Off Beat

By Ayesha Majeed - It is a very common research that fathers generally have as much or more influence on many aspects of a daughter’s life as compared to the mothers. In most cases how “he approaches his own life will serve

By Rabia Ahmed - When the Mughal emperor Akbar's regular paan maker fell sick Akbar asked the son to prepare paan (betel leaf) for him.

By Ayesha Majeed - This is an attempt to frame the rich history of costumes and textiles that this subcontinent enjoyed in the reign of Mughal emperors (1526-1857). Their leisurely and relaxed life style

By Haroon Janjua - Rocking waves of tides strike the coast beneath the sweltering sun and a string of fishermen’s boats line the docks. Ibrahim Haideri describes the shanties and deplorable, squalid

By Rabia Ahmed - The Mayo Hospital is located on Hospital Road, at the time of its construction in 1870 a peaceful street in the midst of a beautiful town. It is now a dirty, overcrowded road with all the attendant pollution

By Yasir Habib Khan - Despite government’s rebuff, Ebola’s incursion looms dark in Pakistan as more than 100 Pakistanis working or trading in Ebola affected areas have returned to Pakistan during last two months.

By Mirza Khurram Shahzad - Exactly after two years when she was shot in the head, Malala Yousafzai became the second Pakistani ever to have won the Nobel. Though she shared the peace prize with the Indian Child rights activist Kailash

By Sidrah Roghay - In the historic October 21 rally in Karachi, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the young Pakistan People’s Party chairman, spoke strongly against the Taliban and extremism—for the two discourage critical thinking and push the

By Rabia Ahmed - Soranus, a Greek physician practising in Rome in the 2nd century AD wrote about patients presenting with soft bones and terrible deformities. Frustratingly, he didn’t know what caused this.

Heavy monsoon rainfall in the country has brought catastrophe in Kashmir and most parts of the Punjab as flash floods have displaced thousands of people from their homes, further inflicting huge financial losses to an ailing economy. Severe damage was caused by spillage from the Jhelum and