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, ...

A new book explores how books and libraries have been targeted throughout history to suppress knowledge and push particular ideologies Richard Ovenden, the senior executive of the Bodleian Libraries, ...

The construction of the long-delayed Diamer-Bhasha Dam risks drowning centuries’ worth of carvings and inscriptions, representing ancient cultures and civilizations Last month, Prime Minister Imran ...

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 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 ...

Leaked audio-tapes of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders allegedly discussing means to withdraw commitments of the provincial governments of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from the federal ...

A new book of essays edited by parliamentarian Sherry Rehman offers insight into the past, present and future of the country’s women’s rights movement Womansplaining: Navigating Activism, Politics and ...

The country’s past, as detailed in a new book, is replete with people such as Dr. Mubarak Ali who resisted the national narrative When you write about Pakistan, the uppermost feeling that guides you ...

India, eyeing the Russian S-400 Triumf long-range, anti-aircraft system since 2015, has finally signed a $5.4-billion deal for the system. The purchase has sharply increased the conventional military ...

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail slammed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Jhagra on Monday, accusing him of lying to the public by claiming a letter in which Peshawar had said it cannot commit ...

Journalist Kim Ghattas’s look at the ongoing impact of the Islamic world’s ‘religious renaissance’ of the 1970s has lessons to impart In Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That ...

In Urdu Poetry: The Progressive Episode (OUP 2017), author Carlo Coppola tells us about the life of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. A Professor Emeritus of Hindi-Urdu and linguistics at Oakland University, Rochester ...