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 ...

India, eyeing the Russian S-400 Triumf long-range, anti-aircraft system since 2015, has finally signed a $5.4-billion deal for the system. The purchase has sharply increased the conventional military ...

A new book explores how books and libraries have been targeted throughout history to suppress knowledge and push particular ideologies Richard Ovenden, the senior executive of the Bodleian Libraries, ...

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 ...

The country’s past, as detailed in a new book, is replete with people such as Dr. Mubarak Ali who resisted the national narrative When you write about Pakistan, the uppermost feeling that guides you ...

Pakistan’s women rights movement has a long and storied history, with one of the best scholarly works on it being found in Tahmina Rashid’s 2006 Contested Representation: Punjabi Women in Feminist ...

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 ...

A new book of essays edited by parliamentarian Sherry Rehman offers insight into the past, present and future of the country’s women’s rights movement Womansplaining: Navigating Activism, Politics and ...

Floods Continue to Wreak Havoc in Pakistan Damage to Munda Headworks threatens Nowshera, Charsadda, as authorities urge locals to evacuate to safety ...

Christopher Jaffrelot’s book, The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience (2015), is a remarkable diagnostic of the ailing state of Pakistan. In addition to the perennial perils of Islamism and ...

The office of Qatar’s leader on Wednesday confirmed the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) plans to invest $3 billion in Pakistan to help support its economy. “The Qatar Investment Authority announced ...

The Iranian icon advocated progressivism despite opposition from the forces of the shah and the clergy Abbas Amanat, professor of history at Yale University, has penned the monumental 979-page Iran: A ...