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Popular Punjabi folk singer Shaukat Ali passed away in Lahore after liver failure on Friday, leaving behind a legacy of passion-filled singing that included classic Punjabi poem, Kalam-e-Iqbal and ghazals. Ali’s protracted illness was the result...

By Sahibzada Riaz Noor The tradition of scholar-administrators in British India did dwindle after partition, but totally extinct it did not become. Despite the censorious cavilling about civil servants from various quarters for being high browed mandarins...

Proverbs are not just about wisdom and lessons drawn from the experiences of people. They are much more than just witty sayings. They represent the culture and ethos of a people, community, and nation. That is...

By Mumina Ali and Anjali Singh Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, our Professor of the World of Islam at American University, a former diplomat, playwright and author has conducted many dialogues discussing the idea of interfaith and how...

Afghanistan was a different place in 1960s and early 1970s, when I worked there. It was a progressive place, far different than the world has seen in the last 40 years. One day, I had a...

Author Akbar Ahmed with Princess Diana and Prof. Jonahtan Benthall  For far too long, Western anthropology has been seen by its critics  as a tool of Western imperialists, a means of understanding how to best exploit...

Feelings of the time slipping by and expectations of good times ahead merged creatively as the Society of Urdu Literature hosted its last session of 2017 in the afternoon of December 31, just hours before the...

The chaos of our times is marked by so many factors – terrorism, gun violence, unprecedented onslaught of information, economic disparity, conflicting narratives, propagandist portrayals of the other and heart-rending images of human suffering – that...

The United States and Pakistan often use cultural diplomacy to reach out to the people and thinking circles in both countries as they seek to amplify convergences and mutual benefits of the relationship in the face...

A galaxy of Pakistani film stars studded the UN Headquarters in New York as the first-ever Film Festival began after a glittering Friday night event. UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, who was the chief guest, congratulated...