Manto and the Raj–I
by Raza Naeem “I am the trader of sighs To versify blood is my mission Remaining winds of the garden! Gather
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Wintering in Chitral Fort
Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir holds his Fort and offers a view of daily life in his winter refuge Even though
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The Central Asia collection at the British Library
Zaynab Mukhammad-Dost The Turkish and Turkic Collections at the British Library are the largest collections of manuscript and printed material
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Britain can’t be allowed to forget Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Hundreds of civilians were massacred by a British general who was later treated as a hero. There has still been
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Imran Khan: For raising expectations and not meeting them
By Osama Siddique First, both choices are rather toxic — fans, often abusive, show blind, cult-like devotion to ‘demigod’ Imran
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Asma’s legacy
Editorial IT is exactly a year ago that one of the bravest daughters of Pakistan, Asma Jahangir, passed away suddenly
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Govt forms committee on GB reforms
HAH Report Islamabad The government has formed a 10-member committee to examine the constitutional, governance and administrative reforms for Gilgit-Baltistan.
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The trouble with our honour
Mudabbir Ali Some say it is a year-old video. Be that as it may, the video came under spotlight of
Read MoreTruth and the media
Aziz Ali Dad ‘If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed but if you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.’—Mark Twain Asia
Read MoreSocial media uproar over women’s dance in Gilgit
By Sultan Abbas After the incidents of Punjab University and Peshawar University recently the vigilantism has reared its ugly head
Read MoreRiches from rags, Ahmed’s paintings a window to his past, reflection on relationships
By Farman Ali Islamabad, Oct 14: Artist and poet Ahmed Habib’s latest artwork is a self-reflection on relationships, inner conflicts,
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Poverty of aid: Academics question US, Pakistan’s elites’ development model
The American model for development after World War-II was utterly incongruent with the social, economic, political and institutional ground realities in Pakistan …For this very reason, American and Pakistan’s ruling elites’ solution of throwing money for the alleviation of poverty did not have much success,” Professor Nipa Banerjee, a senior fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences at the School of International Development and Global Studies at Ottawa University, Canada.
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Plan afoot to tame three flooding rivers thru cascading
Herald Report Islamabad: Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government is working on a proposal to control land erosion in three towns by cascading
Read MoreThinking in the age of unthought-I
Aziz Ali Dad In the world of ideas, thinking has a pivotal position because it is deemed to be the
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President Rahmon opens campus of first regional varsity in Tajikistan
News Desk In what a historic milestone, President Emomali Rahmon Friday (Sept 14) inaugurated the campus of University of
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