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Politicians on a sinking ship
Khaled Ahmed

Zardari at the centre is obviously bothered by a real prospect of getting his party ousted from government through a no-confidence vote in parliament

Survival made difficult?
Imtiaz Gul

Lists down reasons which are causing trouble for the government

Arab regimes tottering variously
Saeed Naqvi

Winds of change are blowing across Middle East

analysis

Davis claims more victims and reputations
Mehreen Zahra-Malik

Did the US media collude in withholding key information in the Davis case? What message does the resumption of drone strikes send to Pakistan and the Taliban?

reports

Raymond Davis: mishandling on all sides
Shaukat Piracha

Is the Raymond Davis case the result of mishandling by the US Embassy in Islamabad or mishandling by the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan?

Three way collision
Mubasher Bukhari

The political temperature is rising in Punjab and the stage is set for an intense a three way political and legal battle

week in focus

history

“The Karachi affair” & French Naval bombing
Ali K Chishti

Ali K Chishti Exclusive report on the terror attack in Karachi, nine years ago, which killed eleven French citizens

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What women want
Rabayl Manzoor

reconsiders her rebellions

culture

Starry starry night
 

The Faiz Philes
Tazeen Javed

Tazeen Javed is irritated by the new breed of brat who spouts a few verses of Faiz only to suit its own conservative purposes

opinion

Falling in love with the city of lovers
Mr. MacPhisto

Mr. MacPhisto leaves his hometown Karachi for a job in Lahore and lives to tell the tale

i remember

Ustad Amanat Ali Khan
By Ustad Ghulam Haider Khan

photo archive

Shahid Saeed Khan’s collection Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Muammar al-Gaddafi, 1972
Shahid Saeed Khan

critique

Metamorphosing the Self
This is the first in Taimoor Shahid’s two-part review of the two-person show titled Two is a Company, featuring works by miniaturists Madiha Sikander and Ahsan Jamal

review

Dilli lost and found
Rakhshanda Jalil

reviews a new book about her native city

exclusive

The man who knew too much
Lawyer, former left wing Political Activist and founder of the Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts, Raza Kazim talks to Shahid Saeed about his involvement in the 1984 coup attempt and his subsequent disillusionment with the country's state of affairs

humour

Paindu pride
Assaulted by his wife for being “too loud” in an American restaurant, Humayun Bashir goes into a fit of Punjabiness

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A Londoner’s Diary
The UK is tolerant, secular and relatively happy, but Catriona Luke and her fellow citizens take what politicians and the papers say with a pinch of salt