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A Pakistani Guide on Writing a News Report about Sexual Harassment in India

A step-by-step guide on how to write a news report in Pak­istan about sex­u­al harass­ment (or any oth­er crime or ‘sin’) com­mit­ted by an Indi­an celebri­ty.

India Upholds the Redline

Beyond the opti­mistic reas­sur­ances of ‘vision doc­u­ments’ and ‘joint state­ments’, and mul­ti­ple pho­to-ops for the wide eyed imag­i­na­tion of world peace, what have talks with Pak­istan ever achieved?

Pakistan Baffles the World Again

It was tout­ed as a diplo­mat­ic vic­to­ry, when Pak­istan PM Nawaz Sharif and India’s PM Naren­dra Modi met in Ufa in Rus­sia and agreed to exchange voice sam­ples to expe­dite the 26/11 tri­al.

The Bare Pakistan

I am Pakistan’s dis­as­ters
I am Pakistan’s resilience
His prej­u­dices
And fer­vor.

Discovering Lesser Known Side of China

Chi­na is not only a neigh­bor but an all-weath­er friend of Pak­istan. There is often exchange of del­e­ga­tions between both coun­tries for var­i­ous pur­pos­es. Despite that, very lit­tle is known about Chi­na in Pak­istan.

“We are overcoming history”

Ammara Ahmad talks to the Afghan ambas­sador to Pak­istan, His Excel­len­cy Janan Mosazai, about trade, ter­ror­ism, and crick­et.
Ammara Ahmad: A few months ago, you said that this is the ‘new chap­ter” for rela­tions between Pak­istan and Afghanistan. What exact­ly did you mean?

Damn You If You’re Gorgeous Bless You If You’re a Goon

The 17th Cen­tu­ry Bard of Avon would find lit­tle affec­tion and def­er­ence for his words in a nation which views all that comes from the West with skep­ti­cism.

The Reappraisal of Our Worldview

As a birth­day present on my 26th, Fazal and Ain, my two good and close New Jer­sey friends, showed me the Indi­an com­e­dy-dra­ma film, PK. Amani, their 5‑year old grand­daugh­ter, accom­pa­nied us as well to the cin­e­ma.

Democratic Deficit in Pakistan

Exis­tence of diver­gent point of views among peo­ple in a soci­ety regard­ing any aspect of life is inevitable. Appre­ci­at­ing and rec­og­niz­ing this mul­ti­plic­i­ty of views is an essen­tial ele­ment of a demo­c­ra­t­ic soci­ety.

PML‑N: A Reluctant Convert to Federalism?

While the osten­si­bly inex­orable slump of Pak­istan crick­et con­tin­ues, it has increas­ing­ly come to resem­ble and reflect the broad­er social and polit­i­cal behav­iour­al pat­terns.

Pakistan in the lab of Existentialism

Pak­istan is pur­port­ed­ly an ide­o­log­i­cal state; unique in her kind. Pak­istani nation­al­ism and exis­tence of state of Pak­istan is oft-jus­ti­­fied on reli­gious lin­ea­ments with­in doc­tri­nal domain of Islam­ic nation­al­ism. Nat­u­ral­ly, those who do not fall with­in this very domain ques­tion rai­son d’etre of Pakistan’s exis­tence. No effort has been done, unfor­tu­nate­ly, to test verac­i­ty of […]

Engaging Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law

From Aasia Bibi, RimshaMasih to Shama and She­hzad; blas­phe­my in Pak­istan hangs like a sword over Pakistan’s reli­gious minorities.However, amid the cas­es, there is a con­cert­ed effort under­way to push for reform regard­ing the blas­phe­my law in Pak­istan, by the name of Engage. A non-prof­it research and advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion, Engage is push­ing for the reform […]

The Spell of Silence: Cancellation of Event at LUMS and the Aftermath

The forced can­cel­la­tion of an aca­d­e­m­ic talk titled ‘Unsi­lenc­ing Balochis­tan’ at the Lahore Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­age­ment Sciences(LUMS) last Thurs­day has attract­ed much atten­tion in the news and social media. As a reac­tion to the can­cel­la­tion, stu­dents of LUMS have begun protest­ing state cen­sor­ship and clam­our­ing on the issue of aca­d­e­m­ic free­dom both on cam­pus and […]