Bidding Farewell To The Wizard Of Stagecraft
After putting kids to bed, I was scrolling through social media for the day’s feed, and read a post by...
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Tribute
Zia Mohyeddin Takes His Final Bow
The living legend of Pakistani films, television and stage Zia Mohyeddin has taken his final bow and passed into oblivion....
Amjad Islam Amjad: The ‘Paasban’ After The Army Public School Tragedy
Poet, playwright, educationist, and columnist Amjad Islam Amjad passed away on 10th February 2023 in Lahore. He was 78. The news...
Obituary: Comrade Latif Afridi
Abdul Latif Afridi got killed for no fault of his in a tribal feud – such a kind of death...
Celebrating Ghalib’s 225th Birthday Through Rare Artifacts
Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in...
Daughter Of The East, You Are Missed
Rawalpindi, 27 December 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, the iconic twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, was brutally assassinated by the...
Dr. Tabish Hazir: The Messiah Of Les Misérables Is No More
One of the saddest days today – my great friend, the friend of humanity, my benefactor, the benefactor of the...
Remembering Dr. Humayun Khan: Icon Of Grace, Intellect And Diplomacy
Saturday the 20th of November evening was a treat for music lovers of Islamabad. Shahmir Samee, the young talented freelance...
Last Of The Giants: Nawab Ashiq Hussain Qureshi
On September 21 2022, just a couple of days after the National T20 tournament had ended, the Multan International Cricket...
Nazia Zuberi Honours Nayyara Noor
Nazia Zuberi fans were in for a treat as a private tribute was held to honour the Bulbul of Pakistan,...
One Year On: Remembering the Scholar and Activist Dr. Rubina Saigol
Last year on August 27th 2021 we lost Dr. Rubina Saigol. Known as a scholar and a member of Women’s...
A History of Glorious Resistance
Although it is impossible to summarise the complexity of women’s resistance in Pakistan in a single text, let alone multiple...
Tribute To Bilquis Edhi By One Of The Children To Whom She Gave A New Life
Rabia Bano Osman, a baby girl abandoned by her parents 28 years ago in Karachi, has paid glowing tributes to...
Bidding Farewell To Dr Mehdi Hasan – And Pakistan’s Progressive Story-line
In Australia, amongst the indigenous aboriginal people, storylines or storytelling has been valued as the traditional ways of preserving culture,...
Layton & Rahmatulla: Modern-day Missionaries
YACOOBALI ZAMINDAR Founder Trustee of the LRBT pays homage to the philanthropists who created the institution
My Comrade in Arms
Major General Syed Ali Hamid remembers his friend Capt. Syed Hassan Zaheer (Sitara-e-Jurat), who fell in battle in 1971
Batting to the last ball
Khaled Ahmed celebrates a life well-lived lived on the occasion of Syed Babar Ali’s election to the American Academy of...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
After Punjab, ECP Schedules KP Elections For Oct 8
The Election Commission of Pakistan has scheduled elections...
SC Decides Cases Looking At Trucks, Not Constitution: Maryam
PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday...