military’s ongoing talks with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) will be in accordance with the Constitution and ...

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Tuesday announced that four soldiers were martyred after their convoy was targeted by a suicide bomber in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan. According ...

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 ...

As one uncovers the various sources of the evolution of the Pakistani state, it becomes obvious that it was always bound to become a religious state. Out of respect for Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali ...

Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa visited flood relief camps in Sindh’s Jilani, Khairpur and Kambar Shahdad Kot villages on Sunday, according to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), ...