The writer is a staff member.
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...
Have you watched ‘Mughal-e-Azam’? This question, posed to any cinema enthusiast, would readily invoke a reference to that epic movie made by K...
It had been raining for hours, though not as heavily as our monsoon downpours, when we ventured out on a drive. It was early in the afternoon last...
One of my pleasures in visiting our elder daughter in southern California is to feel the warmth and glory of the cultural environment of Los...
As we escalated on to the main concourse of the Istanbul Airport, we were greeted by the sound of music. A group of young people was dancing in a...
Even if you are totally bowled over by the endless reverberations of what had happened on May 9, you still need to have patience to bear with this...
In recent weeks, there is this subject tugging at my heart that I have been afraid to take up. I find it very unsettling, emotionally, and feel that...
While the stage is abuzz with a medley of ‘dramatis personae’, the spotlight this week has mostly been on the higher judiciary. Specifically,...
An ‘Alhamdulillah’ moment it was for Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif when Pakistan reached a nine-month $3 billion staff-level agreement with the...
First, I have to make this confession that I am unable to bring together my thoughts on the two marine tragedies that relate to Pakistan in a...
For almost the entire week, so many of us had anxiously waited for the threatened arrival of a cyclone. Since there was an element of...
It does seem to be so unreal, all that has happened in Pakistan – and the events are continuing to unfold. For many of us, it is a rollercoaster...
Last week, in this space, I had invoked the concept of the Greek tragedy to portray the gradual decimation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the...
Caught in the eye of the storm, it is not easy to fully grasp the meaning and the drift of events that are taking place at such a fast pace. What we...
Where were you on May 9, 2023? This is one journalistic device to bring up a particular event for comment and interpretation, an event that may have...
A spectre is haunting Pakistan – the spectre of a possibly violent final round in the ongoing tussle for power. As the battle lines are being...
There is this thought that I have recycled in my columns a few times. And I remember expounding on it a bit in an article in the now defunct news...
We have a graphic analysis of how political instability has taken a toll on human rights in the annual report of the Human Rights Commission of...
