Abdullah Niazi is a member of staff currently studying Literature at LUMS. He also writes and edits for The Dependent.
NATIONALThe Awami Workers Party (AWP) on Saturday filed a writ petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the blocking of their official website by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
NATIONALISLAMABAD: Police have detained scores of protesters, including Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leaders Abdullah Nangyal, Gulalai Ismail and Pashteen Idrees, over their participation in a protest against the “extrajudicial killing” of Professor<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/02/05/abdullah-nangyal-gulalai-ismail-among-dozens-of-ptm-workers-held-in-capital/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice has sought performance reports from the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) and the provincial high courts regarding the details of cases and ref
NATIONALNewly sworn in Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa has listed the Khadija Siddiqi stabbing case for January 23, when he will hear the appeal against the Lahore High Court's (LHC) decision to acquit the acc
LAHORELAHORE: Punjab Senior Minister Abdul Aleem Khan on Saturday elaborated the incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s plans to empower the local body system. Speaking to a crowd filled with Union Council chairmen,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/12/aleem-khan-promises-empowered-local-govt/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHORELAHORE: A rain-hit day did little damage to the first day of the Afkar-e-Taza ThinkFest held at the Alhamra Arts Council as people from all over the city gathered to hear from<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/12/afkar-e-taza-thinkfest-kicks-off/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsPakistan goes into a dead rubber game at the Wanderer’s in Johannesburg on Friday desperate to try and save face. With a cobbled together team that can’t seem to find any semblance of rhythm, anot
Sports–With Haris Sohail injured, there’s no reason to keep Fawad Alam out of the team As they head to Cape Town for the second test on Thursday, it seems Pakistan isn’t going<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/02/pakistans-middle-order-is-in-ruins-and-fawad-alam-is-the-answer/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDManzoor Pashteen has been all over the place in 2018, but he hasn’t quite been in the news. When he led a 22 person march from Dera Ismail Khan towards the Pashtun long march in Islamabad in Janua
FEATUREDThere wasn’t any new music. In fact, the closest thing to ‘new music’ that ‘junoon’ has produced in recent times were Salman Ahmed’s ravenous attack on the band’s classic track ‘Sayone
FEATUREDFor a man that was disqualified in the December of 2017 from his seat in parliament for not meeting the standards of sadaqat and amanat set out in articles 62 and 63 of the constitution, Jehangir Tare
FEATUREDLet’s cut to the chase with this one. We’ve never seen a Chief Justice like this. But as judges tend to do, he might just be setting a precedent, one for judicial (over?) activism.Jurists, es
