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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readers send in photograph of heritage sites from Pakistan. Pakistan is host to a number of world heritage sites, dating back centuries. The Swat Valley, for instance, is the centre of the ancient ...