Abdullah Niazi is a member of staff currently studying Literature at LUMS. He also writes and edits for The Dependent.
NATIONAL–Officials say PTM leaders placed on ECL as they were wanted in case concerning Swabi gathering PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday released Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leaders and sitting MNAs, Ali<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/30/fia-detains-mnas-ali-wazir-mohsin-dawar-from-airport/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsCaptain Sarfraz Ahmed made a confusing call on the second day of the second Test between Pakistan and New Zealand in the UAE, choosing to declare the first innings at a total<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/25/sarfrazs-senseless-declaration-leaves-pundits-fans-scratching-heads/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONAL–CM’s advisor serving as part-time education guide despite PTI’s plans to reform social sector LAHORE: Despite being in power for the last 100 days, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/24/100-days-on-kp-govt-yet-to-appoint-minister-for-education/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHORELAHORE: Famed Urdu poet and literary personality Fahmida Riaz was laid to rest here on Thursday.She had passed away at the age of 72 on Wednesday night in Lahore.The eminent progressive writer
FEATUREDThis year’s season of Coke Studio has been a lot of things. There have been highs and lows, controversies and outrages, and all the other topsy turvy ups and downs that come<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/18/faiz-beyond-ideology/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHORELAHORE: People from all over the provincial capital thronged to the Alhamra Arts Council for the first full-fledged day of the fourth Faiz International Festival. The fourth edition of the festival honouring<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/17/lahore-throngs-faiz-international-festival-on-second-day/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHORELAHORE: The fourth Faiz International Festival kicked off here at Alhamra Arts Council to packed crowds, as people made their way to celebrate the life, works and beliefs of the late great Urdu<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/16/fourth-faiz-international-festival-kicks-off/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsLAHORE: Barely a week after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formed a seven-member cricket committee meant to clean-up Pakistan cricket, the PCB is already mulling replacing committee Chairman Mohsin Khan after he<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/06/ehsan-mani-takes-u-turn-on-empowering-cricket-committee/" title="Read more" >...</a>
CITYPakistan arguably stands at a much more unstable and confusing place today than it ever was and yet this is not a historically uncharacteristic crossroads that the country finds itself in, but<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/04/book-review-existential-question-for-pakistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsThe Pakistan Cricket Board’s formation of a committee made of former cricket players with wide ranging jurisdiction to look into all matter pertaining Pakistan cricket is the first big decision that has<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/27/manis-first-big-move-might-just-be-the-right-one/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONAL–Umair Nutkani, a teacher from Taunsa Shareef, was allegedly murdered by relatives of Chief Minister Usman Buzdar LAHORE: The family of a teacher murdered in Taunsa Shareef, allegedly at the hands of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/23/cm-punjab-accused-of-influencing-probe-into-teachers-murder-case/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDA first for Pakistan Performance art, as a concept, is alien to Pakistan. For afficiendos, it is a vague concept. An outlier so unfamiliar and so far removed from the Pakistani reality<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/22/body-becoming-mainstreaming-performance-art/" title="Read more" >...</a>
