Stories by Maleeha Hamid Siddiqui
As Karachi’s 120-year-old Ghulam Hoosain Khalikdina Hall and Library finds a new lease of life and becomes a public space again,
Updated 16 Jun, 2026 06:36pm
Behind the glamour of Pakistan’s island reality show lies an old script women know too well.
Published 07 Jan, 2026 01:32pm
The reality show Lazawal Ishq reveals just how deeply ingrained Pakistani socio-cultural norms are and how they hinder women’s
Published 04 Jan, 2026 08:58am
Two people narrate their experience with one finding a silver lining...
Published 23 Mar, 2020 07:09am
A cooking class that gives asylum seekers a chance to give back to the UK.
Updated 09 Feb, 2018 08:02am
These Bards of Facebook have bypassed picky editors of literary magazines and paved their own way.
Published 22 Mar, 2017 03:26pm
Some of the media characterisations during the Sehwan terrorist attack may have been exaggerations
Published 05 Mar, 2017 07:11am
Kishalay Bhattacharjee is the author of Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters that provides important...
Updated 13 Nov, 2016 10:43am
Extrajudicial killings are a global issue in which the vast majority of perpetrators are never brought to book
Updated 13 Nov, 2016 12:38pm
Qasim Aslam, co-founder of The History Project is radically changing the way we teach history.
Updated 23 Oct, 2016 11:01am
Conversation: “Trying to get individuals to appreciate what they have and preserve it, is the biggest challenge”...
Published 02 Oct, 2016 08:42am
Images on Sunday talks to the historian Dr Azfar Moin about Mughals, Sufis and shrine culture...
Updated 21 Sep, 2016 04:45pm
People are unaware of this fact because the history that is taught in Pakistan is from an ideological viewpoint.
Published 06 Sep, 2016 10:06pm
No longer dependent on the whims of picky editors of literary magazines, these bards of Facebook have bypassed them
Published 15 Aug, 2016 03:03pm
Their posts are shared by hundreds, followed by thousands and commented on by numerous; Facebook has given rise to a new
Published 14 Aug, 2016 08:10am
Urdu op-ed writers in newspapers blame the media for Qandeel Baloch’s murder
Published 31 Jul, 2016 07:15am
TV content is determined by revenues, ratings and is bogged down by a lack of creativity; can the small screen be
Published 26 Jun, 2016 07:09am
I AM afraid that is not the initial opinion I share of Calcutta, now Kolkata, with Mirza Ghalib when I arrive on the
Updated 20 May, 2016 08:29am
Before Partition Arora had opened a store with a loan of just INR100 at Jampur tehsil in DG Khan district.
Updated 03 May, 2016 09:51am
“Please come along and let us take you to mini-Pakistan in Kolkata,” says Bobby Firhad Hakim.
Updated 29 Apr, 2016 09:43am
