Pakistan today stands on the brink, and the coalition government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has to pull it back. And quickly. The start isn't spectacular but it is promising. Having secured a historic unanimous vote of confidence, .................detail

   
 

Reports that the MQM is joining the ruling alliance comes as good news. Very few people were sure that the new government, especially in Sindh, could have survived for long without partnering with the ethnic party representing the mohajirs of urban Sindh. .....detail

   
 

When Pakistan Peoples Party parliamentarian Dr Fehmida Mirza took oath as the speaker of the National Assembly on March 19, 2008, she made world headlines as she is the first woman to earn this distinction in Pakistan and in the Muslim world.,...........detail

   
 

No one knows better than the subcontinent, the power of the family drama. It presides over ordinary lives. It dominates the big screen and the small, and it certainly straddles the political theatre on a scale which makes a tele-dynasty look like a mohalla picnic. ....detail

   
 

Indian squadron leader Veer Pratap Singh was caught on suspicion of spying in Lahore when he came to visit the love of his life - Zara Hayat Khan, a Pakistani national. Determined not to disclose the identity of his love, Veer spent the following 22 years in a Pakistani jail.........detail

   
 

The director's bug bit Mehreen Jabbar way back in her school days. She would round up her friends and put together eighties-inspired music videos and short skits filmed with a wobbly hand-held camera. Coming from a home in which film-making was appreciated and encouraged (her father Javed Jabbar is one of the pioneers of advertising in Pakistan.,.............detail

 

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