Tag: people

Shikarpuris were not only skilled businessmen but also famed for their philanthropy and social service – building schools, hospitals, wells, ...

The people of Pakistan today appear to be passengers on the doomed ocean liner the Titanic, plunging head-on into a ...

Urban gentrification is the process of revitalisation and modernisation in semi-urban neighbourhoods into vast luxurious and posh residential societies to ...

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived”—Robert Jordan If asked to ...

Journalist and author Anuradha Bhasin has broken the uneasy silence that has prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir for the past ...

Modern-day Pakistani society is suffering from crises like terrorism, extremism, intolerance and polarisation. In this context, a cultural festival with ...

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

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari, has started ...

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

Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran is a marvelous historical fiction novella about the close relationship between religious people and capitalists ...

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

Yasir Masih is a 30-year-old man working in a large-scale organisation in Pakistan as a sanitary worker. He has been ...

Sara Danial: You see cricket as a collective cultural expression of society – that the sport entails political discourse, social ...

In my first conversation with Nawab Akbar Bugti, he cited Ibn Khaldun. I was curious as to where the Nawab ...

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

Uncle Ben’s iconic words to Peter Parker aka Spiderman “with great power comes great responsibility” have transitioned into an oft-heard ...

How does one write about what can only be experienced? As a polity we have lost all empathy: this is ...

Once upon a time, many decision-makers here in the land of pure ensured that our very own Pakistani Bengalis must ...

Radical politics, traversing the various strands of Anarchism and Communism with somewhat loathsome practical incarnations, always offered inextricable resistance to ...

As the flood kept on ravaging Pakistan's provinces relentlessly – and especially Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa more violently of late – rather than ...

Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...

The crisis gripping the people is loud and clear – with flash floods and torrential rainfall this time. It has ...

Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the ...

As Pakistan approaches its 75th birthday, the future seems uncertain. Generally, this ought to be a time for celebration. A ...

The most scenic valley of Ovir Lisht, Chitral, is always in dangerous of a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) event. ...

After watching the classic South Pacific, I was convinced that the South Seas, with their golden sunsets, were the closest ...