Hijab style trends: From the Afghan burqa to the cover of a fashion magazine
July 12 is National Hijab Day in Iran, a celebration that has been met by defiant protests by women driving headscarf less in their cars. At the same...
Can the SC disqualify the PM (and Maryam Nawaz) without referring the matter to trial court?
Saad Rasool | What Dr. Shahid Masood calls ‘Operation Dhabardoos’, seems to be well under way. Braving through a barrage of criticism and character assassination, the...
PEMRA and the fate of Indian shows
News Analysis | The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has decided to approach the Supreme Court against an interim order of the Sindh High...
Gory Human rights abuses in Iran
News Analysis | According to Iran's Human Rights Monitor, 117 prisoners are going to be hanged within a month in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of...
Politics everywhere: Pakistan’s debating team
News Analysis | Just two weeks away from the 2017 edition of The World Schools Debating Championship (WSDC), the Debating Circuit of Pakistan has made...
Identity Crisis: Who is Pakistani and who isn’t?
Nauman Sadiq | #PakistanTurns70 There are two contrasting styles of debating an issue: those who prefer normative arguments, and those who choose a descriptive line of...
An open letter to a lackey !
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | The cat was out of JIT's bag earlier this week. The findings flabbergasted one and all, for many believed that...
Encounter of justice or fair play? —Pakistan’s Judicial Order goes on trial.
Jan Achakzai | As the Supreme Court resumes the hearing of the Panama Case after the receipt of the JIT report on Monday, July 17th,...
Turkey marks first anniversary of the failed military coup
A year ago, on the same date, Turkey witnessed a disastrous military coup. Some junior military leadership, over their disagreements with the incumbent president and...
US tightens restrictions on Pakistan
On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed, with a 344 to 81 vote majority, a historic $696 billion defense policy bill that would...
The first death anniversary of Qandeel
News Analysis | This weekend will be the first death anniversary of a rebel that was Qandeel Baloch. A year after her tragic demise, the...
Envy is a chronic poison that secretly kills our motivation every day
Do you ever fall into the wormhole that is Instagram-stalking? You know what I’m talking about: you see a photo (perhaps someone you know,...