The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977 (Routledge 2018) by Salman Rafi Sheikh is clearly the most comprehensive and penetrating study of what the state of ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday reiterated his accusations of ‘bias’ against Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and warned of civil unrest if the incumbent ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday renewed his allegations of the “neutrals”—his euphemism for the military establishment—being responsible for a “crackdown” against his ...

Rebuilding Pak-China Ties through CPEC A Baloch separatist-claimed suicide attack targeting Chinese nationals in Karachi has triggered fresh crises for the multibillion-dollar project ...

Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo on Tuesday announced that the provincial government had formed a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe reports of security forces opening fire on ...

Mahmood Ali Ayub and Syed Turab Hussain have put together Candles in the Dark: Successful Organizations in Pakistan’s Weak Organizational Environment (OUP 2016), giving insight into the objective ...

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Sunday emerged the clear winner in the first phase of local government elections—conducted in 14 districts—in Sindh province according to unofficial and unverified ...

Afghanistan: Charisma and Corruption The rise and fall of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president who ruled the country for 13 years ...

Linus Strothmann of the Institute for Geographical Sciences, Freie Universitat, Berlin, has written a book on Lahore’s most beloved saint, Data Sahib Ali Hujwiri Ganj Baksh—popularly known as just ...

On Aug. 1, 2022, a U.S. drone strike killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. President Joe Biden, in a televised address, said that Zawahiri had “carved a trail of murder ...

The military’s media wing on Friday condemned a social media campaign that had emerged after the crash of a Pakistan Army helicopter in Balochistan, resulting in the martyrdom of six military ...

Pakistani film Joyland on Friday won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, making history by becoming the first movie from Pakistan to not only compete at the prestigious event, but also win ...