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, ...

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 ...

Since the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) launched in 2008 with Iron Man, it has primarily focused on the staples of the comic book industry, many of them originating in the 1960s. As a consequence, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The state of Pakistan and its inhabitants owe a debt of gratitude to Aga Khan III for his contributions to its development In his well-documented book, A Leadership Odyssey: Muslim Separatism and ...

Lamenting that residents of relief camps in various flood-affected areas of Balochistan had told him they were not being provided food and water, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday directed ...

Despite lip-service for equal treatment from nearly all governments, past and present, minorities in Pakistan continue to struggle for their civil rights in all aspects of their lives. The problem is ...

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 president Hamid Karzai, offering ...

Pakistan on Thursday rejected remarks attributed to an Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson in which he had accused Islamabad of “systemic persecution of religious minorities” following ...

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 ...

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 ...