Abdullah Niazi is a member of staff currently studying Literature at LUMS. He also writes and edits for The Dependent.
NATIONALLAHORE: Eight judges nominated to the Lahore High Court (LHC) by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) have been appointed without parliamentary oversight since parliamentary committees, including the Parliamentary Committee on Judicial Appointments,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/16/lhc-judges-appointed-amid-parliamentary-silence/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHORELAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) candidate for the NA-131 by-poll, Humayun Akhtar Khan, has alleged that his opponent of rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Khawaja Saad Rafique, is attempting to “rig the election”. “Right<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/13/saad-rafique-trying-to-rig-na-131-by-poll-claims-humayun-akhtar/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHORE–Ruling PTI strives for an upset in NA-124 –Neck-and-neck contest anticipated between Saad Rafique, Humayun Akhtar in NA-131 –PP-64, PP-65 appear to be easy sailings for PML-N LAHORE: The by-election battle in Lahore<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/13/by-polls-game-on-in-na-131-as-pti-pml-n-face-off/" title="Read more" >...</a>
LAHORELAHORE: A panel discussion involving artists and writers from different backgrounds took place here at the city’s “Olo Junction” on Saturday. The talk titled “House Talks” was staged by the House initiative to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/13/performance-art-a-first-in-pakistan-courtesy-house/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALJustice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, the now former judge of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has over the years been no stranger to controversy. His removal from his position by the President on<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/12/justice-shaukat-aziz-siddiqui-a-timeline-of-the-controversial-former-justice/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsThirty-seven seems to be an appropriate age to end a cricketing career. It is around the 35 mark that sports journalists start asking uncomfortable questions and hanging up the boots really becomes<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/10/with-99-scalps-to-his-name-abdur-rehman-calls-it-quits/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThe scene is a familiar one. A reporter, if you want to call him that, armed with a microphone and a cameraman is on the prowl.There is an unsuspecting man in front of him, stunned into silence by t
NATIONALThe Pakistan Tehrik i Insaaf (PTI) has approached the controversial Ahle Sunnat wal Jammat (ASWJ) for their support in the upcoming NA 53 by-elections in Islamabad. In a tweet made by the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/02/pti-seeks-support-of-controversial-aswj-in-na-53-by-election/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThe Madeeha Gauhar Theatre FestivalIt was to packed crowds filled with the country’s artistic elite that the Madeeha Gauhar Theatre Festival opened at Lahore’s Al Hamra Arts Center on Thurs
NATIONALLAHORE: The incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has decided to pursue an appeal against a landmark verdict of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) regarding the missing persons issue that declared enforced disappearances<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/26/pti-pursues-appeal-against-landmark-ihc-verdict-despite-promise-to-help-missing-persons/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALPolice spokesperson says targeting any ethnicity wouldn’t make sense LAHORE: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry late on Saturday night said that a Punjab Government television advertisement regarding security arrangements in Muharram, in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/15/govt-claims-anti-sectarian-ad-that-somehow-featured-pashteen-wazir-and-dawar-retracted/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDThe Dependent, this paper’s satirical sister publication, has been in operation for nearly two years now. And from the day of its inception in back February 2017 to the filing of this<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/15/media-watch-a-comedy-of-errors-and-then-some/" title="Read more" >...</a>
