Dasht, Barish aur Raat”, a recent collection of short stories, marks another milestone in Atiya Syed’s literary career. It contains 20 promising short stories, like her earlier collections. Even though the subject matter is entirely different this time, there are familiar patterns in ...

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon   When Amb James Dobbins arrives at the ground-floor offices of the State Department’s Special Representative forAfghanistanandPakistanhe will find a depleted staff, a moribund peace process and a mandate riddled with colossal diplomatic challenges. Secretary ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the discretionary power of former prime minister regarding distribution of billions of People’s Works Development Programme-II funds among parliamentarians and others.A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, ...

Misbah-ul-Haq How you feel about the absence of international cricket at home? It’s a really, really sorry thing for us that we’re not able to play at home. The people and the players are missing that. The confidence you get when you play in your own conditions, it totally reflects in ...

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Friday questioned Sharif brothers' failure to implement its manifesto during five years of rule in Punjab.  "Why did Sharif brothers not implement their manifesto. Shahbaz Sharif makes allegations to cover his poor performance," he said while ...

MAKHACHKALA A US delegation including FBI agents interviewed the parents of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in the Russian North Caucasus region of Dagestan, but were told the two brothers had not contacted local Islamist groups, officials said Wednesday.The parents of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the Returning Officers to stop asking irrelevant questions during scrutiny of the nomination papers.The Commission in a letter to the 4 provincial governments has directed to implement interim decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC) regarding ...

ISLAMABAD – Questioning the right of Dr Tahirul Qadri, as a dual national, to file a petition seeking reconstitution of the election commission, the Supreme Court Monday directed him to submit the concise statement of his claims and the notification of his Canadian citizenship.A three-member ...

British candy maker Cadbury has recalled 11 types of its Chinese-made chocolate as a precaution, the Hong Kong government said, becoming the latest foreign company affected by China's tainted milk scandal. Cadbury Asia Pacific told the Hong Kong government's Center for Food Safety the chocolates ...