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NON-FICTION: THE SILENCE OF STATELESSNESS

NON-FICTION: THE SILENCE OF STATELESSNESS

A book of rare moral clarity and scholarly courage excavates the internment of over 80,000 Bengalis in Pakistan after the...

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Tahir Kamran

GARDENING: WHITE AS A LEAF

The aglaonema Super White is rare, imported and unlike almost any other houseplant in its colouring. It also happens to be...

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘I Wasn’t Consulted On My Marriage’

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DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: A QUESTION OF NOSE

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: A QUESTION OF NOSE

The failure to achieve a resolution in the US-Iran talks being mediated by Pakistan has an upside — at least Islamabad has opened

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Moni Mohsin

SMOKERS’ CORNER: LOSING THE PLOT

SMOKERS’ CORNER: LOSING THE PLOT

Western legacy media's inability to recalibrate reveals deeper institutional inertia that risks rendering it irrelevant.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

EXHIBITION: FELT HISTORIES

An exhibition centred on the craft of wool-felting weaves together narratives of memory, material, tradition and loss

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Umer Sheikh

EXHIBITION: WITNESS TO WAR

Through deceptively simple forms, Quddus Mirza’s latest work bridges the inner emotional world and the global theatre of violence

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Nusrat Khawaja

ENVIRONMENT: THE CARBON COST OF CONFLICT

ENVIRONMENT: THE CARBON COST OF CONFLICT

From Kuwait’s burning oil fields in 1991 to Tehran’s blackened skies in 2026, war has always poisoned the planet. But as global

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Faraz Khan

FOOTBALL: FIELDS OF PLAY

Four turf specialists from the US designed the playing fields for soccer’s biggest World Cup ever beginning in June

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John n. trey rogers

TRIBUTE: THE MAN WHO TAUGHT OTHERS TO SEE

TRIBUTE: THE MAN WHO TAUGHT OTHERS TO SEE

Photojournalist Raghu Rai, who has died aged 83, did not just photograph India. He helped a generation of readers, editors

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Shome basu

CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHILDBIRTH

Crisis Deliveries During the floods in Pakistan in 2022, nearly 33 million people were affected, including 6.1...

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REFORMING THE TRAINING

The public sector has run multiple integrated and specialised maternal and neonatal health (MNH) programmes to ...

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THE MIDWIFERY CRISIS IN PAKISTAN

THE MIDWIFERY CRISIS IN PAKISTAN

Behind Pakistan’s high maternal and infant mortality rates lies a fractured system, in which trained midwives are

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Zofeen T. Ebrahim

NON-FICTION: HUMANITY AGAINST THE MACHINE

A collection of essays takes aim at the pursuit of limitless growth, the constant drive to master nature and the expanding...

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Nauman Asghar

GARDENING: ‘CAN I GROW THE ASHOKA TREE IN ISLAMABAD?’

All your gardening queries answered here

26.04.2026 20

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘I Have Crippling Social Anxiety’

26.04.2026 40

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EPICURIOUS: A SAUDI SPREAD

A young trainee chef prepares an Arab feast…

26.04.2026 20

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Shazia Hasan

ARTSPEAK: KEEPING THE CANDLE LIT

Even in times of despair, the flame of hope is kept alive by those who have the conviction to take a stand

26.04.2026 20

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Durriya Kazi

EXHIBITION: THE TIMELESS ARAB VOICE

Dia al-Azzawi’s works continue to prove why he is regarded as a pioneer of modern Arab art and why his works continue to resonate

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Samar F. Zia

ESSAY: GAMENESS THEORY

We breed it into birds, dogs and horses. We honour it in soldiers, mountaineers and mothers. This trait has a name...

26.04.2026 30

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Suhaib Ayaz

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE RISE OF DEFENSIVE REALISM

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE RISE OF DEFENSIVE REALISM

As evidenced by Pakistan’s strategic recalibration, defensive realism is paying more dividends.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

HOCKEY: THE BOYS FROM BANNU

The Bacha Khan Hockey Club of Bannu recently became the first national club champion from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. But Bannu’s...

26.04.2026 30

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Ijaz Chaudhry

WORLD: WHY DID VIKTOR ORBÁN LOSE?

WORLD: WHY DID VIKTOR ORBÁN LOSE?

A populist autocrat, Orbán ruled Hungary for a 16-year stretch as its longest-serving prime minister. He was defeated in a...

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Matthew sussex

IN MEMORIAM: A MAN NO NICHE COULD HOLD

IN MEMORIAM: A MAN NO NICHE COULD HOLD

Raza Kazim, who passed away at the age of 96 on April 16 in Lahore, was a lawyer, philosopher, musician, educator and photographer

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Nasreen Rehman

THE WAR AGAINST IRAN AND PAKISTAN’S MOMENT

THE WAR AGAINST IRAN AND PAKISTAN’S MOMENT

As Washington and Tehran oscillated between escalation and diplomacy after the war imposed by the US and Israel on Iran, Pakistan

26.04.2026 40

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Ejaz Haider

NON-FICTION: ETHNIC COHESION AND DEVELOPMENT

A brief treatise by a well-known Pakistani economist explores the impact of ethnic friction on the success or failure of nations

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Safiya Aftab

GARDENING: BUTTON SHEDDING

From water stress to weak pollination, a number of factors can cause coconut trees to drop underdeveloped nuts — here’s what...

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

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‘Everyone Doubts Me After My CSS Exam Failure’

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CLIFTONIA: FOREST TALES

A very secret fable about a very secret cave, very secret guests and the machinery behind world-changing events…

19.04.2026 20

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Farid Alvie

INTERVIEW: PAKISTAN IN VENICE

As Pakistan gets ready to participate in the Venice Biennale for only the second time, Eos speaks with Faiza Butt, the artist...

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Syed Hasnain Nawab

ENVIRONMENT: SWALLOWED BY THE SEA

Once a thriving harbour town, Sukhi Bandar now lies beneath the Arabian Sea. Its disappearance tells a larger story — of a delta

19.04.2026 20

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Aakash santorai

FOOTBALL: FOOTBALL’S WASTED TIME

The ‘beautiful game’ is being spoiled by time-wasting — can anything be done about it ahead of the World Cup?

19.04.2026 20

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Carl singleton

POLICY: THE CASE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Pakistan frames its transport crisis as an affordability problem. It is actually an institutional one — and every fuel shock makes

19.04.2026 20

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Bakhtiar iqbal

SMOKERS’ CORNER: GEOPOLITICS OF THE PULPIT

As countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia move away from past Islamist frameworks, a new, more pragmatic regional identity is emerging.

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Nadeem F. Paracha

HOW PAKISTAN’S HIGHER EDUCATION WENT OFF TRACK

A bold national experiment once promised to transform Pakistan into a ‘knowledge economy.’ But, a little over two decades later...

19.04.2026 40

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Taha Ali

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

12.04.2026 20

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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

12.04.2026 20

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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

12.04.2026 20

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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.

12.04.2026 60

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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?

12.04.2026 20

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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

12.04.2026 20

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Rumana Husain

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

12.04.2026 30

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Dr Naazir Mahmood

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

12.04.2026 20

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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…

12.04.2026 40

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Masood Lohar

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

12.04.2026 30

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Suhaib Ayaz

FINDING A FUEL WE CAN AFFORD

The numbers tell us that a cheaper, cleaner future is within reach, if the state chooses to act before the next hit.

12.04.2026 30

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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

08.04.2026 40

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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…

05.04.2026 50

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘My ‘Friends’ Bully Me’

05.04.2026 50

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