Gujjar, Orangi and Original Sin
Karachi is a creature of the Frankensteinian variety – assembled by stitching together body parts from a dozen different corpses. Body parts that shouldn’t go together but have been forced…
What set Haseena Moin apart?
Haseena Moin has been a watershed for Pakistani TV plays. When she died on March 25, 2021, at the age of nearly 80, she left millions of fans sad and…
An uncertain future
Prior to the 2018 elections, the PTI promised heaven-like conditions and a bright future for when it came into power. It is close to a year now since the party…
Don’t surrender to mob rule
AN inflammatory video filmed just after the Aasia Bibi verdict has received well over five million views. Therein you can watch the TLP leadership calling for the murder of the…
Capital suggestion: Reforms
Reform means the “improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt or unsatisfactory”. Pakistan is at point A where there’s plenty that is ‘wrong’; corruption is rampant and governance is…
One Pakistan
The PTI has come up with a new, powerful slogan for the next elections – Do Nahi Aik Pakistan, Hum Sab Ka Naya Pakistan (Not two, one Pakistan – a…
Time for the justice of Solomon
We have run out of options. The time has come for Imran Khan to take charge of this country as the prime minister of Pakistan. There are six months left…
A lamp lit in the dark
The nation owes a collective vote of thanks to their lordships Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh and Justice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court for passing an order – a…
Cousin Afghanistan
Part - VI Afghanistan is neither our brother – like China, Saudi Arabia or Turkey – nor our bitter enemy – like India. Pakistan should not even dream or try…
Contesting culture
In 2004, while the Muttahida-Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) was governing KP, a puritanical vigilante group called Tehreek-i-Nijaat-i-Fahashi launched a crackdown against musicians in Peshawar. Under deepening conservatism patronised by the religio-political alliance,…
