The campus of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is famous for being a bubble environment where risqué fashion trends are explored and high-school soap operas come to life in the midst of hijab-clad women and the bearded folk from LUMS Religious Society. To an outsider visiting LUMS,...

Washington-based Niloufer Siddiqui examines the contours of Pakistan’s political identity. I consider myself a liberal. In the United States, where I have lived and studied for the past eight years, such self-identification has been seamless, almost natural. I am, however, becoming increasingly...

Dawn.com’s Huma Yusuf looks at the Pakistan Day awards ceremony and wonders what it means for Pakistan today. Another Pakistan Day, another awards ceremony. On Monday, President Asif Ali Zardari gathered “outstanding” Pakistanis – both military personnel and civilians – around him at the...