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The leafy green but stony-faced Islamabad is probably the last city that comes to mind considering the rich diversity associated with Pakistan’s culture and heritage but that doesn’t stop ...

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Interview with actor, writer, director Osman Khalid Butt

We think of twilight as the mingling of the day and the night: a breathing space, sometimes calm, sometimes menacing, in which neither light nor dark prevails. But the name suggests something odder ...

A parallel history from the author of ‘The Conservationist’

Reaching out with music

The last show of the season at Islamabad’s Khaas Art Gallery ran on the 20th of May this past month. The show, titled ‘Kit and Kaboodle’, meaning a collection of things, featured ...

A novel by Cyrus Mistry: The story of a struggle for rights

Music is a wonderful form of resistance to terrorism and intolerance

The Constant Process of Creation

and other stories by Rukhsana Ahmad - This is good writing, if good writing is one that keeps you reading and makes you think

Khalid Iqbal: The father of modern realism in landscape painting in Pakistan

History is turned around as the author explores a fresh writing style in her newest novel

Innocently ignorant may find it salacious

Successful without successors

meri ajrak mera style

Some hit the right notes, some failed

Deepak Adhikari, our frequent contributor from Nepal, offers his take on four books that he read in 2013

Coca-Cola Pakistan announced the return of the nations’ most anticipated music platform, Coke Studio, at a press conference. A sixth season of exciting talent, diverse musical influences and ...

Waar Movie premiere

With a population of around 6,000, the Kalash tribe is the smallest group amongst the ethnic and religious minorities of Pakistan. Unlike other minorities, they live exclusively in a particular ...

He has big budget flicks (Charlie Wilson’s War, Iron Man, Star Trek) as well as TV (24, Supernatural, Grey’s Anatomy) to his credit

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