Not the whole truth
Statistics do not reveal the whole truth, especially if they relate to crime. State functionaries, especially the law-enforcement agencies, try to hide behind the numerical façade in order to project…
Being human in Bollywood
Alia Bhatt is barely out of her teens and is just one-film-old in Bollywood parlance. The star was recently in the news with bigwigs such as superstar Salman Khan and…
State’s failure
A THRONG of men encircle leaping flames. They are energised, holding mobile phones aloft to capture the moment. By now, we all know what they are filming, and we are…
Living statues
THE streets of Karachi are witnessing a new form of child exploitation: children performing as living statues. Children as young as six are covered in silver or gold paint from…
Hysteria triggers or analyses?
THE phrase used to be ‘paralysis by analysis’, when someone was guilty of overanalysing a situation or individual. But even then such an exercise was harmless, if boring, with the…
PIA’s revealing story
THE PIA sartorial advisory to its staff has attracted global attention and inquiries asking if it was fake. Even if fake, the incident is not an aberration in the new…
Zille Shah was special indeed
YET another tragedy of our times. Political worker Ali Bilal, aka Zille Shah, a diehard Imran Khan supporter, has been killed, his broken, tormented body abandoned at the Services Hospital…
The fault lies not in our stars
IT takes a humanitarian crisis to overshadow the political crises that engulf us most of the time. And if the advent of Covid-19 was one such moment where for a…
Immunity in Narnia
In the saga of legal escapades, President Asif Ali Zardari pulls off a spectacular move, invoking Article 248 of the constitution. This provision suspends ongoing legal proceedings against him, kicking…
Blinding rage
BLINDING pretenders to the throne has been an age-old favourite in our part of the world. In addition to making the aspirant an example for other external adventurists and curbing…
