By: Rashid Paul Srinagar, Feb 27: The J&K High Court on Tuesday granted three weeks time to Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA) for finalization of the Master Plan for the famed...

By: Manzoor Gilani Current Prime Minister (PM) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Raja Farooq Haider Khan, recently stirred up a debate related to directives issued by Pakistan PM Shahid...

By: Pratap Bhanu Mehta Corruption and plutocracy were major issues in the 2014 election. Those issues helped delegitimise the UPA government. It is now worth asking how they are going...

By: Marwan Asmar Why is Israel, a powerful military power, afraid of a 17-year-old girl? Ahed Tamimi, currently languishing in one of its prisons, embroiled in a trial that could...

By: Jawed Naqvi SHE saw herself as an actor in the south, but as a show thing in the north. “In Tamil films they love to see me act naturally....

By: DWIGHT GARNER The Dutch-born historian and New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma spent several years in Tokyo when he was in his early 20s, and he picked...

While a concerted effort is being made to muzzle the voices of dissent – otherwise the life blood of democracy – the institutions, which were until recently seen as great...

Last Friday the global money-laundering watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided to put Pakistan on its terrorist financing watch list. The placement will come into effect from June this...

By: S Y Quraishi The office of profit issue keeps coming up every now and then and leaves behind several questions. The most recent case pertains to appointments made by...

BY: Tariq Bashir A highly successful barrister in his early forties – known for his icy and incisive demeamour and having a dashingly impressive personality – was making waves in...