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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday issued its detailed judgment—spanning 111 pages—on the reasons behind its decision to set aside the April 3 ruling by then-National Assembly Deputy Speaker ...

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 ...

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 ...

British author Salman Rushdie, whose Satanic Verses led to a fatwa against him from Iran, is currently on a ventilator and will likely lose an eye after being stabbed ahead of a literary event in New ...

The Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Tuesday formally approved ongoing peace talks between the military and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and approved the formation of a ...

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 ...

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 ...