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

The birth of Pakistan saw the 1948 Kashmir conflict and since then, the country has been in a state of ...

Views and convictions centered on menstruation differ across societies, but remain an unthinkable topic to talk about in the Global ...

Unfortunately, the discussion on maritime domain is often ignored in the academia and national discourse of Pakistan. However, the world ...

Decades after a fatwa on his head, Salman Rushdie was stabbed not by those whose sentiments were hurt with the ...

In March 1987, I sat for my final year Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) exams. Pakistan Studies was the last exam. ...

From reluctant initial steps towards finding its own idiom as well as a politics that picks itself up and graduates ...

It is sad to watch a respected name in the banking world try to pull a rabbit out of a ...

Oh boy, so much political drama going on in the country right now. It's almost impossible to find a television ...

Every afternoon after school, Shahid Zaidi would end up at his father’s studio Zaidis Photographers, and seek the coolness of ...

Maverick, unpredictable, volatile, albeit a visionary and cold-bloodedly authoritarian who struck gold at an early age in the anachronistically medieval ...

While social scientists generally complain about the paucity of good social science literature coming out of Pakistan in the last ...

As an old proverb goes ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. So is obscenity. In 2018, the Kerala ...

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

The two novels written by Haroon Khalid Akhtar are deceptive. They are anything but simple reads. As they say, never ...

On Thursday, the CSBE released the updated curriculum for the 2022-2023 academic year, which contained several unusual deductions. Most notably, ...

Arshad Waheed’s latest novel in English language, ‘Other Days’, is an eventful story from Pakistan, weaved around two woeful events ...

Fiction is stranger than reality. It is a mirror to contemporary society, a vehicle to express the sufferings of humanity ...

Human being is not just a name given to a biological being with a body. In fact, humans are different ...

Raza Rumi: Welcome to Think Fest Conversations, and it is a great pleasure and honour to be with Senator Sherry ...

A few months ago, I came across a publishing house that had just released Ephemera by Peerzada Salman as an ...

“What might it be like to live without cinema?” Pakistan has had a complex relationship with cinema and by beginning ...

For those of us who live in Karachi, we are definitely acquainted with and have spotted Peerzada Salman at a ...

Sadequain was an iconic cult persona of his time. His symbols are blatant like his poetry. He was a master ...

Pakistan has been juggling the roles of a progressive Islamic republic along with the dual image of a nation that ...

Terrorists armed with nuclear weapons are the bad actors in this novel. The dramatisation is so compelling that the novel ...