Stories by Syed Irfan Ashraf
16 federal ministers, 3 advisers to PM, 5 SAPMs enlisted; Shamshad Akhtar named finance minister, Jalil Abbas made foreign minister.
Updated 18 Aug, 2023 08:15am
The swelling ranks of exiled Afghan journalists are going to be a serious challenge for the Taliban rule.
Updated 17 Mar, 2022 09:16am
Cultural terrorism symbolises and extends a space which thrives on real violence.
Updated 17 Feb, 2022 01:24pm
‘Which Taliban are you asking about? Inside our houses or outside?’
Updated 21 Jan, 2022 07:21am
Dictators have loyally defended US regional interests at the cost of local Pakhtuns.
Updated 06 Jan, 2022 07:36am
Internet services in ex-Fata are still considered a ‘security risk’ and are, therefore, denied.
Published 10 Dec, 2021 07:22am
Unpaid for months, professors, doctors and engineers are selling edibles and household items by the roadside.
Updated 26 Nov, 2021 08:33am
The lethal interplay of ideology and technology has a role in Afghanistan’s turf war.
Updated 11 Nov, 2021 09:01am
The fencing of the Pak-Afghan border is causing economic and social devastation.
Updated 29 Oct, 2021 08:35am
They have lost the most in the ‘war on terror’. Why then is the PM painting Pakhtuns as a nation of holy warriors?
Updated 15 Oct, 2021 08:31am
Just as an imperialist war brings its own culture and economy, so too does it create its own journalism.
Published 27 Sep, 2021 07:41am
Journalists are caught between the TTP and the state.
Updated 16 Sep, 2021 09:21am
IS the turf war within the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan an outcome of muscle-flexing or a shift in the militancy...
Published 19 May, 2014 06:50am
AFTER several days of sustained air strikes against militants’ hideouts in the tribal belt and adjacent settled...
Published 10 Mar, 2014 07:49am
WHY would the Taliban try to recruit insiders from the ranks of journalists? This was the first question that came ...
Published 15 Feb, 2014 06:37am
THE Dera Ismail Khan jailbreak was alarming. But the government’s response was equally embarrassing.
Over 100...
Updated 17 Aug, 2013 07:57am
ON television, a couple of celebrity anchors were discussing the rising tide of conspiracy theories in Pakistan. One...
Published 23 Jul, 2013 07:19am
TO borrow an idea from sociologist Victor Burner, terrorism in Pakistan has become a social drama. Almost every...
Published 08 Jul, 2013 04:54am
IN his first press conference after winning the elections last month, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Pervez...
Published 18 Jun, 2013 05:02am
WITH a congressional hearing in the United States on the drone issue set for April 23, some groups in that country are making efforts to create a consensus for bringing an end to drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere.
Published 22 Apr, 2013 05:10am
