Arifa Noor
The PTI is comfortable in the knowledge that the government is scoring an own goal.
Updated 26 Nov, 2024 09:44am
The sartorial choices of politicians reflect the larger political culture of the party they head.
Updated 19 Nov, 2024 09:40am
Cities cannot become concrete jungles of flyovers and interchanges and still have clean air.
Updated 12 Nov, 2024 09:57am
Will the voters be as disillusioned with Imran Khan as they were with Nawaz Sharif?
Updated 05 Nov, 2024 09:56am
While CJP Chaudhry had space to call officials to account, CJP Isa’s court couldn’t take such liberties.
Updated 29 Oct, 2024 09:35am
A seat in parliament is apparently worth a lot more than the rights of the people of Pakistan.
Updated 22 Oct, 2024 09:39am
Perhaps one can say that the three transitions are now the main cause of instability in Pakistan.
Updated 15 Oct, 2024 09:38am
The powers that be seem to have evolved as much as the country and the people have.
Updated 08 Oct, 2024 09:29am
Is it only recent governments that deserve to be called ‘hybrid’?
Updated 24 Sep, 2024 09:05am
When did we all become convinced that it was going to happen?
Updated 17 Sep, 2024 09:41am
The party’s popularity forces a resentful acceptance of its existence.
Updated 10 Sep, 2024 09:40am
The manipulation by those in power is now about as subtle as Mr Bean’s expressions.
Updated 04 Sep, 2024 08:55am
Because social media cannot be put in a cell, the other choice is to curtail it.
Updated 20 Aug, 2024 09:22am
While there is perhaps an absence of strong student unions and organisations in Pakistan, it is not simply due to bans on them.
Published 13 Aug, 2024 09:12am
The Baloch protest has taken on a new intensity, though the issues being focused on aren’t new.
Updated 06 Aug, 2024 08:58am
After all, this is a state and society which has never been comfortable with women who want to take their fate into their own hands.
Updated 30 Jul, 2024 08:56am
For months now, there have been whispers that PTI’s rank and file is getting worked up.
Updated 23 Jul, 2024 09:19am
We face institutions and men in charge who are still not ready to heed the message.
Updated 16 Jul, 2024 09:35am
This sense of despair is not even recognised by those ruling us, who continue to talk down to the people, or rather at each other.
Updated 09 Jul, 2024 09:12am
For those stuck in the purgatory called the tax net, hell couldn’t really be any worse.
Updated 02 Jul, 2024 09:07am