Many Pakistanis think that Salam was opposed to making the bomb. Some say he played no role in it. This is wrong—he did want Pakistan to have the bomb, but felt that he had more important things to do ...

The Iranian icon advocated progressivism despite opposition from the forces of the shah and the clergy Abbas Amanat, professor of history at Yale University, has penned the monumental 979-page Iran: A ...

A new book explores how books and libraries have been targeted throughout history to suppress knowledge and push particular ideologies Richard Ovenden, the senior executive of the Bodleian Libraries, ...

In her 2011 book, The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan, Saadia Toor narrates an incident from 1999 at the office of Lahore’s “women lawyers” Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani, ...

The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977 (Routledge 2018) by Salman Rafi Sheikh is clearly the most comprehensive and penetrating study of what the state of ...

A new book of essays edited by parliamentarian Sherry Rehman offers insight into the past, present and future of the country’s women’s rights movement Womansplaining: Navigating Activism, Politics and ...

In Urdu Poetry: The Progressive Episode (OUP 2017), author Carlo Coppola tells us about the life of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. A Professor Emeritus of Hindi-Urdu and linguistics at Oakland University, Rochester ...

The country’s past, as detailed in a new book, is replete with people such as Dr. Mubarak Ali who resisted the national narrative When you write about Pakistan, the uppermost feeling that guides you ...

In his books on Pakistan and India, the American historian, who died aged 91, had much knowledge to impart On March 12, 2019, the former Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, ...

Islamabad must prepare for a potential boost to cross-border extremism after the U.S. completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan With the U.S. on track to withdraw all its forces from Afghanistan by ...

The Prime Minister of Pakistan needs to convene an emergency NCA meeting to discuss the threat and work out responses India, eyeing the Russian S-400 Triumf long-range, anti-aircraft system since 2015 ...

The leader of the Turkish National Movement proved an inspiration globally, even among those who counted themselves his critics Turkish general Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) became the hero of his ...