Broke and beautiful in Bollywood
There is grumbling in Bollywood and it is getting louder — top female actors are getting paid a fraction of what their male counterparts get. The latest reminder comes in this article. While Shahrukh...
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The Crying Woman of TV: An inspirational history
The Crying Woman is a famous Pakistani TV actress. She has appeared in over a hundred TV plays in almost exactly the same role with different names and different getups. Nobody knows her real name but...
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Malala: The 17-year-old girl inside all Pakistani women
I have worked in the news business for almost a decade now, and frequently seen bomb blast footage of human bodies ripped apart beyond recognition; the blurring of the faces of little girls and boys,...
View ArticleAnti-PTI ads – illegal, unethical, and on-air?
"Imran Khan is a vitriolic, power hungry political beast out to do all he can in pursuance of his goals, including undermining the parliament, sabotaging the economy and even destroying Pakistan if...
View ArticleDisabled by Pakistan's criminally negligent doctors
It is no secret that doctors and medical teams in Pakistan are often guilty of blatant medical negligence when it comes to treating patients, especially in life-saving procedures. Medical audit laws...
View ArticleThe crow is white, Bengal is Pakistan
Most Pakistanis feel uneasy coming to terms with the reality that is Bangladesh. They hide themselves behind a shoddy narrative of 1971, and neatly categorise the whole thing as a 'conspiracy'. It...
View ArticleDoes Mohammad Hafeez merit a spot purely as batsman?
When rookie middle-order batsman Haris Sohail put in a match-winning 'all-round' performance in the first ODI between Pakistan and New Zealand in Dubai, many may have wondered whether Misbah-ul-Haq had...
View ArticleRevisiting 1971: The crow is white, Bengal is Pakistan
Most Pakistanis feel uneasy coming to terms with the reality that is Bangladesh. They hide themselves behind a shoddy narrative of 1971, and neatly categorise the whole thing as a 'conspiracy'. It...
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Revisiting 1971: Bengali, Indian, Muslim, Poor, Farmer
Most Pakistanis feel uneasy coming to terms with the reality that is Bangladesh. They hide themselves behind a shoddy narrative of 1971, and neatly categorise the whole thing as a 'conspiracy'. It...
View ArticleHow to spoil a hockey victory
All the Pakistan hockey team had to do, was smirk and walk away, letting the scoreboard do the talking for them. Instead, they sent the world a reminder that the principle of ‘sportsmanship’ isn't a...
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Revisiting 1971: What if they elected traitors?
Most Pakistanis feel uneasy coming to terms with the reality that is Bangladesh. They hide themselves behind a shoddy narrative of 1971, and neatly categorise the whole thing as a 'conspiracy'. It...
View ArticleThe cultural charades of our losing middle class
As Khan continues his protests aimed at bringing down the government, in the urban areas of Pakistan, people are raising a number of questions about the state of our society. Among these questions is...
View Article5 awful responses to Sana Mirza’s harassment at the PTI rally
When a female journalist is reduced to tears for being hooted at, and having trash thrown at for covering a political rally, the appropriate response is to condemn the incident and distance oneself...
View ArticleRevisiting 1971: Fear, force, fury and a thin Bengali's smile
Most Pakistanis feel uneasy coming to terms with the reality that is Bangladesh. They hide themselves behind a shoddy narrative of 1971, and neatly categorise the whole thing as a 'conspiracy'. It...
View ArticleOf lions and sheep: The problem with PML-N’s narrative
The protesters have been labelled enemies of the state. The protestors have been labelled as foreign conspirators.The protestors have been labelled terrorists. At least the government is consistent in...
View ArticlePakistan's schools of sorrow
They began the day in their school uniforms, they ended it in burial shrouds. On the morning of December 16, 2014, it was exam time at the Army Public School in Peshawar and most of the students were...
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Inside Army Public School, once upon a time...
The author is a former student of the Army Public School in Peshawar.Once you enter the gates of the school, there is a long straight road ahead of you, with a playground to the right of the road and...
View Article16/12/14: Never forget
As condemnations from political leaders began to roll out (like paper does from a photocopying machine), one immediately felt that in spite of such automated and cyclostyled exhibitions of grief that...
View ArticleOur denial killed children in Peshawar
There is no sight uglier than a child’s corpse. I can say this because I have seen one dying before my eyes. When a child dies, no words can console the grieving hearts of parents. And a cowardly...
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What have we left to fear for? We have already buried our sons
I wish I could say, “We didn’t see it coming.” But that would be a lie. We saw it coming, but chose to ignore all the warnings until it was too late to prevent our children from being murdered before...
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