Archive for August, 2012

By Shabbir Ahmed Mir –  Residents of Gilgit are forced to consume unfit water as means shrink and disease spreads but authorities look the other way It wasn’t the first time Mariam’s five-year-old son was admitted in critical condition to a hospital for acute stomach pain. Her two kids had already gone through the same […]

By Aamir Saeed –  Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s directives for identity recognition, the transgender community remains at the receiving end of societal bigotry Sitting in the lobby of a singleroom rented house, Shazia Chaudhry is desperately waiting for customers inviting her to perform at a wedding or birthday. She has no other source of income. […]

By Dr Hassan Askari Rizvi - Pakistan and the United States resolved a major crisis last month when Islamabad reopened the transit route for U.S./Nato supplies in Afghanistan. The supply route was suspended after the U.S.

By Shaukat Qadir - Osama bin Laden had been ailing for some years. However, his physical and mental state (the latter bordering on dementia) began to deteriorate exponentially, after the US invasion of Afghanistan and, by 2003, he had

By Rasul Bakhsh Rais - One of the major issues that has destabilised Pakistani politics is changing of political affiliations, loyalties at a critical juncture to bring down an elected government by causing it to lose majority in the

By Aurangzaib Khan –  Pashtu film culture, at once, evokes images of loud, vulgar portrayals and wild film buffs. A tantalizing look at the on-screen effrontery On an overcast Saturday when film billboards brandishing guns and gore look strangely subdued in the face of a gathering storm, the air in Arshad Cinema in the heart […]

By Zia Bangash - Last year, former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi ended his decade-old loyalty with the ruling Pakistan People’s Party to join Imran Khan’s ‘promising’ Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf. Irrespective of what political

By A Rahim Khan –  U.S. audiences may be reluctant at first to return to cinema halls but the dark knight rises stock will very likely go unaffected by the shootings Headlines rolled like a B movie reel, the venerable Fox News in their usual bad taste, announcing in the paroxysm of a voice over, […]

By Suhaee Abro If the society isn’t patient, we certainly are. As artistes, I believe every little move we make can lend hope to other enthusiasts out there and ultimately, herald a change In 1926, the beautiful statuette of ‘The Dancing Girl’ was excavated from the ruins of Moenjodaro in Pakistan, which was sculpted around […]

By Anum Yousaf –  Behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo – The narrative is so novelesque that one often forgets that this is not fiction Writing is tricky business but writing about poverty is probably the trickiest. A white person from the developed world writing nonfiction about poverty in the third-world — well, let’s […]