An Incident to Remember Over two decades later, the 1999 ‘honor killing’ of Samia Sarwar remains a blot on Pakistan’s claims of equal rights for women ...

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 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 ...

In his books on Pakistan and India, the American historian, who died aged 91, had much knowledge to impart On March 12, 2019, the former Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, ...

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Gen. Michael E. Kurilla on Thursday met Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa and acknowledged the Pakistan Army’s efforts in fighting terrorism ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Afghanistan: Charisma and Corruption The rise and fall of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president who ruled the country for 13 years ...

‘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 ...

Despite lip-service for equal treatment from nearly all governments, past and present, minorities in Pakistan continue to struggle for their civil rights in all aspects of their lives. The problem is ...