Exeunt Rashid Suhrawardy
He was an Oxford educated actor best known for his his time with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His mother was a Russian actress of...
Media Watch: Banned from the press clubs
You might have seen it. It has become a common practice at press conferences of government ministers and, in at least one case, that...
Media Watch: Journalists covering MBS
He’ll be driven from the airport to the PM House by the PM himself. He’s going to be met by only the apex sliver...
Media Watch: The constantly falling bar
Slavoj Zizek narrates an interesting joke from the former German Democratic Republic. A worker gets a job all the way in Siberia. He is...
Media Watch: Unlikely avenues of free media
It’s a double-whammy that the Pakistani news media is facing these days. There is the financial crunch, which was predicted by many since long....
Media Watch: A new nadir everyday
He was never Pakistani journalism’s best foot forward, but Arif Hameed Bhatti’s most recent virality is because he has hit a new low. The...
Media Watch: No subtlety in propaganda
From an economics point of view, India has had only two prime ministers, really. Jawaharlal Nehru and Narasimha Rao. From an exclusively political point...
Book review: Encounters
Short stories are a labour of love. While urdu literature and consequently publication may have thrived on sometimes soul shaking, sometimes scandalous, and sometimes...
Media Watch: Defining ‘indecency’
Pemra‘ s directive to private television channels not to air “indecent content” was bound to be taken apart.
By the conservatives, because this was a...
Media Watch: Eat the rich
The Press Information Department’’s twitter handle ( @pid_gov ) is, in effect, the official twitter account of the Government of Pakistan.
One wonders why, then,...
Media Watch: At least he didn’t take out his gun
He’s on a roll, Faisal Vawda is. His spectacular fancy dress show at the Chinese consulate in Karachi after the terrorist attack there was...
Media Watch: ‘We were never at war with Eurasia’
In George Orwell’s chilling 1984, the totalitarian state of Oceania is in a state of perpetual war with either one of the two other,...
Newsmakers 2018: Asghar Khan – Influential even in death
Pakistan’s first native Air Force Commander in Chief, Air Marshal Asghar Khan’s relevance did not wane in his lifetime, so how could it have...
Newsmakers 2018: Junoon – Blast from the past
There wasn’t any new music. In fact, the closest thing to ‘new music’ that ‘junoon’ has produced in recent times were Salman Ahmed’s ravenous...
Newsmakers 2018: The two Mrs Khans
Reham Khan and Bushra Maneka. The former and current Mrs Khan. The almost first lady and the first lady. One, a modern Pakistani woman,...
Newsmakers 2018: Khadim Hussain Rizvi – Ghauris incoming
He seems to stir around winter time. In 2017, it was 20 days in November when Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s men held the capital hostage...
Newsmakers 2018: Manzoor Pashteen
Manzoor Pashteen has been all over the place in 2018, but he hasn’t quite been in the news. When he led a 22 person...
