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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pakistan began describing itself as an ideological state after the word had been made respectable by the Soviet Union through its planned economy and rapid growth. Ideology means the state has an idea ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters early on Monday protested in various cities of Pakistan, particularly Islamabad, over reports that party Chairman Imran Khan was facing arrest after being ...
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 ...
Salman Rashid’s new book pairs gorgeous photographs with little-known history in tribute to the grid that has long connected far-flung areas of Pakistan The extraordinary From Landi Kotal to Wagah ...
Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Tuesday rejected as “baseless and misguided” remarks issued by the spokesperson of the Indian External Affairs Ministry on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
SC Declares Pervez Elahi Punjab C.M. after Ruling Hamza Shehbaz’s Win ‘Illegal’ In verdict, Chief Justice of Pakistan says judges can adopt a ‘correct view’ of the law if they have taken a contrary ...