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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time not too long ago when two top terrorist organizations of the world—Al Qaeda and Daesh—were both headquartered in Pakistan. Al Qaeda even claimed the assassination of twice-prime ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s February 2022 visit to Moscow on the eve of Russia’s Ukraine invasion reportedly changed American policy toward Pakistan. Already leaning toward India in the ...