Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Pakistanis like me blog and tweet in English because that is our comfort zone. Pakistani private schools, many of which were legacy British colonial institutions (or pretend to be) had a bias for ...

TWO books published recently have some similarities, but they are different, too. Both of them are, in fact, PhD dissertations; both are on Pakistani Urdu short story and both have been written by ...

A Vatican-approved Urdu translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church has been published in Pakistan. "We are so happy the work has been completed for this Holy Year of Mercy," Father Robert ...

IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it was reflected in Urdu poetry written in the country. It was only natural for Pakistani ...

The Pakistani version of Sesame Street was hailed by the U.S. government as "a mesmerizing reflection of national culture, regional flavors, and a mix of urban and rural Pakistan" after it debuted ...

Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif used to quip that the reason why his country's intelligence officials hadn't harassed him for lampooning a military dictator was because it could take them years to get ...

Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif says copies of the Urdu translation of his irreverent novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, were seized from his publisher's office this week. The book was published in ...