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How did Pakistani society come to accept for 11 years the draconian and ill-intentioned laws and ordinances... Published 20 Sep, 2020 07:00am

A repressed past that is not fully understood, eventually re-emerges as an unresolved entity. Updated 13 Sep, 2020 09:43am

Karachi’s problems of infrastructure can be traced back to its very sudden transformation into a major city. Updated 06 Sep, 2020 09:38am

Religio-political parties have always struggled to command any significant chunk of the Pakistani vote bank. Updated 30 Aug, 2020 09:58am

Challenged by Turkey’s ‘neo-Ottomanism’, Saudi Arabia is struggling to revive King Faisal’s reformist ideas. Updated 23 Aug, 2020 10:29am

From 1971 onwards, school textbooks in the country have increasingly promoted an artificial national and sectarian homogeneity. Published 16 Aug, 2020 09:44am

From 1971 onwards, school textbooks in the country have increasingly promoted an artificial national and sectarian homogeneity. Updated 16 Aug, 2020 09:43am

Since the 1980s, Sindh has seen radicalisation and militancy challenging the deep-rooted Sufist creed of the province. Updated 09 Aug, 2020 09:46am

The concept of the modern state is a fairly recent European construct and has been borrowed to project an ahistoric... Updated 31 Jul, 2020 07:29am

According to Orwell, the poor were simply interested in improving their lives with better pay and conditions.  Updated 26 Jul, 2020 09:11am

Turkey’s decision to restore Hagia Sophia's status as a mosque fits in with an old trend of using religion to for political ends. Updated 19 Jul, 2020 09:18am

The discord between state and clerics over the sighting of the moon to determine the beginning of Islamic lunar months... Published 12 Jul, 2020 06:59am

With intensifying economic and political tensions and polarisation, the nature of internal conflicts in societies is evolving... Updated 05 Jul, 2020 02:35pm

The more Tariq Aziz was pushed in the background by new realities, the more he was parodied by comedians and, later, in Published 28 Jun, 2020 06:56am

Denial, panic, scapegoating and ultimate sense are the usual way societies have dealt with new diseases throughout. Updated 28 Jun, 2020 02:31pm

Impacted by the growth of the 'politics of identity' in the US, the children grew up looking for their roots. But instead of finding these roots in Pakistan, as such, the children were actually handed explanations in this context by Islamist evangelical o Published 24 Jun, 2020 04:01pm

Is populism a problem? Most political scientists seem to think so. Updated 14 Jun, 2020 09:24am

Who are the ‘parrhay likhay jaahil’ everyone seems to keep talking about? Updated 07 Jun, 2020 08:48am

After romancing the Arabs, we are now viewing our Muslim character through Ottoman lenses, quite forgetting that... Published 31 May, 2020 01:36pm

Instead of aiding the judiciary to come to a middle-ground, judicial activism has broken away and sprinted towards populism. Updated 25 May, 2020 08:08am