Fifi Haroon is a journalist based in London and works with the BBC World Service as a broadcaster.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan was asked a very strange question when he walked across the Wagah border from India into Pakistan. A BBC reporter inquired...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan was asked a very strange question when he walked across the Wagah border from India into Pakistan. A BBC reporter inquired...
Women have often embodied land and country both in terms of representation in Bollywood cinema and in the popular imagination in the Subcontinent....
Women have often embodied land and country both in terms of representation in Bollywood cinema and in the popular imagination in the Subcontinent....
Women have often embodied land and country both in terms of representation in Bollywood cinema and in the popular imagination in the Subcontinent....
There are few causes closer to my heart than the furtherance of Pakistani cinema. Without doubt, the events of this week are an affirmation that...
There is something wrong with the state of a nation when its most acclaimed filmmaker gets rapped on the knuckles by the censors for having the guts...
There is something wrong with the state of a nation when its most acclaimed filmmaker gets rapped on the knuckles by the censors for having the guts...
This week, something happened across the border that left me sick to the stomach. Something deep inside me that once resembled hopefulness –...
Culture Pop I am a British-Pakistani woman and a Muslim. Though technically ‘brown’, I am fairly light-skinned. I don’t wear the...
Culture Pop It is perhaps a sign of the times that there are dirty old, powerful men in every office – be it square, round or oval –...
Culture Pop Soaps across the world survive on the echo effect of familiar stereotypes. This is not a phenomenon that is simply native to Pakistan....
Culture Pop She is three. A tiny little thing who for the next 10 years or so, until she reaches puberty, will literally be carried around...
Culture Pop This week, a famous Pakistan man congratulated another famous Pakistani man in full view of the world on Twitter. He called him...
Culture Pop Thousands of miles apart, two daughters are trying to navigate their developing paternal legacies in the spotlight. Both have spoken...
Culture Pop It seems that purgatory is finally over and Pakistani cinema has won over its audience’s hearts and wallets once again. After a...
This week marks the 20th death anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales’ unfortunate end in a lonely tunnel in Paris. The moment was marked by...
Last week, a controversial article on sexual grooming was published in a UK tabloid with a headline screaming for attention: ‘British...
Tomorrow Pakistan will be 70 years young. I love my country deeply, but let’s be honest: despite its scenic beauty, the Pakistani nation has...
At some time or the other in our careers many of us who are strong, confident women have come across a degree of gender-based intimidation or sexual...
In all the hoopla about a sitting prime minister’s disqualification there are some stories that may lie forgotten by the wayside. This is one...
This week, in the deserted lanes of a heritage site in the tribal backwaters of Najd, a 100 miles from Riyadh, a young Saudi woman caused a...
Culture Pop Popular historical cinema has the potential to rewrite our memories of political events or at least cast them in a persuasive light,...
