The outrage over the upcoming Enhanced Games — where athletes can take performance enhancing drugs — suggests it is more about
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
Munawar Ali Syed’s latest body of work reflects on our fraught relationship with nature and the uncertain destiny of modern cities
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
When demolition crews recently cleared the area around Lahore’s Bhati Gate, one small domed shrine survived — not because anyone
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
A scholar, a communist and an anti-colonial activist, Dr K.M. Ashraf spent his life arguing that India’s Muslims and Hindus shared a future.
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
Zahra Mansoor’s latest exhibition grapples with the nature of intimacy and unresolved inter-human relationships in a quirky manner
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
From Pakistan in 1977 to Bangladesh in 2026, when loosely organised reformists align with disciplined Islamist forces, the ‘revolution’ rarely ends as they imagine.
Updated 22 Feb, 2026 09:56am
In the Republic of Cliftonia, peace is permanent, statistics are miraculous and anything missing from official records simply
Updated 22 Feb, 2026 01:58pm
‘My Husband and Parents Don’t Get Along’
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
All your gardening queries answered here
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:46am
Once a pristine freshwater lake, home to the thriving Mohanna fishing community and their houseboats, Manchhar Lake is now polluted and toxic due to decades of state neglect.
Updated 16 Feb, 2026 01:35pm
From ignored FBI reports in 1996 to carelessly exposed victim identities in 2025, the Epstein scandal is a masterclass in how institutions fail survivors.
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
The issue was always about more than a single match. It was about respect, equity and the balance of power in international cricket.
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
Every year, 8,000 Pakistani children are diagnosed with cancer. Less than half receive proper treatment.
Updated 18 Feb, 2026 03:41pm
From mantises matching UV patterns they cannot see to vines copying plastic leaves, nature’s most precise disguises challenge simple evolutionary explanations.
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
Shireen Kamran’s abstract art forms are meditative in nature and deeply introspective
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
Farcical online humour has become an escapist tool in an age of nuclear threats, political circuses and collective bewilderment
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
Failed ideologies often enter a “zombie state”, becoming a set of hollow rituals and rhetoric, cut off from reality. But persistent political anxieties express themselves in this void with monsters of their times.
Updated 15 Feb, 2026 10:08am
This very French dessert is probably Arabic in origin and can be challenging to make but worth it
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
‘My Family Does Not Acknowledge My Achievements’
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
Nutritious, resilient and surprisingly easy to cultivate, Swiss chard can thrive in South Asian climates — if grown with the right
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:07am
US allies are now being treated like others were always treated in the Global SSouth.
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
As the country prepares for its first election since the 2024 uprising, voters disillusioned with corruption are turning to an unexpected alternative.
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
Kainat Khalil recently won a half-marathon but was not awarded a medal. She also won a bronze in a 10,000m event but was
Updated 08 Feb, 2026 08:57am
Pakistan’s major cities are expanding rapidly — and dying slowly.
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
The newly opened Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum in Doha is more than just a tribute to the singular artistry that M.F. Husain
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
From Afghan militancy in the 1980s and 1990s to the Middle East’s sectarian militias and from Africa to Balochistan, modern history is filled with states that created violent proxies, only for them to become existential threats to themselves.
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
Can you wear the same pair of socks more than once?
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
‘My Parents Want Me To Give Up On My Dreams’
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
Swiss chard’s vibrant stems — in red, yellow and white — make it one of the most visually striking vegetables you can grow
Published 08 Feb, 2026 07:39am
It is estimated that Sindh has lost nearly 80pc of its forest cover since Pakistan came into being, much of it in the last 30 years.
Updated 03 Feb, 2026 11:48am
In a corner of Greater Iqbal Park lies the ghost of Guddi Ground, where kite-flying wasn’t a hobby — it was a battlefield. As
Published 01 Feb, 2026 07:00am
Pakistan is not among the fancied sides for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup starting on February 7.
Updated 25 Feb, 2026 06:59am
This year marks the centenary of Syed Zahoor Shah Hashmi, who spent decades building the intellectual foundations of the Balochi
Published 01 Feb, 2026 07:00am
Sarah Ahmad’s work engages with the transformation of landscapes, materials, memory and the self
Published 01 Feb, 2026 07:00am
I grew up with Urdu poetry, learning to recite verses from ghazals as soon as I could talk. Words held only visual meanings for me
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:45am
A former journalist’s book on Princess Diana’s infamous 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir expects readers to consider...
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:45am
An elegantly structured novel, told through through the eyes of a young lad, is the first part of four interconnected novels...
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:45am
The 14th Lahore Literary Festival put its focus on history and in diversifying away from English but was impacted by scheduling
Published 22 Feb, 2026 06:45am
A book by a former chief economist at the State Bank of Pakistan critiques international aid and its deleterious impact on...
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:41am
The 17th Karachi Literature Festival was fuelled by an unswerving, if wildly optimistic, belief in the transformative power of the
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:38am
Ayesha Muzaffar’s latest offering strings together three novellas that will undoubtedly delight fans of the horror genre
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:33am
There are many ways to go about writing one’s first novel, and here I would like to share how I went about writing...
Published 15 Feb, 2026 07:21am
A recent book argues Pakistan can leverage its strategic location and become an engine of trade and global growth, but seems...
Published 08 Feb, 2026 09:41am
Set in Swat during the rise of militant violence in the region in the mid-2000s, a debut novel wrestles with themes of patriarchy
Published 08 Feb, 2026 09:36am
From Kurram Valley to the World Bank’s corridors, a Pakistani internationalist retraces a global journey marked by discipline,...
Published 08 Feb, 2026 09:32am
In the recently published Urdu book of stories titled Tamasha-i-Ahl-i-Karam [The Circus of the Benevolent] by Dr...
Published 08 Feb, 2026 08:43am
Daniyal Mueenuddin’s much-anticipated first novel does not retreat from the terrain that made his reputation; it expands it.
Published 01 Feb, 2026 08:47am
Actor Michael J. Fox recounts how he managed playing Family Ties’ Alex P. Keaton by day and Back to the Future’s Marty McFly by...
Published 01 Feb, 2026 08:42am
A restrained first novel invites the reader to reflect on history, engage with an often-overlooked city, and witness a woman’s...
Published 01 Feb, 2026 08:38am
This year marks the centenary of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’, which still shapes how we read sickness
Published 01 Feb, 2026 08:31am
An Urdu book free of complex theoretical jargon and clearly intended for students combines conceptual discussions about the idea
Published 25 Jan, 2026 09:39am
A follow-up to one man’s recounting of whimsical stories from his life retains the original’s wit and nostalgic narration of an...
Published 25 Jan, 2026 09:33am
A slim collection comprising a novella and a number of short stories portray a search for beauty in a disintegrating world
Published 25 Jan, 2026 09:29am
Interviewing him in London many years ago, I asked Daniyal Mueenuddin what he was working on after his acclaimed...
Published 25 Jan, 2026 09:10am
