By: RAM PUNIYANI Shashi Tharoor is a prolific writer-politician, whose recent book, ‘Why I am a Hindu’ is selling like hot cakes. In the book while on one side he...

By: Ali Akbar Natiq Every two weeks I travel from Lahore, where I teach Urdu literature at a university, to my village in Okara district of Punjab Province. The conversations,...

By: Ravi Arvind Palat U.S. President Donald Trump’s incendiary tour of Europe has justly generated extensive coverage for his disregard for diplomatic niceties and attacks on his allies, especially on...

By: Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)government has struck another blow against transparency and accountability. Its already negative track record — that has been marked by an...

By: Jatin Desai The assassination of Haroon Bilour in Pakistan’s Peshawar establishes that still Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has the capability to strike where it wants and kill people. Over the...

BY: Neera Chandhoke Though the phrase “history is written by the victors” is attributed to Winston Churchill, the origins of the catchphrase are lost in the mists of time. Professional...

By: Cyril Almeida HORROR in Mastung, farce in Punjab — one numbing and grotesque, the other familiar political confrontation. But that’s where the week has left us, so that’s where...

By: Sana Das Two cases of repatriation of Indian nationals, the first being 52-year-old Ismail Samma of Gujarat, and the second, of a sick 21-year-old, Jetendaera Arjanwara of Madhya Pradesh,...

By: Khaled Ahmed On Friday, June 6, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) predictably found the already dismissed prime minister Nawaz Sharif guilty and sentenced him to 10 years of rigorous...

By: Qazi Naveed The campaign of 2018 Presidential election was the bloodiest we have seen in decades. It is because one thirty individuals have been killed in recent times during...