Stories by Irfan Aslam
This year, filmmaker Mahnoor and actor Madhu have so far distributed more than 1,000 to 1,500 plants since the start of Muharram.
Published 19 Jul, 2026 07:02am
Poet Waqas Khwaja highlights ‘woefully substandard’ research, need for decolonisation and other issues
Published 14 Jul, 2026 07:00am
Rights defenders criticise the proposed Punjab law as a tool for political repression, saying it reverses the presumption of innocence and expands state powers.
Updated 10 Jul, 2026 08:44am
LAHORE: Speakers at a symposium here have highlighted the shortcomings in the education system in the country that...
Published 19 Jun, 2026 06:56am
LAHORE: Hamama Tul Bushra, a painter settled in the US, has come up with a strong feminist message in her solo show...
Published 29 Mar, 2026 07:07am
The 14th Lahore Literary Festival put its focus on history and in diversifying away from English but was impacted by scheduling
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:45am
LAHORE: There is a constant lament about the dying reading culture in Pakistan as well as across the world,...
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:06am
LAHORE: Historian Sam Dalrymple says when he came to Lahore for the first time in 2015, he found it very similar to...
Published 09 Feb, 2026 08:08am
“If incidents like Jan 31 happen, then security forces will take action, and there is a possibility that some of the people taken into custody could be innocent,” he says.
Updated 09 Feb, 2026 01:47pm
LAHORE: One of the stars of this edition of Lahore Literary Festival was Indian-Canadian film director and writer...
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:38am
LAHORE: British historian Robin Lane Fox opened the 14th edition of the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) with his...
Published 07 Feb, 2026 05:29am
The author shared glimpses of his new book during a session of the ThinkFest in Lahore on Sunday.
Published 26 Jan, 2026 04:58pm
Lawyers Asad Rahim Khan, Abdul Moiz Jaferii, Reema Omer and Salman Akram Raja dissect the recent amendment.
Updated 26 Jan, 2026 11:31am
LAHORE: After the confiscation of Urdu translation of his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, one might have thought...
Published 26 Jan, 2026 06:20am
LAHORE: BBC journalist Zeinab Badawi, Nukta editor Amber Rahim Shamsi and Azad Essa of Middle East Eye discussed the...
Published 26 Jan, 2026 06:20am
LAHORE: Speakers in a session on two books, one by academic Pervez Hoodbhoy and the other by trainer and stand-up...
Published 25 Jan, 2026 06:02am
LAHORE: Christophe DE Contenson, mayor of Couzon, France, chairman and co-founder of the International Development...
Published 25 Jan, 2026 06:02am
Director Seemab Gul speaks about film-making challenges
Published 13 Dec, 2025 05:43am
Director Seemab Gul spoke about the challenges of filmmaking as well as her achievements against the odds.
Published 12 Dec, 2025 06:13pm
• Filmmaker Shehzad Nawaz urges narrative reclamation to combat image problem • Actor Attiqa Odho calls for cross-border collabo
Published 11 Dec, 2025 07:23am
