Mohsin Hamid's 2007 novel "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is, for my money, one of the finest novels of the past 10 years. Its young Pakistani narrator, on the rise in America in the first years of the ...

The year 2020 marked a pivotal moment for publishing in Pakistan. As a consequence of the 2019 Pulwama attack, all trade with India was banned, including the import of books. This was a big blow for ...

In the preface to his masterpiece of poetry, Madojazr-i-Islam [Flow and Ebb of Islam], the acclaimed Urdu poet Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali writes that everything — even poetry — gets divided into ...

Shaikh is an Associate Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House Few will have missed the bitter irony of a court ruling against Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, who was found ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Pakistan is pleased to announce the 5th edition of the annual Bilingual Essay Writing Competition. The topic for this year's competition is "Social ...

A collection of essays on cinema in Pakistan edited by Vazira Zamindar and Asad Ali includes pieces on its troubled history, its iconic cinema halls, and the impact of the blockbuster Maula Jatt 2022 ...

ICRC (Islamabad) – At an award ceremony today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced the winners of its Essay Competition for 2016. The meeting was attended by Mr Zafarullah ...

It depends on from whose standpoint you perceive India in Pakistan — hawks or doves, religious extremists or moderates, nationalists or internationalists. Despite being part of the Indian subcontinent ...

This book identifies and analyses the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture and saying ‘stop’ to the violent extremism that has ...