Scene

The American dream

Tahira Syed was embarrassed, shaken and finally moved while watching Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in a New York movie theater... read more

Style

The women's movement

Changing style sensibilities across four generations of empowered women, all in one family. A photo-essay by Sonya Rehman... read more

Report

Keep the change

The day after the election results were announced, Hira Nabi went to the protests of PTI voters at Lahore's Lalak Jan Chowk. Where, she wonders, will these recently politicized PTI voters go next: back into the drawing room, or out into the street?... read more

Art

There will be blood

Can Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi's devastating new work, currently displayed on the rooftop of New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art, convey the experience of a terrorized society to ordinary Americans? Not beyond a point, says Nafisa Rizvi... read more

Scene

Resident Evil

For how long will we tolerate MQM boss Altaf Hussain's 'incitement to violence', asks Fayes T Kantawala... read more

Art

"I don't think my paintings are mean"

Young Pakistani painter Salman Toor, whose sensuous and sardonic paintings have a fan following in South Asia's literary and art circles, talks to TFT about his latest show in New York, the beautification of poverty and the role of painting in Pakistani society... read more

Music

Smashed

The TV show Pepsi Smash tries to marry electronica with Pakistani pop and rock. Asfandyar Khan counts the ways in which it fails... read more

Movies

Beyond the book

Nandini Krishnan reviews Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamnetalist... read more

Photo Archive

Ziaul Haq in Jordan (1970)

by Isa Daudpota's collection

A rare photograph of late Pakistani military ruler Gen Ziaul Haq in Jordan, during what was known as Black September.

Zia was posted in Jordan from 1967 to 1970 as a brigadier, where... read more