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Tourism tends to be seen as a panacea for economic ills but it can have terrible fallouts for local communities

Rameen Shamim will lead Pakistan at the upcoming five-day Asian Cricket Council Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019

Despite getting higher education almost at the same rate as men, only a fraction of our educated women are entering

Muzzumil Ruheel’s calligraphic sculptures underscore how misunderstanding creates distance between people

Is ‘fascism’, a hugely destructive phenomenon of the 20th century, relevant today as anything more than a buzzword?

Most people experience the anxiety and fear of losing their memory. Schoolchildren, orators, stage actors and...

The story of biryani from the Mughal kitchen to the 21st century and how it gained popularity far and wide in the region

‘We are just not into each other’

Tips to grow chemical-free garlic in your gardens and pots

MUSHARRAF'S AGENDA: WHAT DID HE ACHIEVE?

Lack of awareness among citizens and poor implementation of the Right To Information laws keep the public from

The nonagenarian former Sri Lankan cricket board official Neil Perera is an unsung hero. His services for the promotion

The prevalence of mental illness has increased with unemployment and political and economic uncertainty, which can only

Drawing from the histories of resistance wars and guerrilla warfare, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. creates an archive

Creating abstract compositions around old photographs of her mother, Madam Noor Jehan, Nazia Ejaz looks anew at

The state, politicians and various influential segments of society are frequently accused of using religious propaganda.

The Ministry of Patriotism issues certificates for patriotism with due diligence

‘I am attracted to my colleague’

All your gardening queries answered here

A closer look at Balochistan's roads of change

A translated collection of articles by fellow writers, publishers and relatives about arguably the greatest short story

A debut novel from a celebrated poet shows glimpses of the gorgeous and original imagery and the elliptical and

An autobiography traces an exhilarating life spent in a ceaseless struggle to know, discover and inform

Dr Rakhshanda Jalil is one of those rare language scholars and literary translators who have an exceptional command...

Arundhati Roy is a fiction writer reacting to the world around her with facts, which is why her words have the effect

The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction will be announced on Oct 14, 2019. Here’s a quick recap of the shortlist to know...

A former career diplomat’s autobiography is full of sometimes hilarious and sometimes depressing anecdotes about

Despite the author’s considerable linguistic ability and acerbic wit, a very odd type of nervousness pervades this

In the course of my journey with Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s Divans, I noticed how he carefully chose verses ...

The most striking feature of the 6th Islamabad Literature Festival was that it provided a forum for open debate and bold

One may not agree with the author’s treatise about its origins, but the superb photography and historical context

A book takes the hot-button topic of match-fixing in cricket and handles it with great dexterity, providing tremendous

This August, the Hindu right-wing leader Narendra Modi provocatively revoked India-held Jammu and Kashmir’s (IHK)...

The withdrawal of the Nelly Sachs Prize to Kamila Shamsie devalues the prize itself, rather than diminish the stature

An insightful writer contemplates knowledge that cultivates wisdom, as opposed to the mere accumulation of information

The Key to the American Constitution Ali Tahir According to the author, a barrister from Lincoln’s Inn, law...

In the absence of a truly free press, a journalist lets readers draw their own conclusions about the 2018 elections

Umera Ahmed’s latest novel is all about simplistic binaries and the rejection of the world in favour of the author’s

As I drove through the unfamiliar suburb of Acton on a sunny Sunday afternoon, I was thinking how London, with its...

Despite sometimes mawkish dialogue and a lack of character development beyond its protagonists, a novel attempts