The writer is a staffer at The News International. She may be contacted at sanaa.ahmed2011@gmail.com.
What does this ahistoric evolution of the media say about its future development or its role in PTI’s Pakistan?
Have you got your summer travel plan sorted out? To the lesser known towns in Europe or to where water stretches out to the horizon in ‘seven...
The existing laws are clearly more than enough to punish those who kill for honour and a brand new law makes little sense
The memory of a qawwali night from last year Ramzan at NAPA, which luckily is happening this year too
If tax is a duty owed to the state and the state chooses to forfeit a portion of this right, why is the tax avoider to blame and what should she be...
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat talks about his creative journey, from Humsafar to the explosive Manto, and how he’s handled the ‘gentrification’ of an...
An ‘apolitical’ court belongs in a country with an apolitical military and a disinterested parliament. And this is why the judgement needs to be...
Friendship today has acquired a script. Suddenly, we know a lot more about the minutiae of our friends’ lives. A brand new intimacy and...
Pakistan is currently running at full capacity as far as the production of ads is concerned and the demand for ads is even greater
The State Bank of Pakistan’s interest rate cut is considered essential for economic growth, which would eventually benefit everyone, including the...
Who were they, these people only Edhi wept over? Were they once distinguishable in a crush of humanity, these dead who are now a series of numbers...
This summer too, parents are ensuring their children’s co-curricular activities are ‘structured’. But is it really in the best interest of...
Laurent Gayer, author of Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City talks about Karachi and why he wrote a book on the city
Tales of the significance, the sacredness of a Misquita Bakery hot cross bun… of how people queue up for hours before Easter and how often they...
The only real option for the government, growers, and millers is to quit quibbling over short-term pricing issues and develop a concerted strategy...
Pakistan’s decision to end the moratorium on death penalty has drawn muted reaction from the rest of the world
Can the world deal with more financial contagion when it has yet to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis?
Perhaps the rethink on corruption needs to focus more on how to deploy the proceeds of corruption
PTI and PAT dharnas have now catapulted the establishment back into the driving seat. And the view from this seat shows that peace and trade with...
The poverty dominoes are poised for collapse once again. And as always, the core problem has to do with the definition, the calculation and the...
