Alefia T. Hussain

Jun 24, 2025

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

Haroon Sethi

Jun 23, 2025

For too long Pakistan’s economic policymakers have blamed taxpayers for not shouldering the country’s fiscal burdens. But this deflects from the state’s culture of profligacy, which is at the root of the country's debt crisis.

Bilal Tanweer

Jun 20, 2025

Kafka's In the Penal Colony provides an insight into the psychology of power at play in the violence that has been inflicted on the Palestinians. What does it mean for writers to refuse to be "tourists" to this spectacle of suffering?

Aamir Ali Shah

Jun 05, 2025

Under colonial influence, the visual grammar of our past—soft silhouettes, draped fabrics, floral motifs, jewelry worn by men with ease—was stripped away. What remains is a masculine rigidity suspicious of any sartorial playfulness

Haroon Sethi

Jun 05, 2025

Pakistan's myopic focus on raising tax-to-GDP ratios rests on flawed assumptions and distracts from real fiscal reforms.

Alaina Asim

May 31, 2025

While most citizens of Karachi do not have access to cultural spaces, the well-heeled enjoy the vast expanses of country clubs, spaces reminiscent of the colonial era that function as a soft mechanism of exclusions, making it clear who is deemed to deserve leisure and comfort in the city.

Haroon Sethi

May 24, 2025

The country benefits far more from decent facilities everywhere, than world-class facilities in small pockets. Infrastructure development should take into consideration the needs of everyone, not just a segment of the population.

Zainab K. Durrani

Apr 29, 2025

From the ban on X (formerly known as Twitter) to the arrests of activists over speech, PECA has allowed the state to exercise the most arbitrary set of controls over Pakistani citizens’ use of the vast playground of the internet

Alefia T. Hussain

Apr 22, 2025

The government’s project to ostensibly revitalise the river and “develop” its surrounding areas has drawn sharp criticism from local residents and activists

Apr 22, 2025

In contemporary America, the system of financing election campaigns has become a vast, institutionalised behemoth that ensures elected officials are more accountable to their wealthiest donors than to their constituents. Therein lies the not-so-secret to bipartisan, unconditional support for Israel

Aamir Ali Shah

Mar 27, 2025

Given that a vast majority of women in Pakistan already wear long tunics, full sleeves, and dupattas, is modest fashion just a repackaging of what already exists?

Umair Javed

Mar 10, 2025

Cricket in Pakistan may be a deeply political project, but our attachment to the sport - the heady highs and the dismal lows - make it so much more

Rahmat Tunio

Mar 06, 2025

Pakistan is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the world, and agricultural and fishing communities of Sindh are paying the price with their lives uprooted and livelihoods decimated

Nijah S. Khan

Feb 24, 2025

This year’s edition of the Lahore Literary Festival may not have lived up to the hype and star power of LLFs past, but it still remains a crucial and thriving space for cultural dialogue

Haneya Zuberi

Feb 10, 2025

Any attempt at adapting a literary giant’s work for the screen - especially one as stylistically and visually experimental as Marquez - is going to be a lofty mission

Sana Tahir

Feb 04, 2025

Pakistani brides increasingly opt for the luxe aesthetic without the price tag, but not without judgment

Mariya Karimjee

Feb 04, 2025

Pakistan is experiencing an exodus of our young. How does losing almost an entire generation of students with advanced degrees and ambitious dreams change us and them?

Arslan Athar

Jan 21, 2025

The institution of marriage is an ideal in Pakistani society, the only acceptable and moral way to live, and when you choose to not enrol in the great program, a lot is assumed about you and a lot is said about you

Kulsum Ebrahim

Jan 21, 2025

Across five venues, KB24 stirred Karachiites out of complacency with art that implicated its audience in the climate crisis we face today

Ilma Qureshi

Jan 21, 2025

This Islamic cultural figure from 13th century India took liberties with language that have turned into the conventions of our present

Ibrahim Tanweer

Jan 21, 2025

Calls for a boycott for this year’s season bring us back to the question of the very legitimacy of Coke Studio as a platform for Pakistani music

Tehmina Khan

Jan 21, 2025

Dharti Dhar Dhar Dharke Gi: Artist As Witness, COMO Museum’s show curated by Salima Hashmi, is a searing homage to the artist’s testimony of a world rife with systemic violence

Nauman Faizi

Jan 21, 2025

A self-avowed devotee and admirer of Nusrat’s artistry remains largely unmoved by his posthumous album ‘Chain of Light’

Amel Ghani

Jan 21, 2025

Heera Mandi might have been famous for the singing and dancing women, but in the midst of all this, it was also home to the tradition of classical music - a tradition that is now dying

Mariam Tareen

Jan 21, 2025

Climate activist and expert Dawar Butt speaks about the underlying causes and potential solutions to the cataclysmic air pollution in Pakistan

Aamir Bukhari

Jan 21, 2025

The burgeoning perfume industry in Pakistan is largely a copycat factory, dominated by clones of internationally well-known designer fragrances. Will we see a turn towards innovation soon?

Haneya Zuberi

Jan 21, 2025

How did a humble spice, used in home kitchens and ayurvedic medicine mostly in South Asia for centuries, suddenly become a global super food?

Mariam Tareen

Jan 21, 2025

Watching the Israeli genocide in Gaza unfold as a parent has been heart wrenching, an uncanny double life, watching children torn apart on our phones while holding our sleeping babies

Rutaba Tanvir

Jan 21, 2025

Sara Javed Rathore

Jan 21, 2025

Amna Chaudhry

Jan 20, 2025

Beauty workers in large Pakistani urban centres face a distinctive set of struggles with little recourse

Aisha Khan

Jan 20, 2025

Decisive and effective policies to address the existential threat of rapidly deteriorating air quality is long overdue

Dur e Aziz Amna

Jan 20, 2025

A meditation on the duties and efficacy of artists in times of oppression and injustice

Aamir Ali Shah

Jan 10, 2025

While the pandemic thrust many Pakistani fashion brands into e-commerce, a deeper look reveals that the foundations of this industry—logistics, customer support, and post-sale service—remain alarmingly shaky

Sadia Khatri

Dec 04, 2024

Sadia Khatri reimagines the private and public in rural Sindh