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Theoretical physicist Riazuddin died in September. Pity no one noticed. When Riazuddin—that was his full name—died in September at age 82 in Islamabad, international science organizations extolled his ...
In Urdu Poetry: The Progressive Episode (OUP 2017), author Carlo Coppola tells us about the life of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. A Professor Emeritus of Hindi-Urdu and linguistics at Oakland University, Rochester ...
The construction of the long-delayed Diamer-Bhasha Dam risks drowning centuries’ worth of carvings and inscriptions, representing ancient cultures and civilizations Last month, Prime Minister Imran ...
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, ...
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 ...
On March 12, 2019, the former Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, Ameena Sayyid, posted on Facebook a message from Dorothy Wolpert, wife of writer-author Stanley Wolpert: “I ...
A new book of essays edited by parliamentarian Sherry Rehman offers insight into the past, present and future of the country’s women’s rights movement Womansplaining: Navigating Activism, Politics and ...
Leaked audio-tapes of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders allegedly discussing means to withdraw commitments of the provincial governments of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from the federal ...
The country’s past, as detailed in a new book, is replete with people such as Dr. Mubarak Ali who resisted the national narrative When you write about Pakistan, the uppermost feeling that guides you ...
Pakistani writing in English is attracting ever-increasing attention, both in Pakistan and the West. This might seem to be a self-explanatory category, comprising writing produced in English by ...
The state of Pakistan and its inhabitants owe a debt of gratitude to Aga Khan III for his contributions to its development In his well-documented book, A Leadership Odyssey: Muslim Separatism and ...
India, eyeing the Russian S-400 Triumf long-range, anti-aircraft system since 2015, has finally signed a $5.4-billion deal for the system. The purchase has sharply increased the conventional military ...