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Successive governments have been promising the public a change in the policing culture
There couldn’t have been a better time for Dr Riaz Shaikh to launch his book on student politics – for similarities between the 1950s and now...
In the past few weeks, Ansarul Islam, the volunteer force of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, has astonished many people in Pakistan. But such ...
Are Karachi’s administrative, civic and municipal affairs a federal domain, under Article 149 of the Constitution of Pakistan? Or are they just...
The recent agreement on mainstreaming madrassas between the federal government and the Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat-e-Madaris Pakistan has now reached the...
The recent kidnapping of the folksinger and his band has once again brought the menace of dacoit violence in northern Sindh to the fore
Why are Sindhi activists deserting nationalist politics?
The publication of one of the many jihadi newspapers, Zarb-e-Momin has stopped for reasons unknown. The big question is, will it re-emerge to spread...
Scholar Simon Wolfgang Fuchs in his recently published seminal work traces the rise of Shias in Pakistan
The transfer of three Karachi hospitals to the federal government continues the confusions over the 18th Amendment
