Hasan Zaidi
Excerpts from the essay ‘Certain Uncertainties: The Cultural Confusions of Pakistan’
Updated 21 Feb, 2022 04:46pm
He was celebrated for conceptualising the Khuda Ki Basti project in Hyderabad, reinvigorating the Sindh Katchi Abadis Authority.
Updated 30 Jan, 2022 12:03pm
Arif Mahmood’s handsome book of photographs taken at Sufi shrines over 32 years is not simply an ethnographic documentation...
Published 05 Dec, 2021 07:01am
Christian Philip Hollier Turner is the United Kingdom’s High Commissioner to Pakistan since December 2019. In the...
Published 07 Nov, 2021 07:03am
British diplomat praises the National Command and Control Centre for doing a good job of “navigating the pandemic”.
Published 03 Oct, 2021 07:08am
Edhi sahib was always restless, as if he were about to go someplace. He didn’t like the idea of sitting and chatting.
Updated 08 Jul, 2020 01:14pm
As the brother of former army chief Gen Asif Nawaz and a well-respected journalist and academic based in the United...
Updated 13 Jan, 2020 05:34pm
The feuds that defined the past 10 years in Pakistan and could influence the country in the coming decade as well
Updated 30 Dec, 2019 04:53pm
The 2nd Quetta Literary Festival was remarkable in particular for the quality of its audience, showcasing its political
Published 30 Jun, 2019 07:06am
KARACHI: Veteran journalist and broadcaster Idrees Bakhtiar passed away on Wednesday evening in Karachi after a ...
Published 30 May, 2019 07:03am
March 26 is celebrated as Independence Day in Bangladesh, once a part of Pakistan. Forty-eight years on, Pakistan...
Updated 24 Mar, 2019 02:45pm
The song's lyrics work because the musical structure they are encased in is so hauntingly evocative
Published 05 Sep, 2018 10:00pm
Eos offers the incoming Prime Minister an agenda of some critical issues confronting Pakistan today — what should be the
Updated 29 Jul, 2018 04:11pm
For a couple of years, Mohammed Hanif followed Asma Jahangir on her annual fact-finding missions to Balochistan.
Updated 11 Feb, 2020 09:50am
The defining image that encapsulated the importance of Asma Jahangir may have been that of her funeral
Published 18 Feb, 2018 06:53am
A debut collection of English poems allows its writer to address his personal obsessions
Published 04 Feb, 2018 06:56am
The British Red Arrows aerobatic team put on quite a show at Karachi’s Seaview beach and saved a parental bonding
Published 15 Oct, 2017 07:11am
Ayesha Karim, co-founder and COO of Alexi, explains how the service enlists the help of authors and other cultural
Published 01 Sep, 2017 07:54am
Dr Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University in the US, with a joint appointment...
Updated 08 Jul, 2017 03:52pm
Hasan Zaidi recalls the idiosyncrasies of Pakistan's greatest guitarist
Published 11 Jun, 2017 04:42pm
