Post-marriage pressure: ‘When will you have a baby?’
I got married a few years ago. Long before we were back from our honeymoon; long before we even unpacked most of our luggage, we started feeling “the great expectations” creeping into our life.Mostly,...
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The mystery that shrouds Liaquat Ali Khan's murder
On October 16, 1951, Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi's Company Bagh (also known as East India Company Garden) during a public meeting of the Muslim City...
View ArticleYour wedding ‘lehnga’ comes with a legacy of pain and injustice
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View ArticleCabbie bhaijaan: Being Indian but ‘almost Pakistani’ in Abu Dhabi
Yes, we love to mistrust each other. It is a Partition thing. We have fought four wars against each other, there's the ‘K’ word that crops up like chai pe charcha and now Sartaj Aziz has even dismissed...
View ArticleHealth crisis: Eating disorders are not ‘phases’
A friend complained of her daughter’s obsessive concern with weight and diet. We’d met at a gathering and her frankness led everyone to share their own experiences with weight control, diets and...
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12 stops: A Do-It-Yourself tour of Karachi
Karachi is not a tourist city anymore. Its streets today are not filled with tourists; there are no hop-on-hop-off buses running its length. The facades of the famous buildings are not lit up at...
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How Pakistani Americans can give back
When I first moved to the United States to pursue my university level education, I was surprised to see the two extremes of Pakistanis living here.On one hand were those who classified themselves as...
View ArticleHow Pakistani morning shows are keeping women 'where they belong'
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View ArticleFrom saffron to red: Welcome to Modi’s India
Last year, the world was fixated upon India when the general elections brought to power Narendra Modi, the former chief minister of the prosperous Indian state of Gujarat.Enthusiasts didn't tire of...
View ArticleFrom mystics to Marxists: Karbala in South Asian culture
There is history and then there is the memory of history. While history is preserved in annals, its memory comes down to generations through the interplay of culture, traditions and oral accounts.Every...
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The Peshawar weekend
Beautiful lawn prints. That was my biggest drive behind going to Peshawar. Seeing my Peshawari friends wear those ready-made shirts, which were rapidly finding their way to the stores, I decided to...
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We banned Fawad, Mahira because of Humsafar: Shiv Sena
India's far-right political party Shiv Sena has been known to make headlines for its rhetoric against Pakistan, but the radical group has now gone above and beyond any anti-Pakistan sentiments that...
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How Pakistan’s spelling mistakes could lead to fraud
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But, will it smell as sweet with another spelling?Spelling matters in writing, and even more so in record-keeping. But not in Pakistan, where misspelling...
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Mourning in the ancient imambargahs of Lahore
Lahore, one of the most flamboyant and pulsating cities of Pakistan, hosts a few iconic buildings of Shia Islam. Nestled in the midst of the walled city's network of narrow and bustling streets are the...
View ArticleWhy Pakistanis and Indians are in no position to mock each other
For the past few days, it has looked like Pakistan's biggest problem is communal incidents occurring across the border.From social media to mainstream news channels, to the general public; it seems...
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Chitral: Bringing Kalash back home
An article that was published in the New York Times last year sparked my interest in travelling to the picturesque and historical valley of Chitral, inhabited by a minority tribe known as the...
View ArticleRecreating Rembrandt: A new dimension of Pakistani art
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View ArticleHealth benefits — The pomp of pomegranate
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10 Facebook posts I’ll use my ‘dislike’ button for
Now that Facebook is working on the launch of a ‘dislike’ button, it is time to take up a far more important issue:How will this most cherished, long awaited button be used?To help you with that, we’ve...
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