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Information is being continuously updated in a pandemic but there is still a lot of confusion, with unverified claims...

There’s a debate going on in the cricketing world about perhaps allowing the use of artificial substances to shine a cricket ball in the post-coronavirus world...

Commercial air travel has always carried its own stringent rules and anxieties. But if you dreaded it before, wait till you hear what it will entail now...

For once, Nahid Raza’s perennial subjects — women — don’t look angry and defiant. They come across as cool, calm and collected...

Amidst a global pandemic, the art community can comfort audiences by revisiting utopian ideals...

Whether it is a birthday or a special event, a tart makes a great centrepiece for any celebration...

‘My future husband lacks ambition and drive’...

Blight is caused by a fungal infection and like all fungi, they are spread by spores and require damp and warm weather conditions to thrive...

After romancing the Arabs, we are now viewing our Muslim character through Ottoman lenses, quite forgetting that...

Who will benefit from the recently-announced tax amnesty for the construction sector?

Could antibodies testing for Covid-19 help Pakistan conduct mass testing and allow smart-lockdowns to be put in place...

An epidemiologist who oversaw Getz Pharma’s antibodies testing explains what their findings mean and how they...

Former coach Roelant Oltmans has served Pakistan hockey enough to know what its strengths and shortcomings are. In an exclusive interview with Eos, he bares his heart...

Children are dealing with a lot of change, stress, and isolation as a result of the pandemic.

Laced with devotion to the healing qualities of nature, Fauzia Minallah’s artworks also carry meaningful messages...

Socialising the young to uphold collective values and behaviour was once the responsibility of a family or a tribe....

Instead of aiding the judiciary to come to a middle-ground, judicial activism has broken away and sprinted towards populism.

Try these simple and easy-to-cook dishes to beat the blues of social isolation...

‘I’ m married. How can I still study for my exams?’...

All your gardening queries answered here...

Tourism is one of the industries hit hardest by this coronavirus pandemic. Experts predict that foreign travel may...

Former BBC and FT correspondent Kim Ghattas traces the current problems of the Middle East to three key events from 1979...

Afzal Ahmed Syed has done great service to our literary heritage by excavating and translating vintage couplets from often unfairly dismissed poets...

Aamer Hussein’s first book of Urdu stories sustains his lifelong engagement of writing about the life of the other with aesthetic, narrative and ethical care...

A sociologist looks at the common problems faced by women in Pakistani society and shines a light...

Prof Navid Shahzad has recently recalled in one of her writings what George Orwell said soon after the Second World...

An award-winning author writes an accessible and entertaining book, chock-full of facts and historical...

An important contribution to Pakistan’s cultural history, a new book is more than a simple documentation of historic architecture

In this grim atmosphere of a worldwide pandemic and the numbing effect of lockdowns, reading Mirza Asadullah Khan...

A Ponzi scheme and the existential anxieties of rudderless, privileged North Americans, propel...

A book looks at the plight of Quetta’s Hazara community through untold and seemingly incomplete stories

Voyager: A Journey to Self and Love Khurram Shahzad

This debut collection of poetry is divided into two sections,...

Nadeem F. Paracha attempts to trace the evolution of Sufism in Pakistan and how its appeal has often been used by...

The new novel by S.K. Tremayne is another well-crafted and hugely enjoyable suspense thriller, which pulls you...

William Dalrymple’s curated book accompanying the first large exhibition of ‘Company Painting’ reveals the obscured...

Maham Javaid, whose short story ‘The Tallest Woman’ won the first Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women...

A well-respected historian presents brief historical stories told in lucid prose that counter generalisations and...

News of death, especially if unrelated to the dreaded coronavirus, seems all the more dismal...

A Pakistani novella that bills itself as interactive has problems with characterisations, but is an easy enough...

The eminence claimed for Lampedusa is based on referring to his novel as that by a Sicilian writing about Sicily.