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Respected Auntie, I am a gazetted officer in a well-reputed public sector organisation, where the source of income is limited to the salary. A few...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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, “...

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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...

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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’,...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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 20

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...

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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 2

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

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 3

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 20

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

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 6

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

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

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

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

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

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 10

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 6

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

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

Nauman Asghar

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...

14.12.2025 5

Andrew Gawthorpe

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...

14.12.2025 3

Taha Goheer

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

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

07.12.2025 6

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...

07.12.2025 1

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...

07.12.2025 8

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 2

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...

07.12.2025 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...

07.12.2025 2

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

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...

07.12.2025 2

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...

07.12.2025 3

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 2

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 1

Zafar Masud

CLIFTONIA: THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

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

30.11.2025 3

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 3

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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WHAT'S IN AND WHAT'S NOT

From Inpapermagazine

SMOKERS’ CORNER: PAKISTAN'S PERMANENT GREY ZONE?

Nadeem F. Paracha

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

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

NON-FICTION : Change and upheaval in the tribal areas

Zia Ur Rehman

CLIFTONIA: CLIFTONIAN CREATIVITY

Farid Alvie

CULTURE: THE STAMP OF MIRZA GHALIB

Syed Muhammad Naqavi

PHILOSOPHY: THE EXISTENTIAL ELK THEORY

Suhaib Ayaz

EXHIBITION: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Rumana Husain

HOCKEY: THE PRO LEAGUE DISASTER

Ijaz Chaudhry

EXHIBITION: IDENTIFYING IDENTITIES

Ayesha Majeed

IN MEMORIAM: REQUIEM FOR A SURVIVOR

Naazir Mahmood

PROFILE: A BALOCH TEEN WITH BIG DREAMS

Akbar Notezai

SMOKERS’ CORNER: OUT OF CONTEXT ORWELL

Nadeem F. Paracha

GARDENING: STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ARTSPEAK: CONTROLLED BY DESIGN

Durriya Kazi

EPICURIOUS: THE CARDINAL’S FEAST

Shazia Hasan

FICTION : MELANCHOLIA AND SUSPENSE

Rehana Alam

SOCIETY: THE SHAPATAR BOYS OF KARACHI

Hussain Dada

NATIONAL GAMES: ‘THE OLYMPICS OF PAKISTAN’

Anushe Engineer

THE ASSASSINATION OF LIAQUAT ALI KHAN

Farooq Babrakzai

EXHIBITION: A FINAL ODE

Nusrat Khawaja

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: BASANT WITH STRINGS ATTACHED

Moni Mohsin

CULTURE: FADING INTO SILENCE

Salman Tahir

SMOKERS’ CORNER: UNPRECEDENTED TIMES

Nadeem F. Paracha

INTERVIEW: THE FORCE BEHIND MOHATTA

Syed Hasnain Nawab

RETHINKING PAKISTAN’S HIGHER DEFENCE

Ejaz Haider

URBANISM: THE GEOGRAPHY OF PAKISTAN’S POPULATION GROWTH

Sheheryar Khan

GARDENING: A QUIET RED REVOLUTION

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

NON-FICTION : The examined life

Nauman Asghar

WORLD: TRUMP’S VISION OF AMERICA IN THE WORLD

Andrew Gawthorpe

MOTOR SPORTS: THE ALMOST GREATEST COMEBACK

Taha Goheer

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

NON-FICTION : Iran’s strategy of resistance

Qasim A. Moini

GARDENING: GOING WILD FOR STRAWBERRIES

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

ARTSPEAK: DREAMING KARACHI