It is unwise to put deadlines on military campaigns against hardened hoodlums, especially if they are heavily funded, marvelously trained in guerilla warfare, and what is more, are driven by a fanatical sense of religious commitment to the cause of mayhem and murder..................detail

At 10:20 a.m. on May 27, Khaver Abbas, a 25-year-old constable of the Lahore police, was guarding the Rescue 15 building when an unmarked white van pulled up to the security gate, about 10 feet from where he was standing.............detail

If there is one thing in common between the military dispensation and the present civilian democracy, it is that both started on the right track in Balochistan. .......detail

In October 2002, the Musharraf government introduced a National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee Ordinance 2002 (No LXXI). Under the ordinance, a National Judicial Committee, headed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court,........detail

Ever since she was a little girl, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy knew that she had something to say. She saw stories around her that she felt should be told and faces that needed to be given a voice. In fact, she began expressing this simmering disquiet with the social injustices that stare us in the face.........detail

Taimur Rahman of Laal is a musician, academic and activist. As a teenager, he was involved in theatre and worked simultaneously as a director, producer and actor. His plays included Miss Saigon (adaptation of the famous Broadway musical); RAW (an original pantomime); And You Are Mine (an anti-fascist rock opera..........detail