Abdullah Niazi is a member of staff currently studying Literature at LUMS. He also writes and edits for The Dependent.
Election 2018There was always going to be a conviction. That was something few were doubting. What the bookmakers were interested in was what the sentence was going to be, and the court came out swinging in respon
Election 2018The ifs and the buts finally made an entry as the good grace that had been observed in the wake of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz’s deteriorating health was finally put to rest by Imran Khan.The PTI chairm
NATIONALThe polls are nearing and the political temperature in the country is in flux, but not because of the mass rallies and charged speeches that one would expect. Instead, at the centre<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/04/elections-roundup-its-a-date/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Election 2018It was a particularly slow day on the election front, mostly because of the spat of bad weather that has hit many parts of the country. With exactly three weeks to go in the polls, there seems to be l
SportsSo here’s the rub, barring anything short of a miracle, Pakistan will face Australia in the final of the ongoing T20 tri-series in Zimbabwe. That Pakistan and Australia, the two top ranked Twenty Tw
NATIONALAfter years of biding his time in the drudgery of electoral politics, Andrés Manuel López. better known as ‘Amlo’ has finally been swept into power by the Mexican people and is set to take charg
NATIONALWe’re finally into July and as the monsoon season kicks in, Imran Khan is riding a wave. Or at least that is what the foreign media is seeing it as. Time Magazine said the other day that Khan is rid
NATIONALIt seems the last straw has finally arrived. The proverbial final nail in the coffin. The closing of door. The parting of ways. Mian Shehbaz Sharif has finally laid down a definitive<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/06/30/elections-roundup-friendship-ended-with-nisar-now-pml-n-is-my-best-friend/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThere is an air that surrounds the Indian subcontinent’s Parsi community. It is the sort of local fascination that the rest of the world could never understand. The Parsis of Bombay and Karachi are
NATIONALThe PTI’s Fawad Chaudhry managed to scrape by while another PML-N stalwart was sent packing as the string of disqualifications and requalifications of candidates continued on Thursday. Chaudhry was let off the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/06/28/elections-roundup-disqualifications-and-requalifications/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALLegal experts are calling it unprecedented and a gross overstep of judicial jurisdiction. But however one wants to describe it, the ‘disqualification’ of former prime minister Shahid Kha
NATIONALIt was an almost American move from Mian Shehbaz Sharif. At an event during his election in Karachi, he walked up to a group of musicians doing a live performance, took the mic from the hands of the s
