ISLAMABADISLAMABAD — The outrage was swift after Pakistani security forces shot dead an unarmed young man in the southern city of Karachi, an incident caught on videotape and broadcast widely.

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

ISLAMABAD — The outrage was swift after Pakistani security forces shot dead an unarmed young man in the southern city of Karachi, an incident caught on videotape and broadcast widely. Editorial ...

Pakistan is often described as a poetic nation, and not without reason. Urdu poetry circulates with ease across class, region, and generation. Verses are memorised, quoted, sung, reposted, and ...

A 20th-century poetic genius wrote about his people's struggles with modernity, ignorance, freedom and discrimination. Some of his popular poems were turned into songs and introduced generations of ...

After 1857, British imperialist colonialism asserted itself with full vigour in the Indo-Pak subcontinent and justified its rule and power by taking control of the social institutions. For example, ...

All Things Pakistan has a great post on rediscovering Sufi poetry through contemporary singers and bands. There is an interesting discussion in the comments space on translations and the message of ...

LAHORE, PAKISTAN — Cut off from the world, even in parts of his own home, Aitzaz Ahsan did what many of his compatriots do in times of personal and political crisis: He wrote a poem. Months of house ...