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Ather Kamran Butt has set records and achieved great honours both nationally and internationally in the arena of...

Where ‘Knowledge’ is humble, sober, insightful and concerned with a search for truth, ‘Nowledge’ is instant,...

An exhibition in London celebrates the unsung East India Company School painters behind the works of fl ora, fauna...

“The poet was the most respectable member, sometimes leader, of the tribe.

What makes a university campus left wing or right wing?

A magical alchemy takes place when salt and wood smoke combine with fi sh. The warm smoke cooks the fish gently...

I am a 23-year-old girl and third-year student of law. I am stuck in a very complicated situation. I am in a

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What Qassem Soleimani's assassination means for the region

Saint, angel or prophet? The iconography of the green-clad guide associated with water survives on an island off Sukkur

The ICC Under-19 World Cup begins in South Africa from Jan 17. Eos takes a look at the event’s history and its impact on

The British wanted to get to Kandahar before the Russians. The legacy of that was a feat of engineering and the sleepy

With the arrival of the selfie, portraiture has undergone a noticeable change

Nurjehan Akhlaq uses archival photographs to explore various techniques of photography and the materiality of film

Since 1981, relations with Iran have remained tense and enigmatic, in contrast to their earlier unqualified warmth.

The parliament of Cliftonia passes a new set of constitutional amendments that it hopes will set the Republic apart

‘My brother believes educating women is useless’

Many gardeners only grow easily recognisable plant species. Try to cultivate something new and, then, eat it too

That bodies carry trauma I had always known, but that cities carry it too, I am learning the hard way

How Indian shelling at the LoC is impacting tourism in AJK

A dazzling collection by one of the best short story writers of our times combines the absurdity of a Coen brothers...

A translation of essays by one of the foremost Chinese writers in early 20th century adds a textured understanding to...

Ilhan Niaz’s latest book on the background dynamics of the British Raj provides valuable insights into today’s...

All characters are so palpable and identifiable in the context of Pakistan’s political history and sociology, that...

The language spoken in Baltistan is said to be directly descended from Old Tibetan, which was used throughout the

The Palestinian poet known the world over is Mahmoud Darwish. Among the major poetic voices of our times, it is in...

As the brother of former army chief Gen Asif Nawaz and a well-respected journalist and academic based in the United...

A solidly researched book on the relationship between the Pakistan Army and the United States offers a wealth of details

Had it not won the Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo’s novel would still have entered the literary canon based on its

Julian Barnes’s latest book is a groundbreaking, genre-bending biography which has the fascination of fiction and which

An astonishing novel that sets out to explore complex theories regarding the human experience shows that thought

Revisiting 1971 in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India shows how people remember the conflict and how states influence those

Muhammad Hafeez Khan’s latest work of fiction — a novel in the Seraiki language titled Adh Adhooray Lok [People...

A book that asks all the pertinent questions about euthanasia and more, but which is made special by its ability to

Long before the much-celebrated Latin American boom that is associated with the 1967 publication of One Hundred ...

An astonishingly epic debut novel is a masterful portrait of a country as well as a fitting epitaph for its gone-too

An autobiography by an exemplary bureaucrat offers tantalising glimpses into governance in Balochistan

A collection of articles written from 1990 to date, that chart the progress — or lack, thereof — in economic, social

Fatima Bhutto’s latest book is a thoughtful and entertaining look at how American pop culture has been displaced by new

A Pakistani novel explores a young man’s evolving relationship to his faith, but its complexity is let down by its