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PROFILE: A BALOCH TEEN WITH BIG DREAMS

Zunaira Qayyum, who will turn 15 in July next year, is currently reading Crime and Punishment, arguably the most well-known work of Russian master...

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Akbar Notezai

SMOKERS’ CORNER: OUT OF CONTEXT ORWELL

SMOKERS’ CORNER: OUT OF CONTEXT ORWELL

George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, explores a fictional totalitarian regime that maintains absolute power by...

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Nadeem F. Paracha

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

Dear Auntie, My struggle began years ago, back when I was in grade six and schools were closed due to Covid. I had a best friend back then. When...

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GARDENING: STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER

A successful strawberry harvest begins not with planting, but with patience. Properly acclimating your new runners — the long stems that grow from...

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ARTSPEAK: CONTROLLED BY DESIGN

Design is often considered a luxury, yet the reality is that nothing can be manufactured without first being designed. It can be as simple as an...

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Durriya Kazi

EPICURIOUS: THE CARDINAL’S FEAST

EPICURIOUS: THE CARDINAL’S FEAST

I often tease Cardinal Joseph Coutts, the second priest in Pakistan to rise to the esteemed position of cardinal, about his uncanny resemblance to...

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Shazia Hasan

FICTION : MELANCHOLIA AND SUSPENSE

Echoes of Sorrow By Raheel Ahmed Legacy Books ISBN: 978-627-7706-04-3 247pp. Echoes of Sorrow is written by Raheel Ahmed, who has also authored...

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Rehana Alam

SOCIETY: THE SHAPATAR BOYS OF KARACHI

SOCIETY: THE SHAPATAR BOYS OF KARACHI

It’s a situation most drivers on Karachi’s major thoroughfares have experienced, especially on weekend nights and public holidays: a ghost...

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Hussain Dada

NATIONAL GAMES: ‘THE OLYMPICS OF PAKISTAN’

NATIONAL GAMES: ‘THE OLYMPICS OF PAKISTAN’

The hallmark of a well-executed sporting event lies in the host city’s cultural and sociopolitical fabric blanketing the games in a warm welcome....

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Anushe Engineer

THE ASSASSINATION OF LIAQUAT ALI KHAN

THE ASSASSINATION OF LIAQUAT ALI KHAN

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime. — Diane Mott Davidson On Tuesday, 16 October,...

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Farooq Babrakzai

EXHIBITION: A FINAL ODE

EXHIBITION: A FINAL ODE

A posthumous retrospective of the artist Mashkoor Raza’s (1948-2025) work was held at Mainframe Gallery, Karachi. The show opened a window into the...

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Nusrat Khawaja

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: BASANT WITH STRINGS ATTACHED

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: BASANT WITH STRINGS ATTACHED

Haan, so yesterday, I said to Kulchoo, “Congratulations, beta.” “What for?” “For Basant,” I said. “What’s that?” he asked. Haw, look...

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Moni Mohsin

CULTURE: FADING INTO SILENCE

CULTURE: FADING INTO SILENCE

The night the last full Heer was sung in a village in Jaranwala, the moon was so bright that old men swore Ranjha himself had returned to listen....

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Salman Tahir

SMOKERS’ CORNER: UNPRECEDENTED TIMES

SMOKERS’ CORNER: UNPRECEDENTED TIMES

The belief that history is a critical guide for predicting the future is facing a severe test. The enduring idea is best encapsulated by former...

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Nadeem F. Paracha

INTERVIEW: THE FORCE BEHIND MOHATTA

INTERVIEW: THE FORCE BEHIND MOHATTA

Back in 2004, after fetching me and my sisters from our schools in Clifton, my mother unexpectedly careened the car towards Hatim Alvi Road instead...

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Syed Hasnain Nawab

RETHINKING PAKISTAN’S HIGHER DEFENCE

RETHINKING PAKISTAN’S HIGHER DEFENCE

“From Plato to Nato, the history of command in war consists of an endless quest for certainty…historical commanders have always faced the choice...

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Ejaz Haider

URBANISM: THE GEOGRAPHY OF PAKISTAN’S POPULATION GROWTH

URBANISM: THE GEOGRAPHY OF PAKISTAN’S POPULATION GROWTH

Urbanisation patterns over the past two decades dictate that the future is decidedly city-bound. The UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report 2022 shows...

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Sheheryar Khan

GARDENING: A QUIET RED REVOLUTION

GARDENING: A QUIET RED REVOLUTION

One extremely engaging and rewarding activity for any child is to pluck a ripe, juicy strawberry directly from the plant. This is possible due to...

14.12.2025 3

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

NON-FICTION : The examined life

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life By Agnes Callard Penguin Books ISBN: 978-024147619-2 405pp. We often encounter stories of people...

14.12.2025 3

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Nauman Asghar

WORLD: TRUMP’S VISION OF AMERICA IN THE WORLD

WORLD: TRUMP’S VISION OF AMERICA IN THE WORLD

The White House has released its national security strategy, a document put out by every United States (US) presidential administration in order to...

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Andrew Gawthorpe

MOTOR SPORTS: THE ALMOST GREATEST COMEBACK

MOTOR SPORTS: THE ALMOST GREATEST COMEBACK

A shes 1936-37: Australia lost the first two Tests under Don Bradman on home soil. In the third Test, on an atrociously wet pitch, he famously...

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Taha Goheer

MILITANCY: BANGLADESH’S MILITANT PIPELINE TO PAKISTAN

MILITANCY: BANGLADESH’S MILITANT PIPELINE TO PAKISTAN

Faisal Hossain told his family he had found work in Dubai. In reality, the 22-year-old from Madaripur, some 100 kilometres to the south of...

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Maruf Hasan

SMOKERS’ CORNER: SUPERSTITIONS AND STATECRAFT

SMOKERS’ CORNER: SUPERSTITIONS AND STATECRAFT

On November 14 of this year, The Economist’s sister publication, 1843, ran a feature on the controversial spiritual influence of Bushra Bibi — the...

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Nadeem F. Paracha

ESSAY: THE DOPAMINE REPUBLIC

ESSAY: THE DOPAMINE REPUBLIC

There’s a molecule that runs empires. Not gold, not oil, not even information, but something far smaller. It can fit inside a single thought. Yet...

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Suhaib Ayaz

EXHIBITION: SCRATCHING BENEATH THE SURFACE

EXHIBITION: SCRATCHING BENEATH THE SURFACE

I have followed Adeel Uz Zafar’s journey since his early days as a children’s book illustrator in the late 1990s — he even illustrated a few of...

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Rumana Husain

NON-FICTION : Iran’s strategy of resistance

Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History By Vali Nasr Liberty Publishing ISBN: 978-6277626693 408pp. It is very difficult to take seriously most...

07.12.2025 1

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Qasim A. Moini

GARDENING: GOING WILD FOR STRAWBERRIES

GARDENING: GOING WILD FOR STRAWBERRIES

Growing up in Karachi in the 1990s, it was unthinkable for most of us to have access to fresh strawberries. All one came across were artificial...

07.12.2025 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ARTSPEAK: DREAMING KARACHI

ARTSPEAK: DREAMING KARACHI

Last Sunday, a day-long festival was held at the recently renovated Khaliqdina Hall in the heart of the old city of Karachi. While Karachi’s public...

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Durriya Kazi

EPICURIOUS: THE COOL BEANS OF LYARI

Go to any locality in Karachi and you will find a multitude of food options, even for breakfast: from bakeries to sweetmeat shops. They range from...

07.12.2025 2

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Shazia Hasan

TENNIS: THE GOAT OF PAK TENNIS

TENNIS: THE GOAT OF PAK TENNIS

On November 29, after playing the doubles final of the ATP Challenger in Islamabad, Aisamul Haq Qureshi called time on his 27-year illustrious...

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Ijaz Chaudhry

URDU’S BATTLE BETWEEN NASKH AND NASTALEEQ

URDU’S BATTLE BETWEEN NASKH AND NASTALEEQ

Forty-five years ago, on December 6, 1980, Dr Ishtiaq Hussain Qureishi — then chairman of the National Language Authority (now the National...

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Syed Muhammad Naqavi

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE UNCRITICAL THINKERS

While it is wise to question everything in the information age, questioning the obvious is not an exercise in critical thinking.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

FESTIVAL: A CITY’S READING HABIT ON DISPLAY

Literary festivals often try to impress audiences with grand declarations about culture and community. The 10th Adab Festival in Karachi did not...

30.11.2025 2

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Sara Danial

GARDENING: ‘WHY IS NO GRASS GROWING UNDER MY ORANGE TREE?’

Q. I have a big orange tree in my lawn in Islamabad and it fruits well every year. The problem is that grass doesn’t grow below the tree and that...

30.11.2025 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

EXHIBITION: THE ART OF SLEEP

Going to sleep is a routine activity for all of us, or a lack of activity if you prefer to call it so. But the idea has never before attracted art...

30.11.2025 1

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Zafar Masud

CLIFTONIA: THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

Cliftonia’s finest minds offer their wisdom on the Republic’s founding document…

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Farid Alvie

EXHIBITION: AN ARTISTIC FEAST

As Lahore continues to bloom with art exhibitions in October and November, the city increasingly feels like a vast, ever-expanding art gallery....

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Ayesha Majeed

ROCK CLIMBING: THE SPIRIT OF THE ROCK

Rock-climbing, an outdoor adventure sport, is fast developing in Pakistan, and the hills around Islamabad provide the

30.11.2025 3

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Ayesha Latif

WILDLIFE: WHAT RANO LEFT BEHIND

The relocation of a brown bear called Rano from the Karachi Zoo to an Islamabad sanctuary is as much a glimmer of hope as it is

30.11.2025 2

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Aniqa Atiq Khan

MATCHMAKING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

Waseem and Ezza met in 2022 and immediately hit it off. Within a year, they were married. For most Pakistani couples, there’s nothing that stands...

30.11.2025 1

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Anmol Irfan

HEALTH: WHEN DISINFORMATION CAN BE FATAL

Vaccine campaigns have long been a controversial subject in Pakistan, from the fake polio drive organised by the CIA to track Osama bin Laden to...

30.11.2025 1

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Seerat Khan

Resecurity appoints Ammar Jaffri as senior advisor for their company in Pakistan

Resecurity strengthens its South Asia presence with the appointment of veteran cybersecurity leader.

25.11.2025 2

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Resecurity signs MoU with NED University to advance cybersecurity education and research

The collaboration focuses on building talent and driving innovation in Pakistan’s cybersecurity landscape.

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Global Cuisine Show returns with Michelin-star talent at FoodAg Pakistan 2025

TDAP brings back an expanded Global Cuisine Show with stronger international participation and Michelin-recognised chefs.

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