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In his latest memoir, British author Ziauddin Sardar reflects on love, loss and language as he remembers three women who
The coconut gives oil, water, milk and meat. Getting to any of it requires years of waiting and, eventually, someone willing
‘My Father Does Not Listen To My Advice’
Some dishes soar, some fall short and the ambience does a lot of the heavy lifting — but Mizu still earns its place at Karachi’s
From Barack Obama to Imran Khan, political history shows that mass appeal rarely translates into effective governance.
As faith in global institutions erodes, must a new hegemon rise or is an alternative possible?
In her latest body of work, Shanzay Subzwari transforms loss into a meditative visual language rendered in luminous colours
Roy Medvedev, who died in February this year, lived through nearly the entire Soviet century — and spent most of it insisting
Dina Patel grew up watching her parents race across Pakistan’s desert terrain. Now 22, she has become the country’s first female
When Cyrus the Great defeated Babylon, he handed the exiled Jews something they had not had in decades…
The trope is not the result of a personality flaw in individual storytellers. It is a narrative technique. And from Robinson Cruso
Pakistan’s dependence on imported petroleum is a structural crisis exemplified by how oil price spikes always send the count
A naval historian revisits the Battle of Gettysburg during the US Civil War and shows how logistics, leadership and luck decided
Few trees reward a grower’s patience quite like the coconut palm. But getting it right starts early…
‘My ‘Friends’ Bully Me’
Iran says even their angels don’t know who Trump is talking to. Butterfly has a diagnosis, a treatment plan and the number of a...
Drawing upon botanical imagery, Sabah Husain’s works create a lyrical archive of nature, loss and cultural remembrance
By overlaying the golden ratio on to photographs of violence, Aroosa Rana re-frames how we look at images of conflict and
A Pakistani woman’s experiences of participating in collective prayers at mosques in Istanbul stand in stark contrast to her...
“I was roaming around the streets when fate brought boxing to me,” exclaims Qudratullah, looking back at how he...
Pakistan is recalibrating its foreign policy by focusing on strategic realism and geo-economic priorities.
The ongoing ‘renovation’ of the shrine in Kasur of Sufi poet Bulleh Shah is mired in a shocking lack of vision — choosing pomp...
By launching strikes on Iran even as negotiations were underway, Washington may have secured short-term military gains at the cost of long-term...
While authorities claim that the newly created National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) is ‘modernising digital law...
Lt Gen (retd) Talat Masood’s memoirs are a military man’s recollections about his own idealism and professional
From acclaimed Holocaust dramas to nationalist blockbusters, the strategic revival of past trauma can influence public perception.
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‘Should I Explain Myself to My Former Fiancé?’
With gas shutdowns a regular reality, these no-cook recipes are as useful today as they were when first learned decades ago…
From acclaimed Holocaust dramas to nationalist blockbusters, the strategic revival of past trauma can influence public perception.
From the “noonday demon” of mediaeval monks to Nietzsche’s “Great Noon”, midday has long symbolised moments of truth and reckoning
Saba Khan’s deeply poignant exhibition in Birmingham explores how the Mangla Dam’s construction triggered one of the largest
In 1613, the East India Company established its first major trading base in the Arabian Sea at Surat in Indian Gujarat. Another
The sport has changed the architecture of its engines, forced drivers to rethink aerodynamics and strategy, and switched
As the world observes the International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, Pakistan’s historically marginalised
New museums, revived public spaces, and growing youth participation in and engagement with the arts are reshaping Karachi’s...
A powerful debut novel merges suspense with emotional depth and captures the dangerous allure of acceptance in an age
Transplanting a coconut tree is less complicated than it sounds, but only if you know what you’re doing…
The true believers of the Republic lie awake at night, tossing, turning and wondering what exactly their rockstar revolutionary
‘My Friend’s Secret Marriage Troubles Me’
Country’s current political trajectory suggest that concessions to a populist leader may deepen, rather than resolve, Pakistan’s structural...
A British watercolour painting of an Italian residence in Peshawar reminds
An exhibition in Lahore wove botanical knowledge with narratives of displacement, environmental fragility and shared histories
A chef, an artist, an anthropologist and a photographer travel to Swat Valley and return with a zine — and a case that Pakistan
Unable to feature in the FIH World Cup’s previous two editions, the Pakistan hockey team have finally qualified for the next one,
A film about Shakespeare’s grief, his play about a prince wracked with doubt, a revolutionary musical and a walk along
Karachi’s history lives in the names of its neighbourhoods, each reflecting an episode in the city’s long and layered past.
December 27 began like any other day, but destiny had marked it for tragedy.
Mohammed Hanif’s deeply satirical new novel, set in the days following former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s
The US-Israel partnership has evolved from a strategic Cold War alliance into a religiously infused political project