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In reversing the status of the Hagia Sophia, Turkey’s President Erdogan has issued a challenge, not only to the secular...

Player development, proper infrastructure, funding, facilities for talent at the grassroots level and clubs are the pillars...

A daily-wage labourer struggles to get justice for his young daughter four years after she was raped and...

Through his latest exhibition, Muhammad Zeeshan provides job opportunities to those who have been severely hit by the...

The recently launched KB-19 e-catalogue is reader-friendly with interactive digital features...

Since the 1980s, Sindh has seen radicalisation and militancy challenging the deep-rooted Sufist creed of the province.

The crispiness of the golden noodles, topped with meat, prawns, vegetables and sauce, creates an authentic Chinese food...

‘A married woman is harassing me’...

All your gardening queries answered here...

A closer review of the recently-announced education policy material throws up many issues of concern.

A century ago, the now forgotten Lakki Marwat train station was a strategic stop in the vast network of railway lines laid...

Revisiting Pakhtunwali, the code of conduct which encapsulates the rich Pakhtun history and culture, reveals the true status...

Over the years, several personalities from the world of sports have been loved and followed by their fans not just for...

Josh Malihabadi and Hafeez Jalandhari were at polar ends of an ideological divide that led to a poetic crescendo at the...

The city is full of noise and chaos. Speeding cars, buses, motorbikes and rickshaws weave through any available gap,...

Time as a concept and reality has captivated many artists throughout the history of art...

The concept of the modern state is a fairly recent European construct and has been borrowed to project an ahistoric...

A look at some of the content from an approved Grade 2 textbook from the public schools in the Republic of Cliftonia...

‘I can’t study due to tensions at home’...

Planting hedges is a much nicer and far greener way of achieving privacy...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a historical novel attempts to take us inside the family life of the greatest...

How interesting, it is a text that begets aesthetic expressions in the sphere of visual creativity. Today, the several hundred...

A superb new book about a remarkable family of scholars fills in an important gap in our society’s spiritual, intellectual...

Despite his credentials as a conservative, religious scholar, Deputy Nazir Ahmad too fell victim to charges of blasphemy and...

A cultural collaboration between the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations and Nestle, this beautifully...

A collection of interlinked short stories about the residents of an apartment block explores the intricacies of modern lives...

Longing for anywhere else but the place I’m in is a feeling I’m deeply familiar with. During the lockdown it becomes more...

Amazing similarities between London of 1665 and New York City of 2020 are evidenced in Daniel Defoe’s classic book documenting...

August 1 was the 20th death anniversary of revolutionary Urdu poet Ali Sardar Jafri, who was influenced by both Marx and Iqbal...

A Booker Prize-longlisted author summons her younger self to write a semi-fictionalised autobiography...

One silver lining of the ongoing travel restrictions is that staying home has let me catch up with some reading....

Stephen Fry’s entertaining follow-up book about Greek legends features heroes who have made a far more indelible name for the...

A Turkish-origin scholar traces the stagnation of the Muslim world to the primacy of the ulema-state alliance...

A book that takes readers back to a time when Karachi was a cleaner, less crowded, spacious and better kept city. The author...

An English rendition of some of the Kashmiri folk tales captures the colloquial textures of the Kashmiri language and brings to...

A book challenges our understanding of how people identified themselves before the advent of nation-states...

Pervez Tahir’s monograph on an influential but controversial economist offers insights into some key issues in developme...

It seems that the world has finally begun to follow us. As has happened to Pakistan for decades unending — with a...

A serving general presents a largely fair and balanced view of Pakistan’s ongoing issues in its largest province and suggests...

Why are the country’s English-language fiction writers more celebrated abroad than at home?...