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This way, ladies! Two senior ministers from Mehran had a falling out with each other. As always, it was a...

These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, tft takes no responsibility...

Where in the world does police seek permission from political parties to enforce law?

A rare picture of Islamia College Peshawar taken in the 1920s. Established in 1913 at the entrance of famous Khyber...

What is meaning that “I am going to retire on November 23”, hain ji? Might as well also have said...

Qissa Khawani bazaar Our mole reports that the miserable-looking head honcho of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, also known as The Grouch, is actually...

Musharraf did not attack Lal Masjid the way terrorists routinely attack schools and hospitals

Is success the sum of tangible boastables? Does the compulsion to excel make anybody happy? Meg Wolitzer succeeds in asking...

Asad Khawaja hit the jackpot this week with a café in Lahore that serves good food and wifi. And doesn't...

Nandini Krishnan sat through Kapoor family in-jokes and scatological humour. And lived to tell the tale

Fayes T Kantawala was denied access to a Lahori garden because he wasn't wearing the right clothes

Rashed's final act of defiance epitomised his individualism, writes Ali Madeeh Hashmi

Walking and cycling in Lahore is becoming more and more of a survival act in a jungle of loud, stampeding...

Facing criticism from Indians and Pakistanis alike, Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed tackles questions on the Hindu class system and religious nationalism

In Komail Aijazuddin's paintings Aasim Akhtar experienced a world at once uplifting and unsettling

These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, tft takes no responsibility...

These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, tft takes no responsibility...

We are all considered potential terrorists or terrorist-sympathisers

Deaf ears Our mole reports that the head honcho of Balochistan spent a few productive days in Europe talking to...

‘I think so,’ I said to Mulloo yesterday, ‘Allah Mian has stopped loving us Pakistanis’. ‘Why?’ she asked. ‘Bhai, just...

A photograph taken on June 1935 shows survivors of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Balochistan. The following text is the...

Fayes T Kantawala has ideas for what to do with the mysterious island that recently emerged off Baluchistan's coast

Warning: avoid this movie at all cost. Review by Nandini Krishnan

Moni Mohsin says she owes an everlasting debt of gratitude to her Christian compatriots and mentors

At a recent exhibition in Karachi, Anwer Mooraj was charmed by the cultural rootedness of artists from Jamshoro

Excerpts from Ahmed Bashir's 'Shoabdabaaz', a sketch of legendary Marxist and poet, Zaheer Kashmiri (1919-1994). Translated from the Urdu by...