Spotlight

Our essential reads for the week

Should Pakistan Hope Again?

In recent years Pakistan has seen a bleak period in the T20I cricket arena. However, does the series clean sweep against Bangladesh in May 2025 signal a shift in the tides? Can the team reignite spectators’ hope again?

Lessons from Heer

A childhood favorite Punjabi film offers unexpected insights into contemporary Punjabi society

Complicit in Femicide

Every time a particularly brutal murder of a woman makes headlines, the public reacts with shock, even though the roots of femicide thrive in our own homes

Iron Brothers

A new series tracing the origins and evolution of the unique Pak-China partnership, examining how geopolitics, economic collaboration and mutual security concerns have shaped this “Iron Brotherhood”.

The Many Lahores of Manan Ahmed Asif

‘What is and was Lahore? How has it changed in its thirteen disruptions?’ These are among the many questions that flaneur-historian Dr Manan Ahmed Asif explores in his book ‘Disrupted City’.

Shifting Gender Tides

Sana Yousaf’s brutal murder is not an isolated incident, but may be part of a larger pattern of rising masculine violence in reaction to the recent gains made by women towards greater equality in Pakistan



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Comment

Reflecting on the Zeitgeist

Overtourism and the Changing Face of Gilgit-Baltistan

Even as the local economy has come to rely on tourism, Gilgit-Baltistan faces grave ecological, cultural and social challenges as a result of the recent surge

By Alefia T Hussain

Jun 24, 2025

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Lessons from Heer

A childhood favorite Punjabi film offers unexpected insights into contemporary Punjabi society

By Mahnoor Khan

Jul 07, 2025

Overtourism and the Changing Face of Gilgit-Baltistan

Even as the local economy has come to rely on tourism, Gilgit-Baltistan faces grave ecological, cultural and social challenges as a result of the recent surge

By Alefia T Hussain

Jun 24, 2025

Lessons from Heer

A childhood favorite Punjabi film offers unexpected insights into contemporary Punjabi society

By Mahnoor Khan

Jul 07, 2025

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CHATHTEES BATTA DOU, NISBAT ROAD

In memory of Abdur Rehman, whom we lost last year, we would like to share a short story he wrote in Bilal Tanweer’s class at LUMS.

By Abdur Rehman Mazhar

Jun 30, 2025


Books

The Many Lahores of Manan Ahmed Asif

‘What is and was Lahore? How has it changed in its thirteen disruptions?’ These are among the many questions that flaneu...

The Sins of James

Satire aims to provoke, but does Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel go far enough?

Banu Mushtaq’s Muslim Women

𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘱, the first ever book translated from Kannada shortlisted by the International Booker Prize, is a collection o...

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud

In our increasingly media-saturated landscape, in thrall of an attention economy that strategizes attracting eyeballs an...

Dreaming Of A Different World

Nobel Prize Winner Han Kang’s oeuvre may be be celebrated due to her status as a novelist “for the times”, but what sepa...

Heart Tantrums by Aisha Sarwari

Sarwari lays it all bare in this clear-eyed memoir about the trials of her marriage, within which the lines between moth...


SPORTS

Should Pakistan Hope Again? SPORTS

Should Pakistan Hope Again?

In recent years Pakistan has seen a bleak period in the T20I cricket arena. However, does the series clean sweep against...

Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi

WORLD

In Helsinki, Minutes for Gaza

A reflection on the surreal experience of living in a largely indifferent Europe run by complicit governments as a genocide unfolds elsewhere

By Dua Abbas Rizvi

Feb 04, 2025

The Axe Forgets, but the Tree Remembers: From Gaza to the World

From the encampments of Columbia University to the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza, an unprecedented sense of solidarity unites the world even as Israel strengthens its own dark alliances

By Zarrar Khuhro

Jan 17, 2025

THE SIRDAH TWINS

Against the backdrop of Israel’s blockade and wars, Gaza’s birdwatching twins look skywards for inspiration

By Sama Faruqi

Jan 19, 2025


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