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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday confirmed that the U.K. has inked a deal allowing the extradition of “criminals” and “immigration offenders” from Britain to Pakistan. “I’m proud to ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday confirmed the reversal of a fixed tax on retailers—imposed in the federal budget for the ongoing fiscal year—and announced the waiver of fuel adjustment ...

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 ...

The ruling coalition on Friday slammed the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s attempt to jeopardize the IMF loan program” mere days before the global lender’s Executive Board is set to meet ...

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday reiterated that Pakistan cannot afford to give any petroleum subsidies for consumers in future, stressing the conditions set forth by the International ...