Abdullah Niazi is a member of staff currently studying Literature at LUMS. He also writes and edits for The Dependent.
FEATUREDAt the end of a trail 3300 meters above sea level, nestled between the mountains and forests of Diamer in Gilgit Baltistan, lies a small patch of serenity. The journey, for<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/19/fairy-meadows-a-tiny-taste-of-heaven/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONAL–Forget ‘modern’ electronic voting machines when plain, old-fashioned paper ballots are the way to go –2018 aside, the world can learn from Pakistan’s example of curtailing election-day rigging LAHORE: After this year’s general<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/16/2000-year-old-technology-still-the-best-electoral-device/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALLAHORE: The ANP-PPP coalition government in the KP province enrolled more than twice the number of children in primary and secondary schools during their five year government between 2008-13 compared to the number<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/11/anp-got-more-than-twice-the-number-of-kids-in-school-than-pti-says-kp-education-dept/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsAfter being demoted from category A to category B in the PCB’s central contract awards, Mohammad Hafeez has, basically, thrown a tantrum. The tantrum has been accompanied with the requisite throwing of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/08/mohammad-hafeez-is-he-even-b-category-material/" title="Read more" >...</a>
SportsThe Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a list of 33 centrally contracted players on call to play for international cricket for Pakistan. With the era of Misbah ul Haq and Younis Khan<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/08/takeaways-from-the-pcbs-central-contract-announcement/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Election 2018It has been a long, controversial election season fraught with allegations, arrests, disqualifications and death. At the end of that long, tragic and divisive road lies the polling station where the electorate<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/24/elections-roundup-were-here/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Election 2018When the Election Act 2017 was drafted, the writers would have had in the back of their minds that Section 73 was there in case of emergencies. “If a contesting candidate dies<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/22/elections-roundup-the-unfortunate-need-for-section-73/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALIt’s the weekend before the elections and we have still somehow not decided who is eligible to contest the polls and who is not. The decision in the Hanif Abbasi Ephedrine case<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/21/election-2018-roundup-so-many-cases-so-little-time/" title="Read more" >...</a>
FEATUREDLiterary disaster There are times when something is so bad it just has to be said. In the pursuit of art and greatness, there are hits, misses and disasters, and when it<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/21/reham-khan-by-reham-khan-a-trainwreck-inside-a-dumpster-fire/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Election 2018Even as the League fights it out on all frontiers, they seem to have deployed their final force, with their senators coming out and expressing reservations ahead of the polls over which<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/20/election-roundup-final-frontier/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Election 2018DONKEY HATE SPEECH: Times are strange when you’re five days away from election day and what might soon be the largest party in parliament has to send a lawyer to the election<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/19/elections-roundup-shouting-fire-in-a-crowded-theatre/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Election 2018We are officially less than a week away from the Election Day, and of all the politicians it is Bilawal Bhutto Zardari who is stepping on the gas with his narrative. While<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/18/elections-roundup-the-calm-before-the-storm/" title="Read more" >...</a>
