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 ...

The Prime Minister of Pakistan needs to convene an emergency NCA meeting to discuss the threat and work out responses India, eyeing the Russian S-400 Triumf long-range, anti-aircraft system since 2015 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minority lawmakers protest decision, stressing this move risks making life a ‘living hell’ for non-Muslims in Pakistan The Parliamentary Committee to Protect Minorities from Forced Conversions on ...

In her 2011 book, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan, Saadia Toor narrates an incident from 1999 at the office of Lahore’s “women lawyers” Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani, ...

Two recent books shed new light on the Bhutto family, highlighting the former prime minister’s life against the backdrop of Pakistan’s history In The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir ...

Urging people to refrain from commenting on Pakistan’s nuclear program, the top military official said that only the National Command Authority had the mandate to comment on the country’s strategic ...

In Urdu Poetry: The Progressive Episode (OUP 2017), author Carlo Coppola tells us about the life of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. A Professor Emeritus of Hindi-Urdu and linguistics at Oakland University, Rochester ...