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Commemoration in Pakistan is an occasion for announcements.
On Friday morning in lower Manhattan, relatives will walk onto a small stage and read names aloud. There are 2,983 of them, and the reading will take...
Four women in a room, on a chai break during the final assignment of a personal development course. One of them was describing a country the other...
“When they speak of inquiries, of compensating families, of resilience, of rebuilding, we know what they’re not saying: that this was preventable,...
The airport crisis is a failure of decisions.
Name, hashtag, outrage, silence, name. The loop does not break.
Fourteen in a locked room https://arab.news/y2bz9 “When they speak of inquiries, of compensating families, of resilience, of rebuilding, we know...
Why would anyone recognise reporting as an independent act?
Zia’s Pakistan is the only one most women have known https://arab.news/yc8yy Four women in a room, on a chai break during the final assignment of a...
In Karachi, it has become exhausting even to complain.
What exactly did the Al Jazeera ban achieve?
Pakistan keeps redrawing the blueprint. It never finishes the building. https://arab.news/5up7n One Unit would end provincial rivalries. Basic...
Homer’s world still had a backstage where the mask could come off.
Nobody is logging the stress of no water for the third day running.
Belief, memory and ritual are harder to measure.
Why an old Obama clip still stings in South Asia https://arab.news/bupu9 A three-year-old interview rarely finds a second life. Yet over the past few...
The tax is gone but the shame at the counter remains.
A journalist in the midst of war is not a fixed identity.
Pakistan brokered the peace. Western media saw only oil https://arab.news/rt2fb When the United States and Iran reached their peace deal, Donald Trump...
Anti-rape laws exist. But the crime doesn’t stop.
Students are keeping the name of Palestine alive
We are morphing into versions of each other, and we have barely noticed.
When rape becomes a punchline https://arab.news/59cwt There is a particular kind of joke that doesn’t just offend — it reveals. Last week at the...
If a jam jar can bring us to Saddar, imagine what a restored city could do.
Whose histories, whose plurality, do we consider worth addressing?
Misogyny is not just a disease of the uneducated.
How we treat animals says something unambiguous about us.
Why are certain stories commissioned at certain moments?
Hospitality, like most things, has a direction.
What Pemra banned was part of our own soul.
The meme war isn’t resilience. It’s refusal.
Real antisemitism now has more room to breathe.
Resilience in Karachi is what’s left when hope has packed its bags.
The architecture of othering puts the soldier above the schoolgirl.
The world is rooting for Punch, not Gaza’s orphans.
There was no doubt who the aggressor was then. There’s no doubt now.
The test is not who is speaking but what they are saying.
We’ve forgotten how to criticise with precision.
Grief when denied doesn’t disappear. It shifts.
Is it a ‘new era of cleanliness’ or an ‘elite luxury’?
We are disappearing from each other’s lives.
A building is more than concrete; it is a vessel of layered experience.
The gap between perception and reality in media has widened.
The premise of movies like ‘Anniversary’ is not far-fetched.
One can seize the moment and look towards the future.
Unstructured playtime fosters a sense of community and camaraderie.
The fashion industry has impacted women’s low self-esteem.
There’s a need for news literacy classes at the school level.
This solitude means young people aren’t hanging out in person.
We find pleasure and profit in someone else’s shaming.