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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Professor Dr. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, currently teaching physics and math at Lahore’s Forman Christian College University, has been informed that his contract will not be renewed in 2021. The same ...

The U.S. on Friday announced $1 million in disaster aid to Pakistan to support the country’s ability to address natural disasters such as flooding after torrential downpours. In a statement, the U.S.

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 ...

Hamid Karzai was an Afghan politician who served as president of Afghanistan from Dec. 22, 2001 to Sept. 29, 2014. He is a khan of the Popalzai Durrani Pashtun tribe of Kandahar, where he was born in ...

The ruling coalition on Friday slammed the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s attempt to jeopardize the IMF loan program” mere days before the global lender’s Executive Board is set to meet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Describing terrorism as a “global threat,” Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday warned it has the potential to destabilize the South Asian region and needs a ...