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...

sunday 60

Maruf Hasan

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...

sunday 20

Nadeem F. Paracha

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...

sunday 40

Suhaib Ayaz

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...

sunday 8

Rumana Husain

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

Dear Auntie, I am a 17-year-old boy who went to a cadet college from grades eight to 10. I left it in September this year. I had a knee injury...

sunday 10

From Inpapermagazine

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...

sunday 10

Qasim A. Moini

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...

sunday 1

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

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...

sunday 3

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...

sunday 1

Shazia Hasan

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...

sunday 3

Ijaz Chaudhry

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...

sunday 10

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.

30.11.2025 2

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 9

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

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 7

Zafar Masud

CLIFTONIA: THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

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

30.11.2025 1

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....

30.11.2025 10

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 4

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 6

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

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 7

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 1

Advertorial

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.

25.11.2025 2

Advertorial

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.

25.11.2025 2

Advertorial

FICTION : RETURNING TO THE PROMISE

Jeena Wada Khilafi Hai By Ghazi Salahuddin Aaj Publications ISBN: 978-969-648-128-7 194pp. Stories are ubiquitous and take on many forms. Even the...

23.11.2025 10

Nasir Abbas Nayyar

EXHIBITION: DEFYING THE ORDINARY

Early in November, selected artworks from the recent Arjumand Painting Award were on show at Islamabad’s Gallery 6. The exhibition featured not...

23.11.2025 10

Cosima Jane Brand

CHAI AND THE CITY

It is the smell of petrol and cardamom, of sea salt carried by lazy breezes and fried samosas from roadside stalls. It clings to your clothes, your...

23.11.2025 9

Sidra Nisar

SMOKERS’ CORNER: FEAR AND LOATHING ACROSS PARTY LINES

As political disagreements turn into social suspicion and emotional hostility, a new form of division is taking root around the world.

23.11.2025 3

Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: BLOOMS IN THE RAIN

Zephyranthes candida, commonly called white rain lily, belongs to a genus of about 70 species in the amaryllis family. Rain lilies are...

23.11.2025 2

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

TRIBUTE: EXPLAINING BANGLADESH

Badruddin Umar, who died in Dhaka on September 7, 2025, at the age of 93, was often introduced as a Marxist theorist and a figure of the...

23.11.2025 2

Dr Naazir Mahmood

ARTSPEAK: IN THE SAME BOAT

The Titanic was a magnificent luxury passenger ship that sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Its first class section had luxurious suites,...

23.11.2025 1

Durriya Kazi

EPICURIOUS: THE VEILED BIRYANI

It was at a culinary competition in Karachi in June this year that I first stumbled across purdah biryani. Biryani hidden behind a veil of baked...

23.11.2025 7

Shazia Hasan

CRICKET: LIFE’S A PITCH

Pakistan is probably the only cricketing nation where the discussion around pitches becomes bigger than debates on team selection or performance....

23.11.2025 7

Muhammad Abu Bakar Farooq

SOCIETY: POSTCARD FROM NAZIMABAD

On a recent excursion to the antique market in the vicinity of Zainab Market in downtown Karachi, I came across what looked like an old postcard....

23.11.2025 1

Umer Sheikh

REGION: HASINA’S HARSH RECKONING

A domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh has sentenced the country’s former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to death in absentia for crimes against...

23.11.2025 2

Shahzad Uddin

How NDRMF is responding to a deepening climate emergency

Pakistan’s climate emergency is no longer seasonal news. It is the defining reality of the country’s future. The scale and speed of climatic...

22.11.2025 1

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MILITANCY: BANGLADESH’S MILITANT PIPELINE TO PAKISTAN

Maruf Hasan

SMOKERS’ CORNER: SUPERSTITIONS AND STATECRAFT

Nadeem F. Paracha

ESSAY: THE DOPAMINE REPUBLIC

Suhaib Ayaz

EXHIBITION: SCRATCHING BENEATH THE SURFACE

Rumana Husain

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

From Inpapermagazine

NON-FICTION : Iran’s strategy of resistance

Qasim A. Moini

GARDENING: GOING WILD FOR STRAWBERRIES

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ARTSPEAK: DREAMING KARACHI

Durriya Kazi

EPICURIOUS: THE COOL BEANS OF LYARI

Shazia Hasan

TENNIS: THE GOAT OF PAK TENNIS

Ijaz Chaudhry

URDU’S BATTLE BETWEEN NASKH AND NASTALEEQ

Syed Muhammad Naqavi

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE UNCRITICAL THINKERS

Nadeem F. Paracha

FESTIVAL: A CITY’S READING HABIT ON DISPLAY

Sara Danial

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

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

EXHIBITION: THE ART OF SLEEP

Zafar Masud

CLIFTONIA: THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

Farid Alvie

EXHIBITION: AN ARTISTIC FEAST

Ayesha Majeed

ROCK CLIMBING: THE SPIRIT OF THE ROCK

Ayesha Latif

WILDLIFE: WHAT RANO LEFT BEHIND

Aniqa Atiq Khan

MATCHMAKING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

Anmol Irfan

HEALTH: WHEN DISINFORMATION CAN BE FATAL

Seerat Khan

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

Advertorial

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

Advertorial

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

Advertorial

FICTION : RETURNING TO THE PROMISE

Nasir Abbas Nayyar

EXHIBITION: DEFYING THE ORDINARY

Cosima Jane Brand

CHAI AND THE CITY

Sidra Nisar

SMOKERS’ CORNER: FEAR AND LOATHING ACROSS PARTY LINES

Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: BLOOMS IN THE RAIN

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

TRIBUTE: EXPLAINING BANGLADESH

Dr Naazir Mahmood

ARTSPEAK: IN THE SAME BOAT

Durriya Kazi

EPICURIOUS: THE VEILED BIRYANI

Shazia Hasan

CRICKET: LIFE’S A PITCH

Muhammad Abu Bakar Farooq

SOCIETY: POSTCARD FROM NAZIMABAD

Umer Sheikh

REGION: HASINA’S HARSH RECKONING

Shahzad Uddin

How NDRMF is responding to a deepening climate emergency

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