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PAKISTAN AND INDIA: WHERE TO FROM HERE?

Pakistan did not operationalise its quid pro quo plus response this time; it must not just retaliate, it should preempt.

Ejaz Haider Updated 01 Jun, 2025 09:07pm

ESSAY: THE UNMAKING OF MEN

Netflix’s critically acclaimed series Adolescence shows how male rage can pass from fathers to sons, in a cycle where violence

Shaharbano Alvi Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am

CRICKET: BLAZE OF GLORY

PSL 10 wasn’t just a cricket tournament — it was a story of redemption, surprises, heartbreaks and unforgettable highs

Muhammad Abu Bakar Farooq Updated 01 Jun, 2025 10:32am

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TCL sets a new benchmark with QD Mini LED TVs in Pakistan

TCL is a global leader in consumer electronics, renowned for delivering innovative, high-quality televisions at competitive prices.

ADVERTISEMENT Published 03 Jun, 2025 02:07pm

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Insignia’s Eid Collection: ‘For the days that shine’

Insignia’s Eid collection blends contemporary elegance with traditional charm, offering stylish footwear, bags and fragrances for women, men and children.

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Letting nature lead: Alpha Prime opens its doors

The Clifton campus brings nature into every corner — surrounded by plants, trees and natural light, not concrete and clutter.

ADVERTISEMENT Published 31 May, 2025 09:12pm

CULTURE: THE FORGOTTEN HEART

Before Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man, there was Mumtaz Shahnawaz’s The Heart Divided — Pakistan’s first English-language Partition

Salman Tahir Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am

EXHIBITION: ART AS ECOLOGICAL PRACTICE

Through an immersive art practice that interweaves sensory experience and environmental knowledge, Sara Aslam maps a path towards

Nusrat Khawaja Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am

EXHIBITION: A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

The Ravi River becomes a vessel for memory, migration and melancholy at a deeply introspective exhibition in Lahore

Nadeem Alam Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am

SMOKERS’ CORNER: NATIONS AT CROSSROADS

If history is cyclical, as posited by some generational theorists, is Pakistan about to enter a new era of optimism and prosperity?

Nadeem F. Paracha Updated 01 Jun, 2025 10:12am

DIARY OF A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: DOUBLED STANDARDS

Hypocritical Americans, mental Indians and salty Saudis grate on Butterfly’s nerve…

Moni Mohsin Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘Can I Disobey My Family to Protect My Future?’

From InpaperMagazine Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am

GARDENING: KAKRI ON THE CLIMB

The Armenian cucumber produces a voluminous yield and can easily be grown vertically when the plant is cramped for space

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:39am

THE NIGHT-BITTEN DAWN OF THE FATA MERGER

The 2018 merger was meant to provide equal rights to their citizens. Many of those promises remain unfulfilled 7 years on, with discontent rising.

Zia Ur Rehman Updated 25 May, 2025 02:07pm

NEIGHBOURS: ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’ AND ITS OPTICS

The dissonance between the cultural symbolism entrenched in the name of this operation and the more calculated nationalist narr

Sarayu Pani Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am

MIGRATION: PERILS OF THE PROMISED LAND

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis sell everything for a shot at Gulf prosperity, only to find themselves trapped in

Munib Ali Daudpoto Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am

SPORTS: THE GAMES POPES LOVE

From pulpit to pitch: Pope Francis used sport to get his message to a wider world — that could continue with baseball-loving Leo

Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am

HEALTH: FEATHERS AND FATAL LUNGS

Across Pakistan, feeding pigeons is triggering a rare lung disease — one that leaves permanent damage — with doctors worried

Ahmad Bashir Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am

EXHIBITION: THE BODY AS SPACE

Two contemporary artists explore the female body as both space and subject, thus charting a powerful course of reclamation and

Nimra Khan Published 25 May, 2025 05:03am

COLUMN: EVERY CAUSE IS OURS

I have long delved into the relationship between art and power. It brings up new questions after every new incident,...

Harris Khalique Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am

FICTION: THE SOUL OF PAKISTAN

A powerful Urdu novel invites readers to question not only Pakistan’s political journey but also deeper spiritual and moral...

Muhammad Suhayb Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am

FICTION: A MAD GOTHIC ROMP

Despite a few historical flaws, Sana Pirzada’s latest novel, set before the turn of the 20th century, is a roller-coaster ride of

Rehana Alam Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am

NON-FICTION: CAN THE UNIVERSITY SURVIVE?

A former faculty member and administrator of prestigious universities pens a book that is part memoir, part history and part...

Faisal Bari Published 01 Jun, 2025 06:51am

NON-FICTION: Understanding the West’s racism

Pankaj Mishra’s latest book is a personal coming to terms with his pro-Zionist upbringing as well as the roots of the Western

Sahar Shehryar Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am

FICTION: What if you swapped lives?

A best-selling debut Young Adult novel from Korea weaves a fantasy that is grounded in reality, and which ultimately gently

Sara Danial Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am

NON-FICTION

A book by an accomplished trekker about his 10-day journey to the mountainous border of Pakistan with China is more erudite

Salman Rashid Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am

COLUMN: Nicky, Ling and the Chinese connection

November, 2023. On the top floor of the Shard, a very modern building near the Thames, there’s a prize-giving for...

Aamer Hussein Published 25 May, 2025 05:25am

SPOTLIGHT: IN THE NAME OF LOVE

The Humayun Saeed-Mahira Khan starrer Love Guru is the kind of film, say its filmmakers, that has not been produced in Pakistan...

Mohammad Kamran Jawaid Updated 03 Jun, 2025 02:29pm

CINEMASCOPE: A STITCH IN TIME

Can Disney’s latest live-action animation Lilo & Stitch remake reignite interest in the genre?

Laura O’Flanagan Published 01 Jun, 2025 08:13am

THE GRAPEVINE

Pop star Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel have two sons: Silas (10) and Phineas (4). Recently, an interviewer asked the

PYT Published 01 Jun, 2025 08:06am

CINEMASCOPE: CRUISE’S FINAL BOW?

The human angle works quite well in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning as it gives a unique perspective on the moving...

Mohammad Kamran Jawaid Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:57am

WIDE ANGLE: SEEING RED

A decade after the release of The Martian and a decade out from the world it envisions, a planetary scientist checks in on...

Ari Koppel Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:52am

THE TUBE

Fantasy revenge serials are all the rage at Geo TV and ARY, and Danish Taimoor seems to be cashing in on the “intense alpha male”

Sadaf Haider Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:52am

SPOTLIGHT: PAKISTAN’S CINEMATIC ERASURE

The slow erasure of Pakistan’s cinematic memory is not merely a cultural oversight. It is a refusal to come to terms with who...

Taha Tunio Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:52am

STYLE: DRAMA AND THE FESTIVAL

At Cannes, decency and new dress codes clash with fashion’s red carpet revolution, say some. But is it really so?

Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén Published 01 Jun, 2025 07:52am

In the spirit of crypto experimentation

While the SBP sandbox guidelines are a welcome move for untested financial service models, their success will likely be underpinned by variables that go beyond regulation.

Mutaher Khan Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

Fending for the regular folk

Real prosperity can only emerge when the state acts as a facilitator, not a hurdle, allowing markets and merit to drive the nation forward.

Shahzad Saleem Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

Unfairly burdening compliant consumers

The unintended consequence of KE’s recovery loss allowance will be a class of perpetual defaults.

Ammar H Khan Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

Finance: Resolving to reform

Without simultaneous progress on equity and institutional reform, Pakistan’s fiscal sustainability — and its broader economic

Mohiuddin Aazim Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

Optimism and economic opportunity

The overall positive business sentiment must be harnessed through a disciplined approach to ensure lasting national growth.

Yousaf Hussain Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

Agriculture: The rural labour market crisis

With rising mechanisation in agriculture and a slow-growing industrial sector, the wave of rural workers’ displacement may rise

Khalid Saeed Wattoo | Dr Waqar Ahmad Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

KSE 100-share index fluctuations

Source: PSX Chart by Mohammad Zeeshan Ali Khan

From the Newspaper Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

Rupee report: Weekly rupee-dollar parity

Source: FOREX Chart by ZA

From the Newspaper Published 02 Jun, 2025 08:16am

Beat the heat from the inside out

With summer comes the brightness, so intense that your eyes start to itch, then ache. The lovely golden sun soon...

Marvi Soomro Published 31 May, 2025 07:36am

Mailbox

With so many distractions and pressures around us, it can be really hard to figure out who you

From InpaperMagazine Published 31 May, 2025 07:36am

The exams are over. Now what?

For most students, the exams are over, and for others, the long marathon is finally nearing its end. It’s that ...

Shahmeer Asif Published 24 May, 2025 05:43am

Mailbox

I’m a distressed A Level student who, like thousands across Pakistan, is exhausted, unheard and

From InpaperMagazine Published 24 May, 2025 05:43am

Story time: My first speech

Research says that public speaking is a fear that most people have and a few years ago I was one such person. It was...

Amna Qureshi Published 31 May, 2025 07:36am

Cricket: PSL X: A tournament to remember

The tenth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) ended with a stylish victory by the Lahore Qalandars, with...

Muhammad Suhayb Published 31 May, 2025 07:36am

Movie review: Snow White

Most people have seen the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was the first full-length...

Muhammad Suhayb Published 31 May, 2025 07:36am

Website review: Guess the picture

Sometimes, a website doesn’t need to do much to leave a mark. It just needs to provide some fun and light...

Asif Ali Published 31 May, 2025 07:36am