Newspaper - Eos - May 8, 2026

THE MIDWIFERY CRISIS IN PAKISTAN

Behind Pakistan’s high maternal and infant mortality rates lies a fractured system, in which trained midwives are

Updated 06 May, 2026 05:55pm

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TRIBUTE: THE MAN WHO TAUGHT OTHERS TO SEE

Photojournalist Raghu Rai, who has died aged 83, did not just photograph India. He helped a generation of readers, editors

Published 03 May, 2026 08:15am

FOOTBALL: FIELDS OF PLAY

Four turf specialists from the US designed the playing fields for soccer’s biggest World Cup ever beginning in June

Published 03 May, 2026 08:18am

ENVIRONMENT: THE CARBON COST OF CONFLICT

From Kuwait’s burning oil fields in 1991 to Tehran’s blackened skies in 2026, war has always poisoned the planet. But as global

Published 03 May, 2026 08:24am

EXHIBITION: WITNESS TO WAR

Through deceptively simple forms, Quddus Mirza’s latest work bridges the inner emotional world and the global theatre of violence

Published 03 May, 2026 08:33am

EXHIBITION: FELT HISTORIES

An exhibition centred on the craft of wool-felting weaves together narratives of memory, material, tradition and loss

Published 03 May, 2026 08:37am

SMOKERS’ CORNER: LOSING THE PLOT

Western legacy media's inability to recalibrate reveals deeper institutional inertia that risks rendering it irrelevant.

Updated 03 May, 2026 10:34am

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: A QUESTION OF NOSE

The failure to achieve a resolution in the US-Iran talks being mediated by Pakistan has an upside — at least Islamabad has opened

Published 03 May, 2026 08:42am

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘I Wasn’t Consulted On My Marriage’

Published 03 May, 2026 08:45am

GARDENING: WHITE AS A LEAF

The aglaonema Super White is rare, imported and unlike almost any other houseplant in its colouring. It also happens to be...

Published 03 May, 2026 08:47am

THE WAR AGAINST IRAN AND PAKISTAN’S MOMENT

As Washington and Tehran oscillated between escalation and diplomacy after the war imposed by the US and Israel on Iran, Pakistan

Published 26 Apr, 2026 08:07am

IN MEMORIAM: A MAN NO NICHE COULD HOLD

Raza Kazim, who passed away at the age of 96 on April 16 in Lahore, was a lawyer, philosopher, musician, educator and photographer

Published 26 Apr, 2026 08:59am

WORLD: WHY DID VIKTOR ORBÁN LOSE?

A populist autocrat, Orbán ruled Hungary for a 16-year stretch as its longest-serving prime minister. He was defeated in a...

Updated 28 Apr, 2026 06:10pm

HOCKEY: THE BOYS FROM BANNU

The Bacha Khan Hockey Club of Bannu recently became the first national club champion from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. But Bannu’s...

Published 26 Apr, 2026 09:13am

ESSAY: GAMENESS THEORY

We breed it into birds, dogs and horses. We honour it in soldiers, mountaineers and mothers. This trait has a name...

Published 26 Apr, 2026 09:25am

EXHIBITION: THE TIMELESS ARAB VOICE

Dia al-Azzawi’s works continue to prove why he is regarded as a pioneer of modern Arab art and why his works continue to resonate

Published 26 Apr, 2026 09:34am

ARTSPEAK: KEEPING THE CANDLE LIT

Even in times of despair, the flame of hope is kept alive by those who have the conviction to take a stand

Published 26 Apr, 2026 09:45am

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE RISE OF DEFENSIVE REALISM

As evidenced by Pakistan’s strategic recalibration, defensive realism is paying more dividends.

Updated 26 Apr, 2026 10:02am

EPICURIOUS: A SAUDI SPREAD

A young trainee chef prepares an Arab feast…

Published 26 Apr, 2026 09:51am

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘I Have Crippling Social Anxiety’

Published 26 Apr, 2026 10:30am

GARDENING: ‘CAN I GROW THE ASHOKA TREE IN ISLAMABAD?’

All your gardening queries answered here

Published 26 Apr, 2026 10:40am

HOW PAKISTAN’S HIGHER EDUCATION WENT OFF TRACK

A bold national experiment once promised to transform Pakistan into a ‘knowledge economy.’ But, a little over two decades later...

Published 19 Apr, 2026 09:05am

POLICY: THE CASE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Pakistan frames its transport crisis as an affordability problem. It is actually an institutional one — and every fuel shock makes

Published 19 Apr, 2026 09:31am

FOOTBALL: FOOTBALL’S WASTED TIME

The ‘beautiful game’ is being spoiled by time-wasting — can anything be done about it ahead of the World Cup?

Published 19 Apr, 2026 09:39am

ENVIRONMENT: SWALLOWED BY THE SEA

Once a thriving harbour town, Sukhi Bandar now lies beneath the Arabian Sea. Its disappearance tells a larger story — of a delta

Published 19 Apr, 2026 09:45am

INTERVIEW: PAKISTAN IN VENICE

As Pakistan gets ready to participate in the Venice Biennale for only the second time, Eos speaks with Faiza Butt, the artist...

Updated 19 Apr, 2026 10:29am

SMOKERS’ CORNER: GEOPOLITICS OF THE PULPIT

As countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia move away from past Islamist frameworks, a new, more pragmatic regional identity is emerging.

Updated 19 Apr, 2026 09:54am

CLIFTONIA: FOREST TALES

A very secret fable about a very secret cave, very secret guests and the machinery behind world-changing events…

Published 19 Apr, 2026 10:15am

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘Everyone Doubts Me After My CSS Exam Failure’

Published 19 Apr, 2026 10:18am

GARDENING: BUTTON SHEDDING

From water stress to weak pollination, a number of factors can cause coconut trees to drop underdeveloped nuts — here’s what...

Updated 26 Apr, 2026 10:34am

FINDING A FUEL WE CAN AFFORD

The numbers tell us that a cheaper, cleaner future is within reach, if the state chooses to act before the next hit.

Updated 16 Apr, 2026 01:13pm

ESSAY: THE WHITE SAVIOUR

The trope is not the result of a personality flaw in individual storytellers. It is a narrative technique. And from Robinson Cruso

Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am

HISTORY: WHEN PERSIA FREED THE JEWS

When Cyrus the Great defeated Babylon, he handed the exiled Jews something they had not had in decades…

Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am

MOTORSPORTS: LEARNING TO DRIFT

Dina Patel grew up watching her parents race across Pakistan’s desert terrain. Now 22, she has become the country’s first female

Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am

IN MEMORIAM: LETTING HISTORY JUDGE

Roy Medvedev, who died in February this year, lived through nearly the entire Soviet century — and spent most of it insisting

Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am