By: Khaled Ahmed Pakistan says it is an ideological state but when heavily bearded, rotten-toothed, medieval-looking Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi comes out of his lair in Sial Sharif, Sargodha, Punjab, it...

When Nigerian writer Abubakar Dam Ibrahim published his first novel in 2015, he was prepared for a fatwa against it. The Season of Crimson Blossoms, featuring a 55-year-old Muslim widow’s...

IT is unfortunate that a question concerning the probity of public life should have become entangled in the cold war which the Narendra Modi government has launched against all non-BJP-ruled...

Srinagar: A Special Police Officer (SPO)  was injured in Zainapora area of Shopian district in the southern part of Kashmir due to an accidental fire from his own service rifle,...

BY: Aditya Sinha India is seized with another banking scam. At the centre is Punjab National Bank (PNB), a nationalised bank. The culprit is diamond jeweller (or, as he prefers,...

BY: JENNIFER SZALAI Amy Chua has Donald J. Trump’s number. Not literally (I’m guessing), but unlike some of her elite peers at Yale University, where she teaches law, Chua isn’t...

BY: Akeel Rashid Nowadays when it comes to heading a household or a business establishment by a woman, it is a peculiar thing to witness for the people in our...

BY: Rashid Paul Srinagar, Feb 22: The J&K High Court on Thursday directed eviction of mainstream political activists “illegally occupying” government accommodations in Jammu on the pretext of militant threats....

BY: I.A. Rehman THE almost daily exchange of fire across the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, in the Kashmir and Punjab sectors, with growing losses of life and...

BY: MUBASHIR IQBAL KITABA Khalid bin Waleed (RA) was born in a highly respected family of Banu Makhzum of the tribe of Qureysh in Makkah in nearly 585 AD. His...