Malala Yousafzai: Owning the narrative

Ostracising the young woman will bring no good to Pakistanis     2014 is the year Pakistan gets its second ever Nobel Prize winner. 2014 is the...

Malala Yousafzai — Timeline

July 12, 1997 Born Malala was born on 12 July 1997 in Pakistan's Swat Valley. She was named after a Pashtun poetess, and her name means...

‘We have done our homework’

INTERVIEW: Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo PPP Punjab President   PPP is hard at work in Punjab, planning for something!     These are definitely interesting time for the Peoples Party in...

White Lies

Former President Musharraf seems to be living it up one more time. He’s sitting pretty in Karachi, meeting friends, playing bridge, even enjoying the...

From the Bazaar to Wall Street

Documentary Review Exploring Islamic finance     In the wake of the recent financial crisis of 2008, the western world became aware of an alternative financial system in...

List of people who deserve Nobel Peace Prize more than Malala

A comprehensive list of all those people who should have won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but didn’t owing to a Zionist conspiracy   So...

Masses prepare themselves to disown Malala

Our Staff Reporter - Lahore/Karachi/Islamabad/Peshawar: Pakistan is ready to disown its latest Nobel laureate, after Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday along...

White Lies

These sit-ins must have run into some money. Not just the Islamabad gatherings, but PTI taking to the road again; Karachi, Lahore, Mianwali, with...

The missing roots

Political parties in Pakistan routinely fail to represent the people at the grass-root level   Pakistan’s missing grass-root level political activism could verily be the reason...

The great disconnect

Between the rulers and the ruled   With Imran Khan and Tahir-ul- Qadri joining the electoral fray they would give the PML-N and PPP a run...

Too little, too late

PPP distanced itself from the grass-root     In an open letter to his party workers, the co-chairman of the Pakistan’s People’s Party, Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,...

‘Afghans are very angry with Pakistan’

INTERVIEW: Ahmad Rashid  An old hand explains the new great game     It’s for a good reason that Ahmad Rashid’s 2000 book, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and...

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Book Review: Who Speaks for Islam?

What a Billion Muslims Really Think   It had never been done before, and hardly a few believed that it really can be done. But Gallup...

The life changing petrol price reduction

A list of things that you can do from the Rs2.94 you will save on every litre of petrol   After Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority’s...

Javed Hashmi told he was fired, can’t resign

Our Staff Reporter - Islamabad: Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) President Javed Hashmi, has been categorically told by the party that he cannot resign from his...

After Waziristan

Zarb-e-Azb headed to Punjab and Balochistan?     Journalists knew independent coverage of Zarb-e-Azb was out of the question, not just because of the logistics. And so...