The flipside of the 1965 war
The most far reaching consequence of the war was the wide-scale economic slowdown in Pakistan
The 1965 war was imposed on the people of Pakistan...
Shifting paradigms: Disintegrating Indo-Pak ties
History keeps repeating itself and diplomacy keeps failing
War is not the answer. Modern nation-states cannot fight full-scale military battles, and independent nuclear states cannot...
Pakistan, India and their everlasting antagonism
Why can’t the two nations just get along?
Ever since their inception Pakistan and India have continued to enjoy their perpetual stay at the loggerheads...
Pak-India relations
Swinging between half-hearted negotiations and menacing moves
Ever since the inception, Pakistan and India seem to be preoccupied with each other. India especially seems to...
Interview: ‘Once you’re up the escalation ladder, there is no end’ — Khurshid Mahmud...
In my experience, they are as Pakistan-centric as we are India-centric
As a former student of political science, I was no stranger to the career...
Kasera Bazaar
The antiques hub
The Walled City of Lahore is not just about the buildings and architecture. It has much more to offer in its markets...
Now, anything less than actual pig-meat won’t shock restaurant-goers, laments Ayesha Mumtaz
Lahore - Our Food Correspondent: Speaking to reporters from her office in Lahore, a visibly disturbed Ayesha Mumtaz, Director of the Punjab Food Authority...
Real life Bajrangi Bhaijaan never makes it past stage where host’s daughter says she...
"They beat the crap out of me"
Bombay - Our Bollywood Correspondent: Pawan Chatturvedi, the real life Bajrangi Bhaijan that the Bollywood film of the...
We even won the 1971 war, nation’s education boards decide
Islamabad – Our Jingoistic Correspondent: At a meeting of a confederation of the nation's boards of secondary and intermediate education, it was decided that...
Pakistan’s foreign policy conundrums
Not all bad news?
After seesawing over dialogue with India for the umpteenth time Pakistan is indeed back to square one. It’s doing no better...
Diplomacy – regional currents and cross currents
Looking for the silver lining
Pakistan’s standing in the comity of nations is at a historical low currently. The seventh nuclear power in the world...
N in a foreign policy pothole
The black, white and grey of it
As if there weren’t enough internal pressure, now Nawaz must wade through a foreign policy maze as well....
Interview: ‘Pak-Afghan entente must be salvaged, protected’ –Ambassador (retd) Masood Khan
We will keep the moral high ground with regard to India
To say Pakistan faces a number of foreign policy challenges amounts to stating the...
Modern Pakistani fiction in English
Both debut female authors are engaged in careers seemingly antithetical, though verily not alien, to the exigencies of a literary vocation
Two debut novels in...
Dolat Khana-e-Khas-o-Aam
A majesty lost
Splendour floats in every nook and corner of Lahore Fort but much saddened with the dust of negligence! The remains of the...
Mark Zuckerberg be made election commissioner, PTI demands
Karachi - our PTI correspondent: At a press conference in Karachi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan made a formal request for Facebook CEO...
Local tax-defaulter vows to defend Pakistan against Indian aggression
Lahore - Our Lahori Correspondent: Lahori businessman and tax defaulter, Saeed Ahmed Butt, vowed on Saturday to defend his motherland against the nefarious designs...
