The writer is an Islamabad-based journalist, researcher and media trainer. A former Daniel Pearl/AFPP fellow, he shared in The LA Times’ 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. He tweets @AounSahi
The May 11 rally of the PTI at D Chowk in Islamabad was oh-so-filmi in the way it put out its angry, not-so-young hero, his aides , interspersed...
Natural gas was discovered in Zarghun gas field -- located 57 kilometres North East of Quetta in Harnai district -- in 1998 by a British gas and oil...
The assassination attempt on Hamid Mir on April 19 in Karachi and the following claim of his brother, Amir Mir, live on Geo, that the ISI was behind...
Till mid-March Faraz Ullah Khan was enthusiastic at the prospects of a bumper wheat crop this year. His hopes were destroyed by untimely long spell...
Afghan Basti, an ‘illegal’ slum in sector I-11, is named after the Afghan refugees who started settling there in 1979 during and after...
The indictment of Pervez Musharraf in treason case by a special court on March 31, 2014 was a defining day in the country’s history, according...
Zareena Kakar, 35, was the first woman from her village to start a job as a lady health visitor 16 years back. It may be a normal activity for...
On March 15, 2014, hundreds of people attacked a temple and set it on fire in Larkana, Sindh, following rumours that a Hindu man had desecrated the...
"Treat us with respect, consider us human beings, we do not hate Pakistan but we do not like your establishment’s treatment of Baloch," says...
Over the past few months, several high-level dignitaries of Saudi Arabia, including Saudi Foreign Minister, Saud Al-Faisal and Crown Prince Salman...
Mubashir Akram, an Islamabad-based political communication specialist and director of Shaoor Foundation for Education and Awareness, an NGO, thinks...
More than 120 children have reportedly died in Thar Desert of Sindh province because of malnutrition and disease over a period of three months. This...
A little over a week after Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had termed Islamabad a "very secure" city, armed men stormed the district...
About a month ago, a 50-minute-long video message by the TTP created panic among Kalash and Ismaili communities living in Chitral. "By the grace of...
Sheikh Abdul Hameed, a 59-year-old resident of Al-Fazal Town in Bhalwal tehsil of Sargodha district, has started getting clean drinking water at his...
The day Dr Abdul Malik Baloch was nominated for the slot of chief minister of Balochistan on June 4, 2013, he said that people in 29 out of 30...
The peace talks, so far, seems to have achieved one goal -- they have mainstreamed the narrative of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Pakistan. The TTP...
For Masi Hani, 50, mother of five who lives in a one-room house in village Talho Khan Bhurghi in district Badin, the Benazir Income Support...
Peace committees formed by the government and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have taken an interesting path to start negotiations. First, it was the...
President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, promulgated the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance 2014 on January 23. One of the reasons being cited for...
