Taseer estate: Shan told to take complaint to police

Will he be able to stand up to the challenges? In the weeks leading up to Pakistan's most anticipated election, the notoriously unreliable polls in the country had gone haywire in their forecasts. Almost all polls had suggested that Nawaz Sharif, ...

The death penalty is irrevocable. Miscarriage of justice is possible even in the most judicially advanced countries My argument is that rope is not a social saviour. The modern and advanced capitalist country, Britain of continental Europe, ...

(The article was written before the May 11 elections.) Electioneering in Punjab is in full swing while elsewhere in Pakistan the campaign remains soaked in blood. The three secular political parties, the Awami National Party (ANP), Muttahida Qaumi ...

To wake up hammered, disoriented, with a headache in an unfamiliar place with a stranger on the side is unnerving. It might be exhilarating or it might be mortifying, yet it will almost always be a slightly nervous moment. That is how some will feel ...

A policeman carry election banner of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party tied to hot air balloons in Rajouri. Pakistan stands at the cliff-edge of Saturday's general elections with a fear of the unknown. With terrorist attacks almost every ...

Upcoming elections have been called the bloodiest ever, as political killings on a dizzying scale fuel mistrust and insecurity Politics in Pakistan is a dangerous game. As the country gears up for its first-ever democratic transition from one ...

IT is unfortunate that the stand-off between those demanding tougher legislation on blasphemy and the Bangladesh government has had such a violent outcome. For several weeks, the Hefazat-i-Islam — which draws support from the country's madressahs ...

LAHORE: Raja Riaz, former leader of opposition in Punjab Assembly, has said in a statement on Tuesday that the Sharif brothers were losing ground among the people with every passing day as their credentials as believers in democracy were becoming ...

With the death of Syed Abbas Athar, group editor of the Daily Express , a historic chapter in Pakistan journalism has come to an end. He was laid to rest on May 6th leaving behind hundreds of thousands of mourners . More fondly known as Shah ji in ...