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 ...

Many Pakistanis think that Salam was opposed to making the bomb. Some say he played no role in it. This is wrong—he did want Pakistan to have the bomb, but felt that he had more important things to do ...

The Process of Becoming an ‘Islamic’ State Pakistan has vacillated between liberal and orthodox outlooks for much of its 75-year history ...

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 ...

Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Thursday said the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been tasked with conducting a complete inquiry into the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s prohibited ...

Remembering Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Decades after his execution, questions persist over the manner in which courts declared the PPP founder guilty of ‘conspiracy to murder’ ...

Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday acknowledged the rise of terrorism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul last year, adding that the worsening law and ...

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Thursday won the by-elections on the NA-240 constituency of Karachi in a contest with very low voter turnout that was marred by violence. According to ...

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 ...

‘Runaway’ Girls and Their Rights In our zeal to protect victims of underage marriage, we should not ignore the societal circumstances that encourage children to flee their homes ...

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, ...

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 ...