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 ...

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 ...

In her 2011 book, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan, Saadia Toor narrates an incident from 1999 at the office of Lahore’s “women lawyers” Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani, ...

Pakistan on Sunday described as “highly regrettable” accusations made by Afghanistan Acting Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob regarding the use of Pakistan’s airspace by U.S. drones, adding such ...

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 ...

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail slammed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Jhagra on Monday, accusing him of lying to the public by claiming a letter in which Peshawar had said it cannot commit ...

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 ...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday declared an emergency in Swat as flooding in the district caused several buildings to collapse and stranded local residents without aid. In a notification, ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday confirmed the reversal of a fixed tax on retailers—imposed in the federal budget for the ongoing fiscal year—and announced the waiver of fuel adjustment ...

Floods Continue to Wreak Havoc in Pakistan Damage to Munda Headworks threatens Nowshera, Charsadda, as authorities urge locals to evacuate to safety ...

In his books on Pakistan and India, the American historian, who died aged 91, had much knowledge to impart On March 12, 2019, the former Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, ...

Investigation finds accused had been using a “guest house” to lure victims, filming their sexual assault, and silencing them with threats of blackmail Police in Islamabad have arrested four people—and ...