Media Watch: The three gr8 l3drz versus the media
Alongside the rather unfair comparison with Donald Trump, Imran Khan is also compared to the guy next door.
But if we say these are unfair...
Amir Liaquat Hussain: A rollicking 2018 timeline
19/03/18: After a game of cat and mouse, Amir Liaquat Hussain finally joins the PTI. Hussain actually attends the presser arranged by Imran Ismail,...
The taxi driver in the age of Careem
Men like Sikander have been driving taxis for much of their adult life and know no other work. Some live in small servant quarters...
Take the Competition: Hold the Prize
“There is a yearning to see a new crop of artistes who can take music forward. For that crowd, PBOTB kills it.”
Coke Studio has...
Comedy weds drama
Of the three Eid-ul-Azha releases, which also included Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2 and Parwaz Hai Junoon, Load Wedding was perhaps the hardest to...
‘Revisionist’ shift in Subcontinental history
History never dies; it just goes into hibernation to come to fore with the discovery of new historical evidence or different perspective. The 24th...
Media Watch: WajBro and the ladies
Of course.
Of course our man Waj Bro is a ladies’ man. Of course he is.
What woman could possibly resist the charms of this Greek...
Media Watch: Kitna kar leti hai?
We’re a nation obsessed with mileage. Every conversation at a car showroom, or a used car dealership, or the awkward meeting resulting from some...
Follow the Diamond
Book review: Kohinoor: The story of the world’s most infamous diamond
The Koh-I-Noor. It has been a symbol of the British crown for over...
Original phir nahi ani
The releases lined up on Eid-ul-Azha were significantly better on paper as compared to what was on offer at Eid-ul-Fitr. However, given the string...
Media Watch: He said, he said
A phone call has been the subject of feverish debate on the mainstream media.
The call from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to newly-inaugurated...
Media Watch: Dawn of a scary era
“A lie can travel halfway across the world, while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
Though always true, the above statement (ironically enough,...
Our Forgotten Realities: What Manto and Quratulain Haider have to say about Naya Pakistan
Revisiting the sad, sombre tales by two masters of Urdu fiction in times brimming with hope and excitement
‘Everything popular is wrong.’ In our land,...
Fairy meadows: A tiny taste of heaven
At the end of a trail 3300 meters above sea level, nestled between the mountains and forests of Diamer in Gilgit Baltistan, lies a...
Media Watch: Imran Khan is no Trump
. . . but they’re not poles apart either
You would have seen it by now. Trevor Noah, the South African comedian who heads Comedy...
Media Watch: Damn the dams
There is something alluring about dams that is quite firmly affixed on our national imagination. I learnt at school that Tarbela was the largest...
Media Watch: Imran Khan’s “no security detail”
There is always a war of attrition between politicians and their security detail. The latter want too much, the former want as little as...
