Time to add more faces
There are times when the police are just not efficient enough. In the latest blunder, they were guilty of arresting the wrong Ayesha Mumtaz in Lahore, and letting the real…
Nigeria facing ‘tomato Armageddon’ over crop infestation
Rose Edet never thought buying tomatoes for her busy Lagos restaurant would be an issue. But the rising cost is causing her a headache and affecting her customers' favourite Nigerian…
The vulture king
The first edition of Bano Qudsia’s novel highly canonised novel ‘Raja Gidh’ (The Vulture King), dedicated to Qudratullah Shahab, hit the stalls in 1981. Since then, on average, a new…
The Jewish vote
According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, there are around 800 Jewish voters registered in Pakistan out of which 427 are women and 382 men. This statistic seems odd because…
