The author is a political analyst and media development specialist. He can be reached at adrehmat@gmail.com.
Even small budgets can take you places
The consequences for the media have come in the form of increased censorship and heightened intolerance for dissent
To the ‘Spain of the Imagination’ -- a dreamy, sun-kissed land where passion, poetry, and drama collide
The question is what do we do with what’s patently intolerable in Pakistan and yet shamelessly tolerated?
An escape to Athena, where the past and future co-exist rather nicely
Doing politics as politics should be done, speaking to power, representing people’s aspirations -- Farhatullah Babar is arguably the most...
Many of Pakistan’s distinguished and popular citizens, intellectuals and writers and journalists, have found themselves at various times branded...
Qandeel’s killing is reshaping the social discourse around taboos that Pakistani society refuses to address
The Pakistani media must see the events of the last three weeks as an opportunity to nudge itself into the right framework of pluralistic expression
For no good reason, the events of the past few months suggest a wider acceptability of women as legitimate objects to disregard, disrepute and...
Of love affairs, friendships, monuments, churches and much else
The second leg of our Balkan tour demanded full immersion -- there was little time to lose
The emotional experience of being in a city where the weight of recent history still hangs heavy in the air
The party is near invincible with 2018 seeming a mere milestone-formality, not a destination
A formal anti-terrorism policy with a narrative that articulates its own irreversibility should be both the beginning and the end
A ground-breaking new book that investigates the dimly-lit field of militant discourse and its methodologies
Goddamit -- why did I ever read ‘The English Patient’
The scale of reaction in India indicates it will not be easy for Modi’s party to carve out their own version of religious nationalism
Will the media be better off with this new Code of Conduct or not? Will the code strengthen media or weaken it?
Media consumers do not figure in either the development or the suggested implementation of the CoC
