Diary

I feel extremely offended when Karachi is dismissed as if it were only a financial hub of the country. Yes,...

The heat from the sun penetrates my scalp as I visually scan the makeshift medical camp our volunteers have set...

In the year 2017, I bought Letters to a Young Poet during travel to Lahore for work. I was not...

After a gap of more than 44 years, I decided to revisit London in August 2022. The London of 2022...

Remember your adolescence? Do you recall how often we would be (oh so) morbidly preoccupied with how we appeared to...

In the darkness of the early morning hours, a driver and tour guide were taking us up the High Andes...

Conducting research – proper research if you may – is no walk in the park. But in Pakistan, it’s like...

History is the greatest evidence and witness. Therefore, the victors and powerful are always scared of it. They love it...

The biggest sporting event in the world has ended. The grand finale was played on Sunday, 18 December 2022, at...

In my early days in university, I endeavoured to participate in the class discussion about US incursions into various countries...

At the end of last year, I tried assimilating a common theme into my routine: leave it in 2021. It...

Imam Ghazali narrates an incident in his famous work Ihya Ulum-al-Din that we all ought to be sharing today in...

While touring the urban delights of Melbourne, we discovered that there was a place called Phillip Island, which was worth...

On the 13th of December, Maulana Akbar Chitrali was screeching in the parliament, lamenting the ‘disgrace’ that a woman, Hina...

A garbage-riddled ground, rather a debris-riddled ground, the kind of filthiness you'd only imagine in squalor; worked up by drudges,...

With the 25th of December knocking at our doors, there’s a truth I want to get off my chest: a...

Ever since we saw the Eight Immortals opera in Beijing, we had been planning to visit South Korea. Late one...

Pakistan is a strange land. It is the only place in the world where you can find the most talented,...

When the two media giants Ahmad Noorani and Haroon Rashid stated that Najam Sethi is not a journalist, I had...

Humanising the statistics on the rural poor in Pakistan has always been a challenge. In a country which has become...

I hope I see you before I depart this world! This entreaty was from Asif, my friend of 55 years,...

Boarding the Careem car that I had earlier booked, the Captain gave me a quizzical look and asked if I...

I am writing this on a Sunday night. And on nights such as these, I wonder: what if I were...

I bought cheap tickets at the Lords for the final of the 2009 T20 World Cup, hoping to see India...

Thar is the 17th largest desert in the world and the ninth largest sub-tropical desert. It is spread over thousands...

  I hope you’re angry about these floods. It’ll take Pakistan years, possibly decades, to ‘rehabilitate’ from the colossal scale...