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FICTION: TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

Tales of Agnimitra and Tamana By Amber Romasa Nagori Lightstone Publishers ISBN: 978-969-716-310-6 243pp. When I picked up Tales of Agnimitra and...

yesterday 20

Dawn (Magazines)

Rehana Alam

GARDENING: SAVING THE STRAWBERRY

It is not only humans who are attracted to crimson, juicy and aromatic strawberries. Birds, insects, small animals and even pests are tempted to...

yesterday 10

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

Salaam Auntie, I am a young girl from a middle-class family. I have been a brilliant student throughout my academic career. After my graduation, I...

yesterday 20

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From Inpapermagazine

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: RAT-A-TAT-TAT HORSE YEAR

Happy New Year’s everyone. I thought this was going to be the year of diamonds and rubies for me, but Kulchoo tells me this is the year of the...

yesterday 10

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Moni Mohsin

SMOKERS’ CORNER: RELEASING THE PRESSURE

The sentiment that ‘revolution was just around the corner’ serves as a poignant distillation of the 1960s ‘counterculture’ zeitgeist. It was a...

yesterday 20

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Nadeem F. Paracha

EXHIBITION: THE NEW IN MINIATURE

‘Perceptual Mirage’ marks a continuation of Waseem Ahmed’s long engagement with the miniature tradition as a critical contemporary language. Rather...

yesterday 10

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Noor Ahmed

DISCOURSE: MANOHAR AND MADONNA

Manohar Das (born in 1568), was a highly skilled and sought-after artist of successive Mughal ateliers, reaching artistic maturity in his late 20s....

yesterday 10

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Saeed Husain

IN MEMORIAM: KEEPER OF BALOCHISTAN’S CONSCIENCE

Back in 2010, when I first met Mama Qadeer at a local bank on Quetta’s Sariab Road, little did I know it would become a lasting connection. At the...

yesterday 20

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Akbar Notezai

FOOTBALL: NEW HOPES, OLD FEARS

The Pakistan women’s football team is all set to feature in the upcoming Fifa Series, a women’s football event to be hosted in Brazil, the Ivory...

yesterday 10

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Ayaz Khan

EDUCATION: EDUCATING PAKISTAN IN THE AI AGE

I was recently at a roundtable in Karachi of industry and higher education representatives, to discuss how Pakistan’s education system can better...

yesterday 20

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Salma A Alam

PAKISTAN’S WINDING ROAD TO THE BOMB

BHUTTO’S SUMMIT WITH SCIENTISTS I had not yet joined the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and was working as an information officer in the...

yesterday 10

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Farhatullah Babar

WORLD: TWO-AND-A-HALF YEMENS

Fighters aligned with the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist group in southern Yemen, raised their flags in the provinces of...

04.01.2026 5

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Andreas Krieg

EXHIBITION: THE INNER LENS

Photography has long functioned as both visual expression and confrontation. In moments of war and political upheaval, the photographer’s presence...

04.01.2026 4

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Umer Sheikh

HISTORY: DEOSAI: LAND OF GIANTS?

Everybody calls the Deosai Plateau the ‘land of giants.’ Even the Dawn correspondent in Gilgit wrote that it ‘is sometimes called the land of...

04.01.2026 30

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Salman Rashid

CRICKET: THE QUIETER, HARDER PATH

It had Champions Trophy 2017 written all over it, as Ahmed Hussain bucketed a skier at point to dismiss India’s Deepesh Divendran and seal...

04.01.2026 1

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Mir Shabbar Ali

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE MOB AND THE STATE

From Bangladesh to India and Pakistan, lynchings have become a grim substitute for justice, but South Asia’s mobs are not

04.01.2026 30

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Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: HARVESTING THE RED JEWEL

They are the jewels of romance: plump, heart-shaped strawberries, dipped in chocolate or shared by hand, their scarlet hue evoking passion and...

04.01.2026 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ARTSPEAK: THE LITTLE THINGS

The American poet Emily Dickinson said, “Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.” The words seem timid in a...

04.01.2026 2

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Durriya Kazi

EPICURIOUS: THE PAINDA BONDS

With a grandmother from Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, we cousins were all quite familiar with having the traditional comfort food painda (or...

04.01.2026 3

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Shazia Hasan

ESSAY: AIRPORTS AS MIRRORS

I am an airport person — not because I travel often, but because I love their peculiar atmosphere: the sense of transition, the emotion of crossing...

04.01.2026 2

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Zoya Nazir

LOSING THE PESHAWAR THAT I ONCE KNEW

Landing in my birthplace always gives me the feeling of a tired child resting his head in his mother’s lap, the comfort that says I’m home. This...

04.01.2026 3

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Majeed Babar

FICTION : Murder and history on the waves

Death on the Lusitania R.L. Graham Pan Macmillan ISBN: 978-1035021918 400pp. RL. Graham is the collective nom de plume of a husband-and-wife team...

04.01.2026 3

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Nadya Chishty-Mujahid

WHAT'S IN AND WHAT'S NOT

Want to be on the ball and go into 2026 knowing exactly what's cool, what's trending and what to avoid? Eos off ers its annual

28.12.2025 2

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From Inpapermagazine

SMOKERS’ CORNER: PAKISTAN'S PERMANENT GREY ZONE?

While the concept of the ‘hybrid regime’ traces its origins back to 1970, it was formally solidified in modern political science during the 1990s...

28.12.2025 3

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Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: ‘WHY ARE MY LILIES REFUSING TO BLOOM?’

Q. Based on your experience, which month do you think is the most suitable to plant strawberries in Islamabad? A. Strawberry plants undergo...

28.12.2025 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

NON-FICTION : Change and upheaval in the tribal areas

Political and Social Change in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Understanding Pashtun Youth By Naveed Ahmad Shinwari Routledge ISBN: 978-1032956091 246pp....

28.12.2025 3

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Zia Ur Rehman

CLIFTONIA: CLIFTONIAN CREATIVITY

The Way We Weren’t By Cliftonia Ali Published by A Random Penguin Pages: 32 Genre: Romance Rating: 5 stars Known for her brevity, Cliftonia Ali...

28.12.2025 2

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Farid Alvie

CULTURE: THE STAMP OF MIRZA GHALIB

In a letter dated November 22, 1952, Professor Syed Masood Hasan Rizvi Adeeb of Lucknow writes to Allama Syed Murtaza Hussain Fazil Lakhnawi, “...

28.12.2025 2

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Syed Muhammad Naqavi

PHILOSOPHY: THE EXISTENTIAL ELK THEORY

You might want to sit down for this one. About 100 years ago, a Norwegian philosopher named Peter Zapffe wrote what’s now considered one of the...

28.12.2025 30

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Suhaib Ayaz

EXHIBITION: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

There are exhibitions that simply present artworks, and then there are those that make you question the very act of looking. ‘Lines and Language’,...

28.12.2025 10

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Rumana Husain

HOCKEY: THE PRO LEAGUE DISASTER

Kicking off in 2019, the FIH Pro League is the flagship event of the International Hockey Federation. The event, held annually, is contested by the...

28.12.2025 20

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Ijaz Chaudhry

EXHIBITION: IDENTIFYING IDENTITIES

The group exhibition ‘Unfolding Identities’, curated by Mohammad Zeeshan Haider Jamali, was recently on display at ArtCiti Gallery in Karachi and...

28.12.2025 2

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Ayesha Majeed

IN MEMORIAM: REQUIEM FOR A SURVIVOR

Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, a former chief minister of Punjab and one of Pakistan’s most durable political survivors, passed away on December 16,...

28.12.2025 7

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Naazir Mahmood

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...

21.12.2025 2

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Akbar Notezai

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...

21.12.2025 5

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Nadeem F. Paracha

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...

21.12.2025 1

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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...

21.12.2025 1

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Durriya Kazi

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...

21.12.2025 10

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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...

21.12.2025 2

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Rehana Alam

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...

21.12.2025 2

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Hussain Dada

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....

21.12.2025 1

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Anushe Engineer

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,...

21.12.2025 2

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Farooq Babrakzai

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...

21.12.2025 1

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Nusrat Khawaja

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...

14.12.2025 10

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Moni Mohsin

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....

14.12.2025 10

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Salman Tahir

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...

14.12.2025 10

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Nadeem F. Paracha

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...

14.12.2025 20

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Syed Hasnain Nawab

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...

14.12.2025 7

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Ejaz Haider

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...

14.12.2025 3

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Sheheryar Khan

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 1

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Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid