The writer is a staff member.
For his followers, Trump dodged that bullet because he is the man of destiny
There is no clarity about what is happening and where we are headed as a nation
A number of Ismail Kadare's novels are considered masterpieces and are translated into around 40 languages
A representational image showing furniture set on fire by a mob at Madyan police station, in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on June 20, 2024. — Geo...
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presents federal budget before the National Assembly on June 12, 2024. — PID There is this quotation from...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures, at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2024. — Reuters Is there...
A representational image showing University of Karachi students carrying a large national flag as part of the Independence Day celebrations. —...
Climate activists hold placards as they take part in a demonstration in support of the environmental and climate protection movement ‘Fridays for...
A session in the Pakistan Literature Festival held in Quetta is seen on May 17, 2024. — Facebook/ACPKHIWhen you look at the map of Pakistan,...
Police fire teargas shell towards Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party activists and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan to disperse them...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pictured alongside President Asif Ali Zardari. — INP/FileBeing a man of action in the lazy setting of...
This image shows Karachi Police personnel and commandos standing guard on November 29, 2023. — Facebook/Karachi Police - KPOEvery morning when I...
We tend to behave as if there is no dire and imminent threat to our well-being, as a country and as a society
Representational image. — UnsplashBeware the Ides of March. This well-known quotation was, we know, the warning given to Julius Caesar, in...
A clip of Gandapur’s hot-blooded remarks was shown on some channels and circulated on social media
A woman views prices of rice being sold at a shop in Pakistan. — AFP/FileWith this week’s advent of Ramazan, our lives have changed in some...
His murder took place at high-end Kohsar Market in Islamabad where Salmaan Taseer had arrived to meet friends in a restaurant
Incidentally, being a journalist also allows me to peep into the gilded lives of the rich and the famous
Over a week after contested general elections, outcome remains uncertain
Original sin, of course, was to select Imran Khan as saviour of nation and then to groom and launch him in 2018
When one of the time bombs seemingly planted for the final days of the electoral campaign exploded on Tuesday morning, there naturally was a rush of...
Now, this headline would naturally leave you in a state of shock
Here is latest twists and turns in story, play out in domain of higher judiciary, Simultaneously, so much more is happening on other fronts
Shahnaz Aijazuddin mentioned Harry Potter and the magical realm created by J K Rowling as an extension of a dastan like Tilism-e-Hoshruba
While we wait for elections to be held – with bated breath, perhaps – there are matters of greater significance that trouble the minds of people...
With the proceedings of the four-day 16th International Urdu Conference continuing this weekend at the Arts Council in Karachi, there is this...
Anyhow, I do need to provide a glimpse of what has been reported in the media
Panellists can be seen listening to a speaker during a closing ceremony of the two-day Pakistan Literature Festival 2023 Sukkur on October 29, 2023,...
Supporters of Hezbollah and allied Palestinian factions in Lebanon lift flags and placards during a protest in the southern city of Sidon in...
A picture taken from Sderot on October 21, 2023, shows smoke rising over buildings in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli strike. — AFP During my...
Chancing upon a history quiz on YouTube, I was a bit intrigued by a question on Winston Churchill. Though I vaguely had some idea about what it was...
Though it fell to caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti’s lot to deliver it, the message clearly had the stamp of a higher level. And it...
When Malik Meraj Khalid became caretaker prime minister in November 1997, he had his first close encounter with the prime minister’s house in...
Oh, to be young. Poets, writers and philosophers have celebrated this magical phase in one’s life. A young person, anywhere and in any...
There was this ‘gentleman’ in the Moliere play who was delighted to learn that he had been speaking in ‘prose’ all his life without knowing...
As the poet said: 'They are not long, the days of wine and roses'. Any extravagant retreat from the daily rigours of our lives, if we are at all...
