The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
The PTI government assumed power in 2018 with unbounded optimism and fierce ambition. Ultimately it is proving to be the most regressive government...
Pakistan is home to over 70 languages. Some ten of them are widely spoken; the remaining ones are struggling to survive. In the north of Pakistan,...
If you have ever worked in the advertising business in Pakistan – even if you don’t have any inkling about history or politics – you are bound...
The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.They did not have any soft spot for dictatorial attitudes;...
For over 40 years we have been concerned about Afghanistan in one way or the other. In the 1980s, the Pakistani state supported the mujahideen who...
Essay writing as a genre has not evolved in Pakistan. If you try to count the number of essay writers that Pakistan has produced over the last seven...
As 1989 proceeded, the Soviet Communist Party faced more problems. Gorbachev was pushing it into a direction from where the party knew it would not...
In early 1988, when I was back in Moscow from Odessa, Ukraine, Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo visited the Soviet capital. Ajmal Khattak was already there....
After spending two years in Moscow I moved to Baku, Azerbaijan in 1986, and lived there for a year. From there, I could observe more closely the...
