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GARDENING: ‘MY COCONUT TREE HAS NOT FRUITED IN A DECADE’

GARDENING: ‘MY COCONUT TREE HAS NOT FRUITED IN A DECADE’

All your gardening queries answered here…

25.10.2026 30

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

EPICURIOUS: THE STUFF OF PEPPERS

EPICURIOUS: THE STUFF OF PEPPERS

Whether green, red or yellow, capsicums are versatile kitchen staples. Try them stuffed with spiced mince and rice, or packed

25.10.2026 20

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Shazia Hasan

ADVICE : AUNTIE AGNI

ADVICE : AUNTIE AGNI

‘My Home Life is a Source of Stress’

25.10.2026 30

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From The Newspaper

SMOKERS’ CORNER: WHY POLITICAL RADICALISM EATS ITSELF

SMOKERS’ CORNER: WHY POLITICAL RADICALISM EATS ITSELF

From revolutionary France to contemporary Pakistan, radical movements have repeatedly demonstrated how the pursuit of political absolutism can become...

25.10.2026 90

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Nadeem F. Paracha

EXHIBITION: ALTER EGOS

EXHIBITION: ALTER EGOS

In his first major European solo exhibition, Salman Toor explores desire, cultural identity and distance

25.10.2026 20

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Aarish Sardar

ARTSPEAK: ERASING THE PAST

ARTSPEAK: ERASING THE PAST

From the ruins of Mughal Delhi to Karachi’s disappearing heritage, the destruction of the past has long served as a means of power

25.10.2026 40

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Durriya Kazi

CULTURE: IBN BATTUTA AND THE LIZARD OF SINDH

From a dish that horrified Ibn Battuta to sanday ka tail, the humble desert lizard has acquired an extraordinary place in South

25.10.2026 30

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Masood Lohar

FOOTBALL: THE NOT SO FUNNY MONEY SAGAS

FOOTBALL: THE NOT SO FUNNY MONEY SAGAS

An investigating commission has found Manchester City guilty on 114 of the 115 charges of financial irregularities.

25.10.2026 30

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Taha Goheer

INFRASTRUCTURE: DERA ISMAIL KHAN’S SOLAR REVOLUTION

INFRASTRUCTURE: DERA ISMAIL KHAN’S SOLAR REVOLUTION

From specialised solar markets to farmers abandoning diesel-powered irrigation, an unreliable grid is driving a new economy

25.10.2026 30

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Manzoor Ali

WORLD: WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN US MIDTERMS?

WORLD: WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN US MIDTERMS?

Americans are pessimistic about the country’s direction and inflation remains a major concern. The midterm elections on Nov 3 will

25.10.2026 20

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Paul Whiteley

LOOK BACK IN ANGER… AND HOPE

LOOK BACK IN ANGER… AND HOPE

The recently published memoirs by Mahnaz Rahman detail her life as a journalist, leftist activist and rights advocate, presenting

25.10.2026 30

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Mahnaz Rahman

NON-FICTION: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

How did a group of notoriously difficult-to-read French philosophers become intellectual rock stars on American campuses? A former

18.10.2026 60

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Arif Azad

GARDENING: GROWING THE GOLDEN SPICE

With warmth, moisture and patience, a humble rhizome can yield a fresh harvest of golden turmeric in your own garden

18.10.2026 150

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: GOING RABBIT

Bombs are falling in the Arabian peninsula, the US continues to wage war, India is on an arrest spree and even

18.10.2026 30

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Moni Mohsin

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘I Feel Lost After My Grandmother’s Death’

18.10.2026 30

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From Inpapermagazine

SMOKERS’ CORNER: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

Decades of contradictory policies towards the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban have left Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mired in insecurity.

18.10.2026 80

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Nadeem F. Paracha

EXHIBITION: RIVER, CITY, COSMOS

Three artists from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh use art as a living archive of memory and change at a newly opened exhibition

18.10.2026 30

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Arfa Shahid

EXHIBITION: BEYOND THE SPARKLE

Yaseen Khan has developed a distinctive artistic language around chamak patti

18.10.2026 20

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Rumana Husain

ESSAY: AN AI KILL SWITCH?

Climate change was supposed to be our undoing. Turns out we found a quicker way, and the people building it are the ones sounding

18.10.2026 200

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Zofishan Umair

ATHLETICS: PATHS TO GLORY

For Pakistan’s first women triathletes at the Asian Games, the competition was about more than medals. It was about simply showing up.

18.10.2026 80

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Madeeha Syed

SOCIETY: BALOCHISTAN’S UNENDING CYCLES OF POVERTY

For agricultural workers in Balochistan, a lifetime of labour may still not be enough to escape poverty.

18.10.2026 50

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Imtiaz Baloch

ECONOMY: The Missing Entrepreneur of Sindh

The problem in rural Sindh may not be a lack of capital, but its concentration — and the failure to create the conditions in which small businesses...

18.10.2026 30

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Nadeem Khalid

THE NUMBERS BEHIND PAKISTAN’S RAPE CASES

Pakistan’s Anti-Rape Act, enacted in 2021, promised faster trials and a more effective system of justice. Yet, an examination of provincial and...

18.10.2026 70

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Riazul Haq

ESSAY: BOOK FANS AND SCREEN ADAPTATIONS

Fandom is increasingly becoming an essential part of how book-to-film adaptations are marketed

14.10.2026 30

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Julia Szivak

GARDENING: TURMERIC HOLDS NO TERRORS

Widely used in South Asian cooking and traditional practices, turmeric is also an uncomplicated crop to grow at home

12.10.2026 30

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘My Talkative Roommate is Disrupting My Studies’

12.10.2026 60

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From Inpapermagazine

EPICURIOUS: A KARACHI PIZZA CRAWL

From airy Neapolitan pies to crisper New York-style slices, Karachi’s pizza scene has grown to accommodate a surprisingly diverse

12.10.2026 100

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Riffat Rashid

SMOKERS’ CORNER: False Flags and Credibility

Governments have often used media conditioning and false flag operations to make the public more amenable to their agendas.

12.10.2026 50

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Nadeem F. Paracha

ARTSPEAK: THE ART OF THE UNSETTLED

Long before historians arrive at their conclusions, poets, musicians and artists are already recording the anxieties, losses and

12.10.2026 30

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Durriya Kazi

EXHIBITION: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

Through green-tinged interiors and isolated figures, Usama Toru’s artwork examines the loneliness that can exist in a crowd

12.10.2026 30

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Hira Shahid

SOCIETY: THE KITCHEN OF ISLAMKOT

For as long as the kitchen continues to serve anyone who arrives at its doors, Sant Nenuram’s tradition of seva will live on — one meal and one...

12.10.2026 30

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G.r. Junejo

HOCKEY: HOPE AND REALITY

For now, the most urgent question remains unanswered: why does a team with the ability to come back from the brink so often put itself there in the...

12.10.2026 30

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Ijaz Chaudhry

TECHNOLOGY: KEEPING AI UNDER CONTROL

The 1983 film WarGames imagined a computer pursuing its given objective with potentially catastrophic consequences. Today’

12.10.2026 40

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Deven Desai

ESSAY: THE SURNAME DOES NOT FIT

What happens when a family retains its ancestry but loses the language associated with it? For an Urdu-speaking Pakhtun family

12.10.2026 40

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Fareha Iqtidar Khan

UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE OF WAR

While studying an ongoing war is crucial, it is important to remain wary of applying its lessons to every case.

12.10.2026 100

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Ejaz Haider

FICTION: NO PLACE TO CALL HOME

An Afghan man is repeatedly buffeted between Pakistan and Afghanistan in a slim novel, finding neither country an uncomplicated

04.10.2026 50

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Rehana Alam

GARDENING: PREPPING FOR WINTER BLOOMS

From choosing the right seeds to protecting young seedlings, a few simple steps can help gardeners prepare for a colourful winter

04.10.2026 50

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

CLIFTONIA: LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE

Jimmy Jirga’s YouTube channel reminds us of an English knight who was the first to acknowledge the Republic’s potential

04.10.2026 50

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Farid Alvie

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘My Family Has Rejected My Career Change’

04.10.2026 40

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From The Newspaper

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE MAKING OF HAMAS

Israel’s relentless efforts, across decades, to weaken secular Palestinian resistance to its occupation of Palestine by backing

04.10.2026 200

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Nadeem F. Paracha

EXHIBITION: THE MANY LIVES OF SALIMA HASHMI

A major retrospective in Lahore brings together six decades of Salima Hashmi’s work, shaped by memory, history, politics

04.10.2026 40

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Ayesha Majeed

FIRST PERSON: THE THIRSTY TRAVELLER

In 1974, Hassan Ali G. Rammal wrote Pyaso Pravasi, a Gujarati poem about the pursuit of knowledge. Decades later, his son looks

04.10.2026 40

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Anwar Rammal

CRICKET: INTRODUCING THE CBI

Strike rate alone was never built to answer the question that actually matters to T20 captains, coaches and selectors: did the batter make and execute...

04.10.2026 40

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Muhammad Sohaib Iqbal

POLICY: THE ISLAMIC DEBATE OVER CRYPTO

The debate over cryptocurrency in the Muslim world is still evolving, raising questions not only about digital assets but about the nature of money...

04.10.2026 40

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Taha Ali

GOVERNANCE: THE TRANSPARENCY GAP

Pakistan has laws guaranteeing citizens access to information and commissions meant to enforce them. But when those watchdogs are

04.10.2026 40

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Naeem Ahmad

WHY PAKISTAN SAVES IN PLOTS

As families pour their savings and remittances into plots, a weak mortgage system, under-valued transactions and a cash-heavy economy are turning...

04.10.2026 70

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Ammar H Khan

FICTION: MURDER AND EMPATHY

Richard Osman’s latest slow-burn thriller continues his trademark balance of humour and morbid mystery, tapping into something

27.09.2026 50

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Sara Danial

INFRASTRUCTURE: THE LAST STOP

Long waits, overcrowded buses and unsafe infrastructure are only part of the daily commute for Karachi’s working women.

27.09.2026 50

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Samina Hassan Laghari

MOUNTAINEERING: THE CHANGING MOUNTAINS

Glaciers are retreating, routes are shifting and rockfall and avalanches are becoming more common.

27.09.2026 90

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Madeeha Syed

HISTORY: READING AMBEDKAR AND JALAL ON THE IDEA OF PAKISTAN

Was the demand for Pakistan only a bargaining strategy for greater Muslim power in an undivided India, as historian Ayesha Jalal

27.09.2026 70

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Sara Malkani