Publishing Pakistani fiction
IF you happen to be a Pakistani writer, particularly a writer of fiction, you are out of luck. As a recent discussion I had on the topic with several other…
Journalists under a climate siege
The media industry in Pakistan, as well as globally, is under siege – not from political forces or censorship, but from the relentless trudge of climate change. The logistics of…
Safety of journalists
It would not have been possible with Imran Khan, or his information minister. Media freedom was an anathema to the entire PTI lot; they tried to crush all opposing voices…
Safety of journalists
In the first month of the new year, the journalist community across the country has had to record its protest against the brutal murder of fellow journalist Hasnain Shah. According…
Pakistani electoral mosaic
With general elections due somewhere after mid-2018, the expectations of the people and the stakes thereof have evolved dramatically with the political scenario changing almost on a daily basis. The…
Jamil Jalibi, Haji Baghlol and Pakistani politics: Part – I
When Jamil Jalibi died last week on April 18, 2019, at the age of 92, Urdu lost an intellectual of high calibre whose books run into dozens – all of…
Father of the ‘modern’ Pakistani media
I’ve put commas around ‘modern’ because if Pakistani television fare is modern, we’ll have to redefine the term. So modern in this context means not advanced or progressive in thought…
Pakistani democracy and idealism
Pakistan is a security state – something that has led to many an ill in the country. It would have been acceptable if in the last 60-plus-years we had transformed…
The punishment for being a journalist
Pakistan has witnessed over 150 killings of journalists in the past 25 years, but that is hardly something that has ever bothered our successive governments. A report – ‘Crime and…
Conflict reporting
CONFLICT is an essential component of news. South Asia’s history is a tale of conflicts that have grabbed global attention. Media attention has been focused on conflict since 1979, when…
