What has happened with a leading channel is more than another line in the sand — it’s really a line now carved firmly on stone and it severely hurts Pakistan’s sustainable democracy project
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Travellers’ check
Being one of the three polio endemic countries, Pakistan is in the limelight again for all the wrong reasons
Read More »A huge victory
A political statement no doubt, the Sindh assembly’s landmark law that increases the marriageable age of girls from 16 to 18 is a step forward in so many ways
Read More »A colonial heritage
Should archives be a storage space for dumping files without a utilitarian end? A comparison of the myopic archives in Islamabad with the diverse ones in Sindh and Balochistan
Read More »Capital risk
The attack on Hamid Mir has exposed the ills the Pakistani media is currently faced with
Read More »Gojra again
This time the story has a new twist... an illiterate couple gets death sentence for sending a blasphemous text message in English language
Read More »Prisoners for peace
There are growing concerns that militants would increase pressure for release of their men and use the demand as a bargaining chip
Read More »Muslims in post-1947 India
The socio-economic condition of Muslims and communal conflict have both exacerbated rather than resolved with the partition
Read More »Unreluctant film-maker
Mira Nair’s completely Indian world with its own signs and signifiers
Read More »Seth who loves music
Fiction takes a back seat when two people interested in music sit together and talk
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