The author is a freelance journalist and a previous member of staff. She tweets @JMaham
Since drone strikes have killed prominent TTP leaders one after the other, the state now acts from a position of strength
In summers once a week, we would forget all else; tuck our long, loose shirts into our pants and run into the waves, daring them to try and take us
How are blasphemy trials conducted? Challenges for the accused, lawyers, and judges
There is a subtle difference between disallowing your child to go to school, and your realities not allowing you to send your child to school
Family members refuse to recognise signs and symptoms due to ignorance, stigma and denial
Violence in the Punjab University, as anywhere else, is a sign of political change
What do we think our population is?
Conversation with Zarminae Ansari on the 'Joy of Urdu' project
Little thought is spared for the physically unharmed survivors of a blast
Unless Pakistan reimagines its foreign policy, and finds sustainable solutions to befriend its neighbours, it will keep helping terrorists do their...
A terrorist strike in the heart of Lahore may have exposed the state’s vulnerabilities but it must now alert us to how exposed the police is in...
It’s impossible to explain to Pakistanis why one would choose to vacation in this ‘den of crime’
Khabaristan Times has been taken off the internet. Who knows it may reappear as the charity wing of the banned website
-- Zeba Sathar, demographer, Country Director Population Council Pakistan
The targeting of local non-governmental organisations across the country is hardly an unprecedented phenomenon
Why are 70 per cent of prisoners in Pakistan’s jails still waiting to be heard?
Mehlab Jameel is a researcher and an activist who is currently training to be an anthropologist
Sitting in my car waiting for traffic to start moving again, I’d see many things float by in the rainwater: the CM’s promises of free-flowing...
What has the parliamentary committee for electoral reforms achieved in the last two years?
Jamil Akhtar’s discipline in training and caring for his 35 dogs is legendary. The ‘sport’ he makes them play may be contentious
