Our favourite sports movies
We asked our sports team* to talk about their favourite sports movies. This is what they said.
Moneyball
There is something inherently uplifting about underdog...
Exploring questions relevant then and now
Book Review: Settling The Frontier: Land, Law and Society in the Peshawar Valley, 1500-1900
Robert Nicholas is a Professor of History at Stockton University in Galloway,...
Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain and Bol: A timeline
January - February 2017
19/01/17 (THURSDAY): Amir Liaquat allegedly maligns Jibran Nasir and missing bloggers on his show ‘Aisa nahi chalay ga’
20/01/17 (FRIDAY): Jibran...
Media Watch: A dangerous man
‘Kaash aap merey walid hotay!’
They’re always entertaining, but the sheer Amir-Liaqatness-per-centimetre-square in a recent episode of Amir Liaqat’s ramzan show on Bol was dangerously...
Italy’s president summons PM-designate, but doubts remain on key minister
MILAN: Italy's president summoned Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte to his office on Sunday in a move that could break a long-running political deadlock and...
Unity, faith, discipline and inclusion
“The reason disability is held responsible is that label – the word ‘disability’ – is a negative term. One that ought, ideally, be replaced....
Sehri in the City
Khan Shehram Eusufzye takes a stroll in the walled city to experience first-hand, the old quarters’ livelier than usual nights during Ramzan
The tape-covered tennis...
Media Watch: Howzzat in the age of the internet
A charming tale, covered gleefully by the media, revealing the ever-integrating world of today.
The setting: a street-cricket “tape ball” match somewhere in Sindh. The...
Media Watch: The Slap
“This is not the temperament of the show,” host Muneeb Farooq kept saying, while trying to pacify his two warring guests on his program...
Enter the Short story
Book review: “Storyteller’s Tales - a collection of short stories and musings.”
"This is not to say that english short story compilations are not...
Commodification of identity politics
Do we need Kamala Khan? To some, the answer is a no-brainier: a super strong superhero who also happens to be female and a...
Lurid tale of bribery and murder looms anew for Malaysia’s Najib
KUALA LUMPUR: Ousted Malaysian premier Najib Razak is already in hot water over allegations he looted state funds, but his legal woes could worsen...
Media Watch: Just joking
WajBro, the man’s man, the ladies’ man, the man of action, the man who knows his firearms, the man who can survive, nay, thrive...
Media Watch: He said what?
Cyril Almeida is in the centre of the storm for the second time. This time, as opposed to Dawn Leaks, there is lesser discussion...
A ramble through history
Book review: Of Pearls and Pecks of Straw - Recollections, Essays, After-thoughts
“And even though the more practiced, rigid historians may frown upon the uncertainty...
Reconsidering religion’s role
“Are secular politics, aims and sensibilities impossible, undesirable and impracticable for Muslims and Islamic states?” is the foundational question of Faith and Feminism in...
“WhatsApp Uncles”
A lie, they say, would have traveled halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots. We are indeed in...
