Political observers note that the integrity of the voting exercise is better presented for this election leading to increased voter confidence.
Published20 Apr, 201312:12pm
The Blind Man’s Garden explores the aftermath of conflict through the lives of ordinary people who become victims of an ugly war that uproots their happiness.
Published17 Mar, 201303:25am
GHULAM Dastagir, an FIA constable and father of six, was shot dead during a police operation in Karachi. He had gone to pray at a neighbourhood mosque. His family never saw him alive again.
Published08 Mar, 201312:10am
THE news today may bring you to the edge of your seat, but apathy to the violence that endures may soon take over, given the general societal attitude.
Published14 Jan, 201312:20am
Sandstorm is fast-paced, descriptive and held together by interviews with ordinary people, rebels, government officials, and young activists.
Published06 Jan, 201303:51am
THE wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have compelled female soldiers to silently change the military culture on the battlefield.
Published13 Nov, 201212:20am
THE case of a teenaged girl, allegedly gang-raped by police officials earlier this month in Mansehra, was not an isolated incident. There have been others where law-enforcing agencies were accused of having been involved
Published30 Aug, 201203:00am
AT Kabul University, female students mingle with male colleagues near beige-shaded faculty blocks; the perfume of roses wafting through the air. They take pride in their education, not wanting to live under a
Published09 Jul, 201212:03am
Mohammad Naseer at 29 is an Afghan veteran commander who began his career as a foot soldier with Ahmed Shah Masood’s Northern Alliance. At 18, he shook hands with Masood at an inspection line-up in the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul
Published12 Jun, 201209:01pm
IN a series of brazen attacks in Afghanistan on Sunday, the Afghan Taliban attacked key Nato bases, embassies, parliament and government buildings in Kabul and three eastern provinces, stoking fears of stalemate in any peace negotiations.
Published17 Apr, 201212:05am
MS A must be 40-something. Beaten, stripped and paraded naked, she was kidnapped from a village in Punjab’s Muzaffargarh district last weekend as punishment because her nephew married a woman of his choice from a
Published07 Mar, 201211:30pm
A THOMAS Reuters Foundation poll of gender specialists reported that Afghanistan in 2011 was the world’s most dangerous country in which to be a woman, due to poverty, poor healthcare and harmful cultural
Published05 Feb, 201201:10am
