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

Pothohar is located in the middle of the country, encompassing all the districts that lie between the Margalla Hills and ...

A wave of fear has gripped Thatta on Wednesday after the bullet-riddled body of a police constable was found floating ...

Some Indian friends are down in the dumps: they are the true music lovers and want the distinction between ‘awards’ ...

I had long known about the mesmerising Sufi devotional music known as qawwali thanks to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, of ...

Rawalpindi, 27 December 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, the iconic twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, was brutally assassinated by the ...

Erasing Histories and the Formation of Narratives When the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted in the ...

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

The Pakistani cultural heritage is known to be very diverse, and its essential elements are folk legacies and tangible symbols. ...

The famed Rohilla clans were mainly drawn from Pashtun tribes. They migrated from their barren surroundings in the Hindukush and, ...

The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...

On the 4th of November 1953, Queen Elizabeth II took her oath in front of the Archbishop, who asked, "Will ...

Nietzsche’s Hammer  Those who romanticise irrationality are convinced that rationality works best when driven by ‘evil’ intentions. To anti-rationalists, passion ...

In Karachi, good theatre is hard to come by, especially when one looks for literate entertainment. Olomopolo Media dared to ...

In the world of music, there are only two prestigious levels that musicians aspire to achieve. With vigorous practice (riaz), ...

After the pandemic, we haven’t fully recovered but we did survive 2020 and 2021. And trust me when I say ...

Looking at ourselves and around us, all we do is find complaints or excuses for not becoming what we could ...

Khanspiracy While commenting on PTI’s stunning victory in the recently concluded Punjab Assembly (PA) by-elections, almost all analysts agree that ...

43 years ago in April 1979, a former prime minster of Pakistan, Z.A. Bhutto, was executed for allegedly ordering the ...

“Benazir Bhutto has been killed, and we want you live on BBC television straight away, please.” It was early morning ...

Mr. Imran Khan welcomes the Judiciary’s decision on Article 63-A as it positively impacts his politics, especially in Punjab. Political ...

Dead Man’s Prisoner is a fascinating novel by a former provincial bureaucrat of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. It addresses the despicable ...

There are Sufi shrines in almost every old locality of Rawalpindi which belong to different Sufi orders. A few of ...

Showing signs of exhaustion and complacency during its last few seasons, Coke Studio (CS) returned this year looking refreshed, rejuvenated and ...

Figurative art is one of the oldest forms of human expression and it is the art of realistic representation. This ...

After President Yahya Khan launched a military operation to crush the opposition, Bengalis who resisted were called “miscreants” – this ...