On June 14, 2018 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published its first report on the state of human rights in Kashmir.As people on social media were......
Formerly vice-captain of Pakistan women’s cricket team, 26-year-old Bismah Maroof was appointed captain in September last year.Since her tenure, the team has played two ICC Championship series: one......
With manifestos, hundred-day plans and agendas making headlines recently, one can earnestly hope that all the promises made by political parties will, one day, be executed in their entirety and the......
It took two decades for Asma Nawab, 37, to walk once again on the sands of Karachi’s Clifton Beach.The vast expanse of the Arabian Sea is in many ways an apt representation of endless opportunities —......
Dear Sabika,It’s been several days since the school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, where you, a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student, were among the 10 victims.Since then, I’ve learned......
The village of Dera Chahal, named after a historical gurdwara located in the middle of the village, is being encroached upon from all sides.Located in Lahore district, on the Bedian Road that once......
I was a first year Associate at the investment bank where I worked, when my boss came out of his office."Where’s my little Taliban?" he asked.He said it in such a comical way, glasses sliding down......
As election season kicks off, once again we are starting to hear the evergreen demand before every election cycle: the creation of new provinces.Before taking a position on this issue, I am going to......
In the 21st century, we can note that Pakistani journalism has experienced an organic development of professionalism, periods of draconian suppression and frequently innovated new modes of resisting......
From where I sit in my wheelchair, the world seems a pretty insensitive place to a differently-abled person’s plight.I became paralysed from the neck down following a car accident in 2002 on the......
As I entered the samadhi of Sir Ganga Ram in Lahore, I took out my phone to photograph the small yellow, domed structure standing on one side of a vast enclosure.I managed to sneak in a couple of......
Last Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) sentenced additional district and sessions judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife Maheen Zafar to one year in prison for neglecting their 10-year-old......
In December 2016, Shahbaz Sharif declared (as he has many times before and since) that transparency and merit were the hallmarks of his government, and that the Punjab government’s zero tolerance for......
As they say, the second shoe finally fell for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). The disqualification of Nawaz Sharif is for life. That effectively means that the PML-N is in its post-Nawaz......
There is a lot to commend the Asim Abbasi-directed and Sanam Saeed and Aamina Sheikh-starring Cake for.There is its deftly constructed story, the varying strands of which creep up on you in an......
