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NON-FICTION: LOVE, LOSS AND MEMORY

In his latest memoir, British author Ziauddin Sardar reflects on love, loss and language as he remembers three women who

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Sadia Zulfiqar

GARDENING: CRACKING THE COCONUT CODE

The coconut gives oil, water, milk and meat. Getting to any of it requires years of waiting and, eventually, someone willing

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE : AUNTIE AGNI

‘My Father Does Not Listen To My Advice’

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EPICURIOUS: FAMILIAR ENOUGH TO LOVE

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

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Riffat rashid

SMOKERS’ CORNER: POWER AND POPULARITY

From Barack Obama to Imran Khan, political history shows that mass appeal rarely translates into effective governance.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

ARTSPEAK: UNRAVELLING THE FAIRY TALE

As faith in global institutions erodes, must a new hegemon rise or is an alternative possible?

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Durriya Kazi

EXHIBITION: SUSPENDED REALMS

In her latest body of work, Shanzay Subzwari transforms loss into a meditative visual language rendered in luminous colours

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Rumana Husain

IN MEMORIAM: LETTING HISTORY JUDGE

IN MEMORIAM: LETTING HISTORY JUDGE

Roy Medvedev, who died in February this year, lived through nearly the entire Soviet century — and spent most of it insisting

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Dr Naazir Mahmood

MOTORSPORTS: LEARNING TO DRIFT

MOTORSPORTS: LEARNING TO DRIFT

Dina Patel grew up watching her parents race across Pakistan’s desert terrain. Now 22, she has become the country’s first female

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Ali akber

HISTORY: WHEN PERSIA FREED THE JEWS

When Cyrus the Great defeated Babylon, he handed the exiled Jews something they had not had in decades…

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Masood Lohar

ESSAY: THE WHITE SAVIOUR

ESSAY: THE WHITE SAVIOUR

The trope is not the result of a personality flaw in individual storytellers. It is a narrative technique. And from Robinson Cruso

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Suhaib Ayaz

FINDING A FUEL WE CAN AFFORD

FINDING A FUEL WE CAN AFFORD

Pakistan’s dependence on imported petroleum is a structural crisis exemplified by how oil price spikes always send the count

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Ammar H Khan

NON-FICTION: THE BATTLE THAT DECIDED AMERICA’S FATE

A naval historian revisits the Battle of Gettysburg during the US Civil War and shows how logistics, leadership and luck decided

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Ahmad Faruqui

GARDENING: THE PALM FROM YOUR HANDS

Few trees reward a grower’s patience quite like the coconut palm. But getting it right starts early…

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘My ‘Friends’ Bully Me’

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DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: CRACKS EVERYWHERE

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: CRACKS EVERYWHERE

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...

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Moni Mohsin

EXHIBITION: NATURE AND MEMORY

Drawing upon botanical imagery, Sabah Husain’s works create a lyrical archive of nature, loss and cultural remembrance

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Amra Ali

EXHIBITION: THE HARMONY OF VIOLENCE

By overlaying the golden ratio on to photographs of violence, Aroosa Rana re-frames how we look at images of conflict and

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Rumana Husain

ESSAY: THE WOMEN OF THE MOSQUE

A Pakistani woman’s experiences of participating in collective prayers at mosques in Istanbul stand in stark contrast to her...

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Javeria Shakil-Kazim

BOXING: THE LINE COOK BOXER

“I was roaming around the streets when fate brought boxing to me,” exclaims Qudratullah, looking back at how he...

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Natasha raheel

SMOKERS’ CORNER: PAKISTAN’S PRAGMATIC TURN

SMOKERS’ CORNER: PAKISTAN’S PRAGMATIC TURN

Pakistan is recalibrating its foreign policy by focusing on strategic realism and geo-economic priorities.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

HERITAGE: SUBVERSION OF THE SHRINE

The ongoing ‘renovation’ of the shrine in Kasur of Sufi poet Bulleh Shah is mired in a shocking lack of vision — choosing pomp...

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Ayesha Latif

CONFLICT: BOMBING TRUST

By launching strikes on Iran even as negotiations were underway, Washington may have secured short-term military gains at the cost of long-term...

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Debak das

THE PROBLEM WITH THE PAK CYBERCRIME WATCHDOG

While authorities claim that the newly created National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) is ‘modernising digital law...

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Saddia Mazhar

NON-FICTION: A SOLDIER’S NATION

Lt Gen (retd) Talat Masood’s memoirs are a military man’s recollections about his own idealism and professional

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Muhammad Ali Siddiqi

SMOKERS’ CORNER: GHOSTS ON THE SCREEN

From acclaimed Holocaust dramas to nationalist blockbusters, the strategic revival of past trauma can influence public perception.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: ‘MY MANGO PLANT HAS DIEBACK DISEASE’

All your gardening queries answered here

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘Should I Explain Myself to My Former Fiancé?’

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EPICURIOUS: NO GAS, NO PROBLEM

With gas shutdowns a regular reality, these no-cook recipes are as useful today as they were when first learned decades ago…

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Shazia Hasan

GHOSTS ON THE SCREEN

From acclaimed Holocaust dramas to nationalist blockbusters, the strategic revival of past trauma can influence public perception.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

ARTSPEAK: MIDDAY MOMENTS

From the “noonday demon” of mediaeval monks to Nietzsche’s “Great Noon”, midday has long symbolised moments of truth and reckoning

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Durriya Kazi

EXHIBITION: THE SILT OF ‘PROGRESS’

Saba Khan’s deeply poignant exhibition in Birmingham explores how the Mangla Dam’s construction triggered one of the largest

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Aarish Sardar

HISTORY: THE ALMOST RISE OF GWADAR

In 1613, the East India Company established its first major trading base in the Arabian Sea at Surat in Indian Gujarat. Another

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Saeed Husain

MOTOR SPORTS: A FORMULA 1 REHAUL

The sport has changed the architecture of its engines, forced drivers to rethink aerodynamics and strategy, and switched

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Ahmed Affan

SOCIETY: BETWEEN VISIBILITY AND VIOLENCE

As the world observes the International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, Pakistan’s historically marginalised

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Zahra Naeem

KARACHI’S YOUTH AND THE SEARCH FOR CULTURE

New museums, revived public spaces, and growing youth participation in and engagement with the arts are reshaping Karachi’s...

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Arif Hasan

FICTION: FAME, AMBITION AND MANIPULATION

A powerful debut novel merges suspense with emotional depth and captures the dangerous allure of acceptance in an age

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Sara Danial

GARDENING: COCONUT IN THE CITY

Transplanting a coconut tree is less complicated than it sounds, but only if you know what you’re doing…

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

CLIFTONIA: BATTLESHIP INSOMNIA

The true believers of the Republic lie awake at night, tossing, turning and wondering what exactly their rockstar revolutionary

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Farid Alvie

ADVICE : AUNTIE AGNI

‘My Friend’s Secret Marriage Troubles Me’

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SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE MYTH OF UNITY

Country’s current political trajectory suggest that concessions to a populist leader may deepen, rather than resolve, Pakistan’s structural...

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Nadeem F. Paracha

DISCOURSE: AVITABILE’S GOR KHATRI

A British watercolour painting of an Italian residence in Peshawar reminds

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Saeed Husain

EXHIBITION: EMBROIDERY AS WITNESS

An exhibition in Lahore wove botanical knowledge with narratives of displacement, environmental fragility and shared histories

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Ayesha Majeed

CULTURE: A TASTE OF SWAT

A chef, an artist, an anthropologist and a photographer travel to Swat Valley and return with a zine — and a case that Pakistan

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Zahra salah uddin

HOCKEY: BACK ON THE TURF AGAIN

Unable to feature in the FIH World Cup’s previous two editions, the Pakistan hockey team have finally qualified for the next one,

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Ijaz Chaudhry

ESSAY: THE READINESS IS ALL

A film about Shakespeare’s grief, his play about a prince wracked with doubt, a revolutionary musical and a walk along

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Farrukh raza malik

CULTURE: KARACHI’S MEMORY MAP

Karachi’s history lives in the names of its neighbourhoods, each reflecting an episode in the city’s long and layered past.

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Muhammad Omar Iftikhar

THE LAST DAYS OF BENAZIR BHUTTO

December 27 began like any other day, but destiny had marked it for tragedy.

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Farhatullah Babar

FICTION: WHEN RUMOUR REFUSES BURIAL

Mohammed Hanif’s deeply satirical new novel, set in the days following former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s

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Huda imtiaz

TRUMP AND NETANYAHU’S CRUSADE

The US-Israel partnership has evolved from a strategic Cold War alliance into a religiously infused political project

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Nadeem F. Paracha