The writer is a staff member.
Imagine the government of Pakistan exhorting the youth of the country to not only go and watch ‘Joyland’ but also offer them money to buy the...
There is not much sense in finding an allusion to Pakistan in the mirror of what happens in another country, though political trends sometimes flow...
Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a deep blue hospital gown, Imran Khan held forth from his hospital room on Friday evening as if he were on the...
With one seismic shift after another, this has truly been a week in which Pakistan’s political uncertainty has become more uncertain. But the...
While Imran Khan’s disqualification by the Election Commission of Pakistan in the Toshakhana reference on Friday was very predictable, it has...
For years, the advent of the first of May would raise the spirits of a somewhat wider group of friends in Karachi. On that day, we would be invited...
Far from the madding crowd that lurks in the underworld of Pakistan’s politics – a place presently haunted by audio leaks – the literary world...
This was the week of audio ‘leaks’, aside from the political victory of Maryam Nawaz in a court of law on Thursday. Her conviction in the...
In some ways, a visit to Islamabad by someone permanently based in Karachi is a drastic change of scene. And what would be the meaning and the...
These are times that, in Thomas Paine’s words, “try men’s souls”. And: “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,...
