Book review: The end of a journey
Book review: Journey into Europe, Islam, immigration and identity: Akbar Ahmad , third edition,OUP, 2019,Pp 497, Rs 1295)
This is the fourth book of a...
Media Watch: First, they came for someone else
Anchor Farieha Idrees isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Still, one would have thought she would have known better than to tweet out...
Behind the Mist
The unimaginable cruelty of Human Trafficking
“I am doing a service to the people. I don’t force anyone to go abroad. People come to beg...
Media Watch: ‘Hail to the Chief’
There is talk, as their often is, of bringing in a presidential system in the country. Now, I do believe that in most cases,...
Media Watch: NY Times Leaks?
The nation and its news media (broadcast as well as the supposedly more cerebral print) have infamously short memories. A shockwave of sorts had...
Media Watch: Another ticking time-bomb
Much humour going around about the PTI’s choices for members of cabinet. They’ve selected a finance minister who doesn’t understand the economy, and an...
Media Watch: One-dimensional expectations from victims
Not a day goes by when one doesn’t read of crimes against women in the country, but it is only the more bizarre ones...
Media Watch: And then, they came of the display photos…
It was a bad year, 2018 was, as far as freedom of speech in the news media was concerned. A pivot that continues well...
Media Watch: To play the keera’s advocate
It’s gone viral, the Kingtox insect repellent advertisement has.
The ad ticks all the boxes. It’s funny. It’s relevant to the product at hand. It...
Finger on the trigger – Make way for Pandemonium
Lahore based poet Afshan Shafi, after her recent success with the launch of her ‘Quiet Women’ - a poetic collaboration with female visual and...
Media Watch: On public suicides
It’s a dreadfully sad case. Retired Brigadier Asad Munir, a former ISI veteran, a former CDA officer and, ironically, a former NAB Deputy Director...
The question of the South Asian ‘matriarchate’
- Book review - Widows and Daughters: Gender, Kinship and Power in South Asia by Anna Suvorova
On Friday simultaneous ‘Aurat Marches’ took place in...
Media Watch: No questions, not even obvious ones
We were never at war with Eurasia. We were always at war with Eurasia.
Such were the uncontested narratives of the Ministry of Truth in...
Media Watch: Screeching versus dead
There has been an air of despondency among the liberal democrats of Pakistan during the ongoing tension with India. No, it is not because...
In conversation with Kate Hollett
Berlin –Artist, professor and award-winning creative director, the super talented Kate Hollett sat down in Berlin for an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today.
An artist...
Media Watch: Cobragate
It was quite a sting operation. New Indian news outfit Cobrapost has caused quite a tumult in the Indian entertainment industry by covertly recording...
Maldives arrests former president Yameen for money laundering
MALÉ: Maldivian authorities Monday ordered the arrest of former strongman president Abdulla Yameen over money laundering charges, officials said.
The arrest came after a court began...
