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 ...

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) ...

Authorities in Sindh on Sunday started preparing for more flooding in the near future, as the heavy flow of the Indus River barreled down to the province from the country’s north, imperiling locals ...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday declared an emergency in Swat as flooding in the district caused several buildings to collapse and stranded local residents without aid. In a notification, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Reiterating its demand of a full court bench to hear all cases related to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of Article 63A of the Constitution—including that of PMLQ’s Pervaiz Elahi against the ...

July 9 marked the 53 rd death anniversary of Fatima Jinnah. Despite more than a century having passed since she expired in Karachi, questions remain about the cause of her death: according to a report ...

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 ...

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday underscored the importance of regional platforms to promote coordinated efforts in countering terrorism and extremism. Welcoming Ruslan Mirzaev, ...

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 ...