An Adab Festival Pakistan session titled ‘What About the Rest? Challenges and Strategies in National Language Pedagogy’ was held on Sunday to...
The session titled ‘Is Life Worth Living-Finding hope in Pakistan’, held on Saturday as part of the first Adab Pakistan Festival going on at the...
Discussing the importance of the feminist discourse and the various forms through which it has been manifesting itself in the current times, a panel...
Stressing on the form of education that leads to questioning instead of restricting the thought process of students, Prof Dibyesh Anand addressed a...
The Network of Organisations Working for Persons with Disabilities-Pakistan has launched a one-window camp service for people with disabilities to...
Making sure that her Ghoonghat remained in place, a bride entered the tent where the rest of the women were seated.As the fairy lights entwined...
Shedding light on the plight of lady health workers , the Workers Education & Research Organisation on Friday presented a report on their sexual...
Unlike any other afternoon on a weekday, the famous eatery Biryani of the Seas wore a deserted look following the fatal attack on its owner and...
A few days before Christmas, Angel stands outside the shop as her children look through the trees before deciding on one to buy. “We take...
A series of talks under ‘Ye Watan Hamara Hai’ at The Second Floor began on Tuesday evening with a talk on deradicalisation.Moderated by T2F...
Different organisations representing the civil society held a news conference at the Karachi Press Club on Monday to commemorate Human Rights Day...
Rights activists have urged for the need to look at gender-based violence through the lens of prevailing mindsets, than just simply enacting laws,...
Shedding light on how the population issue needs to be treated in a non-linear way, an organisation named Population Council held a discussion at a...
Hitting the book shelves after a hiatus of seven years, Mohammed Hanif had his latest novel, ‘Red Birds’, launched at the British Council on...
Amid the beat of a drum and a dafli, students and civil society activists marched from the Arts Council roundabout to the Karachi Press Club on...
The 11th International Urdu Conference kicked off at the Arts Council Karachi on Thursday with the commemoration of progressive writer and activist...
People flocking to cinema on Sunday morning when a blockbuster is not being screened is quite unimaginable in Karachi but the Sunday Matinees, an...
History and people of Lyari and how the once war-torn area was recovering from the ills of the gang war that persisted for several years were the...
Dipping his brush in light orange paint, Sarwan Kumar paints the wall adjacent to the gate of a house tucked away at the corner of a lane in...
The two-day School of Tomorrow event ‘A World of Tomorrow Reimagined’ kicked off at a hotel on Saturday.The session titled “Freedom of...
In the light of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to acquit Asia Bibi, the Christian community has expressed the hope that now all innocent...
Tehrik-e-Niswan’s Sheema Kermani kicked off the 4th Women’s Peace Table at the Arts Council on Saturday by stressing the need to support and...
The state needs to take responsibility of migrant communities without CNICs, and if they wish to go back, the state must play an active role in...
Women workers from across Sindh participated in a convention held to commemorate the International Home Based Workers’ Day in the city on...
A hackathon was held at the National Incubation Centre on Thursday evening to spread awareness about curbing the use of plastic, a substance...
In light of the recent fire incident at Gadani ship-breaking yard that left seven workers injured, labour rights activists and unions held a rally...
With protruding iron slates and scrap lying around, the third floor of the Arts Council seemed like an ideal site for artist Haider Ali Naqvi’s...
Social activist Jibran Nasir, who contested the General Election 2018 as an independent candidate, has announced a countrywide movement -- Aik Awam...
Mangla Sharma sits among her community members at Laxmi Narayan Mandir, next to the Native Jetty Bridge, answering questions while campaigning in...
Nisha, a representative of the Gender Interactive Alliance , a transgender rights organisation, is excited to be playing an active role in...
The high cost of running for elections, fear of violence, discrimination and lack of support from political parties, and outdated social norms are...
A short walk from DHA Phase-VI’s Nishat Park, the unlocked door of a small basement with a poster stating ‘Hum Mein Se #Aik,’ greets visitors....
Just an hour before sunset in Kaak, a village in Achhro Thar , 12-year-old Meena tries to pull her mule towards the water source from a reservoir,...
Twenty-four men went missing from Youhanabad, a Christian colony in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, in a span of 40 days. Ten of them were allegedly picked up on...
KARACHI: The morning of Wednesday proved to be another test for Abdul Aziz, who laid his 17-year-old daughter, Sabika Shiekh to rest at Azeempura...
It has been a day since the news of the untimely death of 17-year-old Sabika Sheikh reached her family in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. Abdul Aziz, her father,...
The transgender community has hailed the passing of the landmark Transgender Persons Bill 2017 which sailed through the National Assembly on...
The spacious room of the Sindh Tech Skills Development Centre in Khadda Market, Lyari, was packed with visitors last week with many queuing in the...
Participants of a rally held in connection with Labour Day on Tuesday demanded abolishment of the contract system in order to ensure job security of...
Rushing from one doctor’s appointment to another and amid an agonising wait, last week went by in a jiffy for the parents of one-year-old Muhammad...
A few feet away from the Dow Medical College, a group of women are busy painting four side portraits on a wall, between them speech bubbles emerging...
Entering its fourth year, the AKS International Minorities Festival reached Karachi after being held at Lahore and Islamabad earlier this month.The...
Asma Jahangir’s commitment to different issues singled her out because she believed in now, veteran rights activist IA Rehman said of the first...
Balancing little Haroon who sat with his elder sister Fariya on the edge of the stage, lady health worker, Salma was enthusiastically enjoying the...
As a spot of the colour orange rose to the surface of the pond’s still green water, 15-year-old Aazar excitedly pointed to the aged crocodile...
With each passing night since late December last year, 32-year-old Jawwad and his wife have been earnestly hoping for a phone call confirming their...
Members of the Christian community and the civil society gathered once again at the Karachi Press Club on Monday to protest against a Shahdara...
Usually decorated with colourful paintings or portraits, the walls of The Second Floor were adorned with art of another kind, poetry of the late...
Given that many often question the truth about the conditions in Balochistan, economist Kaiser Bengali’s ‘A Cry for Justice: Empirical Insights...
