Sharif calls for Taliban talks
By Newswires
May 20 2013
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif in his pre-parliamentary address in Lahore on Monday said that …
Communal parties rejected
By News Desk
May 20 2013
RELIGIOUS parties have generally failed to perform at the ballot box in Pakistan and their offshoots …
Unpacking the idea of “Islamophobia”
By MEREDITH TAX
May 20 2013
The term “Islamophobia” is everywhere, but its meanings work at cross purposes – to liberals, it refers …
Labour and Henry Jackson Society
By JAMES BLOODWORTH
May 20 2013
Ever since the Iraq war, and to a lesser extent prior to it, popular perception has had …
Pakistan: What “historic” elections?
By Pervez Hoodbhoy
May 20 2013
How will elections change this awful situation, especially since ethnic Baluch parties have done poorly? Talk of …
Novel Short Stories
By Janice Pariat
May 14 2013
If short stories are, as Alice Munro describes them, “worlds seen in a quick, glancing light” …
The world’s bravest democracy
By Murtaza Haider
May 13 2013
Pakistan may not be the world’s largest democracy, but is certainly the world’s bravest. Over 50 million …
Youth surge and Pakistani politics
By Shahid Javed Burki
May 13 2013
By the time this piece appears in print, Pakistan’s 40 to 50 million people would have …
A chat with Moni Mohsin
By Henna Butt
May 13 2013
Moni Mohsin’s vivacious protagonist, Butterfly, features in novels, Diary of a Social Butterfly and Tender Hooks based …
