Category: Pakistan

Maniza Naqvi on Saving Karachi’s Oldest Bookstore

Maniza Naqvi at Literary Hub: Back in December 2016, I was sitting in my office…

Resolutions and Realities: Between 1940 and 2024

Minority becomes majority Javed Jabbar at Dawn: In 2024, as in 1940, we, too, have…

The X Ban

Waqas Ahmed at The Express Tribune: Former (Pakistani) senator Farhatullah Babar (chief of PPP’s human…

Rectifying the Past, Neglecting the Present

Top court endorsed what everyone knew since Bhutto’s hanging: it was a miscarriage of justice…

Laila and Majnu

Early morning today, while reading Laila Majnu — an age-old love story turned into a…

‘Siri Paye’-by Habib Khan

Habib Khan from Quetta: I had been to the Kaghan valley twice in the nineties…

Meanwhile in the PM House

Caretaker PM Kakar Sahib seen simulating his departure from the PM House, as the new…

‘Election Heist’

The Economist, March 14, 2024: Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party (PML-N) is back in…

Skeletons in the Closet

Irshad Salim: In the Summer of 2020, I shared one of the many moments and…

Z A Bhutto: Incomplete Justice

Will the judges remain in their ivory towers or see the reality of political injustice…

Asif Ali Zardari: The Prince of Guile

Even his rivals acknowledge that Zardari is a deal-maker par excellence. He has been written…

Dr. Abdul Samad Baloch | ڈاکٹر عبدالصمد بلوچ

Dr Yarjan Abdul Samad, PhD is a Senior Research Scientist and a Teaching Fellow at…