Siddique Humayun
The evil isn't limited to the finer restaurants; the horror stories lurking in Islamabad's outskirts are just as scary.
Updated 10 Sep, 2015 06:36pm
Where will these people go, if evicted forcefully, without a rehabilitation plan? The government doesn't have an answer.
Updated 29 Jul, 2015 07:51pm
It was with a mixture of relief and skepticism that I went ahead for a ride on the Islamabad-Pindi Metro bus yesterday.
Updated 05 Jun, 2015 06:43pm
After a full day at work, we go home, freshen up and step out to find that the city has officially become a graveyard.
Updated 11 May, 2015 07:24pm
The power of community participation in development was highlighted by Akhtar Hameed Khan through his famous Orangi...
Published 28 Nov, 2011 08:29am
Once I talked about Islam and its civilisation and one of the consistent comments was why I did not talk about the...
Published 21 Nov, 2011 04:42pm
I have hardly been one to follow the conventional routine, I sleep at 7 in the morning, wake up late afternoon, have...
Published 14 Nov, 2011 09:23am
So, Pakistan was recently accused of playing a “double game” yet again. This time in a documentary aired on BBC. It...
Published 31 Oct, 2011 07:15am
I wonder what humanity has stooped down to when I see people jubilating and celebrating the death of a man. Fine you...
Published 24 Oct, 2011 04:23pm
Today I will start my discussion with a question. It is perhaps one of those questions that never strike an ‘able’...
Published 17 Oct, 2011 06:40am
Ghosts have always intrigued humans; they form major characters in Hollywood story lines, reside unseen in the upper...
Published 11 Oct, 2011 08:43am
—Photo by Hussain Afzal/Dawn.com KuchKhaas (Islamabad) and Hast-o-Neest (Tradition, Art and Culture Center in ...
Published 26 Sep, 2011 12:06pm
The Pakistani society at various points seems inhumanely conservative. In the view of most of the world perhaps it ...
Published 19 Sep, 2011 08:56am
Our leaders – if that is the right word to use, tend to violate the law of this land on a daily basis. How do they ...
Published 05 Sep, 2011 07:30am
-Photo Illustration by Hasaan Haider/Dawn.com Once a year there is piety all around, obviously not literally though....
Published 29 Aug, 2011 04:02am
Johannes Tauler once said, “God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as...
Published 22 Aug, 2011 07:44am
I grew up in Islamabad at a time when there were barely any roads, let alone the carpeted under-passes and overhead...
Published 08 Aug, 2011 06:43am
The story of Karachi is a story of the good, the bad and the ugly of urban development. The good we have, the bad we...
Published 25 Jul, 2011 10:08am
So let’s talk about the movement of peasants, of workers, labourers, and the bread earners who are faced with...
Published 18 Jul, 2011 11:00am
Civilisation has always been of interest. I have had a strange attraction towards Plato since early school days when...
Published 11 Jul, 2011 08:12am
