Socialism’s stormy petrel
Raza Naeem on the politics and worldview contained in the work of Kaifi Azmi (1919–2002) by Raza Naeem “Stone Kaifi to
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Opinion
‘Bech de!’
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Many readers will recognise that the title of this column is borrowed from an online marketplace that
Read MorePakistan: where daily slaughter of women barely makes news
The stories of murdered women are recorded with grim regularity in one and half inches of a single newspaper column
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Ramazan package in Hunza: lessons to learn
Dr Reshma Perveen-Mosofir Today I woke up to photographs on my newsfeed on social media showing women sitting in a
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The Kargil Story
Najam Sethi reviews Nasim Zehra’s book From Kargil to the Coup: Events that shook Pakistan The Kargil story or “misadventure”
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Class politics 2.0
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT has been a decade since the political uprisings known as the Occupy movements burst onto the
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Blue Muslim wave in the US organizes for 2020
Maria Tirmizi When she tweeted out a customary Arabic prayer to mourn for the victims of the New Zealand mosque
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Of uniform education system mantra and U-turns
By Noor Akbar Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, Shafqat Mahmood after taking the oath of office and
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I have always quarreled with this word ‘activist’, says Arundhati Roy
Writing is the most appropriate way of expressing trauma and complications, and I will be the last one to make
Read MoreSocial justice, collective work panacea to societal ills in GB
Shahzaib Hassan “Man is by nature a social animal and that one who does not socialize in society is either
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PM hints at more cabinet changes after ‘batting order’ shuffle
Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that he would not hesitate to make more changes
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Amritsar, Quetta and Mardan varsity tragedies and our haunting silences
Dr Ammar Ali Jan April 13th is one of the darkest days in the chapters of our recent and distant
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The nation reboot
TOMORROW is Youm-i-Pakistan. A big military parade will be staged to remind 220 million people that the Pakistani nation is
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Let’s reflect as we hail Ardern
Abbas Nasir IF there were an opinion poll asking Pakistanis who their favourite leader is today, one could be certain
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Patriarchy strikes back
EVEN for a society that views most form of rights-based activism with suspicion, the backlash against Aurat March has been
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