Why Malala matters: the Taliban's war on women continues

Terror tales revolve around the same stale rhetoric In a session at Karachi Literary Festival (KLF) correspondents of foreign media outlets were questioned about their obsession with the terror tales and news on militant organizations known to ...

Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) gather at the party headquarters after polling stations closed on election day in Lahore on Saturday. Reuters Faheem Al-Hamid Saudi Gazette/Okaz LAHORE Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif late ...

Mapping from Peshawar's NA-1 to Karachi's NA-248, Dawn.com takes a peek at some major national constituencies as election momentum builds with the polls only a day away. File photo Mapping from Peshawar's NA-1 to Karachi's NA-248, Dawn.com takes a ...

A lot will remain the sameTomorrow Pakistan will hold one of its most controversial elections. The irony is that this would happen under the country's first independent and powerful election commission and a consensus caretaker setup.The PPP, the ...

Islamabad: As Pakistan inches closer to electing a new government this weekend, the element of unpredictability continues to haunt the country's political landscape. What would have otherwise been a smooth return to power for two-time former Prime ...

In less than a week's time Pakistan reaches a historic milestone- we vote! One might be a little sceptical of how free and fair these upcoming elections might be, but regardless, this will definitely be an achievement for us as a nation and it will ...

We live in a world petrified by the monster of terrorism. This will obviously reflect in fiction too. And it's no surprise that Indian authors have jumped on to the terrorism bandwagon. The Dust Will Never Settle by Mukul Deva is about ...

Targeted relentlessly by the TTP, the ANP and PPP draw comfort from bad weather that will hinder other parties' campaigns. A man holds a gun on a roadside in Swat valley region. Tourism and agriculture, Swat's two economic pillars, have been ...

Apparently, nothing worth reporting to the media emerged from the Kayani-Karzai-Kerry meeting in the Brussels on Wednesday, hence the opaque comment of US Secretary of State John Kerry that 'results are what will tell the story, not statements'. The ...