Many Pakistanis think that Salam was opposed to making the bomb. Some say he played no role in it. This is wrong—he did want Pakistan to have the bomb, but felt that he had more important things to do ...

British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday confirmed that the U.K. has inked a deal allowing the extradition of “criminals” and “immigration offenders” from Britain to Pakistan. “I’m proud to ...

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 ...

‘Runaway’ Girls and Their Rights In our zeal to protect victims of underage marriage, we should not ignore the societal circumstances that encourage children to flee their homes ...

An Incident to Remember Over two decades later, the 1999 ‘honor killing’ of Samia Sarwar remains a blot on Pakistan’s claims of equal rights for women ...

Despite lip-service for equal treatment from nearly all governments, past and present, minorities in Pakistan continue to struggle for their civil rights in all aspects of their lives. The problem is ...

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 ...

Leaked audio-tapes of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders allegedly discussing means to withdraw commitments of the provincial governments of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from the federal ...

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday warned of legal proceedings, including registration of cases, arrests and even “blocking” of identity cards and passports, against anyone proven to be ...

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

Inside Pakistan’s most dangerous neighborhood. It was a public execution unprecedented in its brutality even by Karachi’s own gruesome standards. The criminal who had been lording over Lyari, the city ...

Gen. Ziaul Haq’s spy chief among ‘hundreds’ of Pakistanis allegedly identified in ‘Suisse secrets’ expose of secret Swiss accounts The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a ...