Newsmakers 2018: Meesha Shafi – Pakistan’s #MeToo leader
The Me Too movement didn’t hit Pakistan until April last year. The global movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault took down giants including...
Newsmakers 2018: Usman Buzdar – The Quiet one
He has been in the news this year, that’s for sure, but not for much of it. Because before he ascended to one of...
Newsmakers 2018: Justice Saqib Nisar – Blitzkrieg justice
Let’s cut to the chase with this one. We’ve never seen a Chief Justice like this. But as judges tend to do, he might...
Newsmakers 2018: The Sharifs – The embattled ones
It has been one, long, year for the Sharif family. Let’s take stock. In February, Nawaz Sharif had to step down from his position...
Newsmakers 2018: Jehangir Tareen – Hard man to shake off
For a man that was disqualified in the December of 2017 from his seat in parliament for not meeting the standards of sadaqat and...
Newsmakers 2018: Imran Khan – Not the fairy tale you’d imagine
Going into 2018, Imran Khan was the party chief of the country’s third largest parliamentary force with a shaky shot at the upcoming general...
Media Watch: Collapse?
This is the worst times in terms of press censorship in the country’s recent history.
Any discussion on the media has to be prefaced with...
Media Watch: The boy who cried 75 percent
He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, the state minister for the interior. But perhaps a tool nonetheless.
In the federal governments of most...
Media Watch: ‘Happy to be ashamed…’
Not a bad performance, over all
He wasn’t as bad at the BBC’s Hard Talk as his boss, the current prime minister, on the...
Media Watch: Not Not The Dependent
Satire in the age of the CJP
The reader might not have seen it yet. Because at the time of writing this, it had...
Aleph Review steps up its game
Publishing is always the greatest obstacle that faces any writer. The where, why, when, how, who of what is going to happen with a...
Media Watch: The chosen few
The idea behind having a more intimate presser with the prime minister is to give more time to each questioner. That, obviously, means fewer...
Obituary: Bush 41
They say the first year after the death of a spouse is crucial for the surviving partner. It is often the case with couples...
This conspiracy goes all the way to the bottom
‘We were busy’, read the ad of minimalist design on the front pages of the English and vernacular press. Turn the page, it said...
Media Watch: Appearances
Justice, goes the adage, should not only be done, but also seen to be done.
The British, who were quite particular about appearances, went above...
Media Watch: Vawda’s fancy dress show
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Suhai Aziz Talpur, the police officer who actually led the operation against the terrorists who had attacked the Chinese...
Faiz beyond ideology
This year’s season of Coke Studio has been a lot of things. There have been highs and lows, controversies and outrages, and all the...
