Remembering a forgotten princess

Princess Jahanara, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's daughter, was a paragon of virtues: well-educated, well-versed in statecraft, even-tempered, beautiful. Although she was on the side of Dara Shikoh in......

What could Zardari's mannat at Ajmer Sharif be?

Rediff.com's Tahir Ali reads behind the lines on Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's private pilgrimage to Ajmer Sharif and analyses the decline of Sufism in PakistanQuestions have been raised......

Pak cops nab tennage Taliban bomber

Police in Pakistan's commercial hub of Karachi claimed to have nabbed a potential teenage suicide bomber, along with his Taliban handlers, who he said told him that he was promised paradise if he......

Twin blasts at Karachi Sufi shrine kill 8

Two Taliban suicide bombers today struck venerated Sufi shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Karachi, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60 others in the latest in a slew of attacks on sacred......