Month: December 2020

A year ago today on 11th of December, a large group of lawyers stormed the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), ...

پاکستان تحریک انصاف کی مجرمانہ بدانتظامی کے علاوہ کوویڈ 19 نے زندگی کی سرگرمیوں کے شدید متاثر کیا ہے۔ اس ...

Vive la resistance! That was the slogan in World War II of the French Resistance to the Nazis. And it ...

Haw look at UK! It’s become just like poor brown country. Diseased, cut off and poor. Aur tau aur even ...

Nirvaan Nadeem on the process of taking his wedding and Ajoka Theatre alike to the virtual realm

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Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro finds vivid depictions of the hunt and imaginings of folk romances

Zeinab Masud thinks about loss and grief in the era of a global pandemic

Raza Naeem on the hopes and disappointments of 1970

Alia Shoaib pays tribute to the rare man who was her grandfather

Adil Zareef on the influences that shaped Bacha Khan’s worldview

Fayes T Kantawala finds previously ‘distant’ conversations breaking into the Pakistani consciousness – for better or worse

On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. ...

Last Friday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi called a presser while visiting the United Arab Emirates. At the presser he ...

The election was clearly a popular referendum on Trump and not necessarily on Trumpism, writes William Milam

Javid Ali Khan writes about the life and passions of his dearest friend

The post 9/11 Muslim pietist subject realized that he had to abandon aniconism to be politically relevant, writes Afiya Shehrbano ...

Adnan Aamir believes that policymakers must factor in development needs of Balochistan before announcing big projects

The criminal mismanagement by the PTI government, coupled with the severe disruption in everyday life wrought by Covid-19, has made ...

The fears are genuine and based on bitter experience with the corporates in the past. Contract farming was tried in ...

Nothing ventured … We can only guess at why Billy The Kid was so keen to meet The Man of ...

What a momentous year it’s been! 2020 is the year I finally put paid to the Opposition, the independent media, ...

Mohsin Ali Syed considers why Pakistan's rulers find it difficult to concede to the religious nationalism of the mainstream

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Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro on the paintings of hunting and animal combat to be found in tombs across Sindh