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Saturday December 21, 2024
Ghazi Salahuddin
Ghazi Salahuddin

The writer is a staff member.

  • December 15, 2024

    Energising the young

    Typically, young people are conspicuous by their absence in serious literary and cultural deliberations

  • December 08, 2024

    Pakistan’s 'brain rot'

    "Brain rot" is slang term for supposed mental damage done by over-consumption of trivial online content

  • December 01, 2024

    PTI’s reality check

    Such fall and such rise within 24 hours would constitute unimaginable dramatic shift in the affairs of country

  • November 24, 2024

    Clash of ignorant armies

    One can imagine how confusion will affect psyche of not just observers but also of participants of various ongoing conflicts in country

  • November 17, 2024

    In a toxic bubble

    Senior Punjab Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Friday that it has turned into a “health crisis”

  • October 27, 2024

    On a heap of garbage

    A glimpse of the lower depths of our society is bound to leave you very depressed

  • October 20, 2024

    The reality of an illusion

    Punjab CM declares that alleged rape of a college student in Lahore was “fabricated news”

  • October 13, 2024

    The adventures of Gandapur

    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM Ali Amin Gandapur addresses a public gathering in this undated photo. — Facebook/AliAminKhanGandapurPti/FileWe have so many...

  • October 06, 2024

    Revolution made easy

    Supporters and activists of the PTI shout slogans during a protest in Islamabad on October 4, 2024. — AFPOne more time, Imran Khan’s party...

  • September 29, 2024

    Culture in times of trouble

    Epic renditions at festival, with media partners Geo and Jang Group, leave audience reveling in rich global diversity of music

  • September 22, 2024

    When mobs rule

    The history of violence and murders that relate to charges and allegations of blasphemy is long and unbearable

  • September 15, 2024

    What’s worrying you, really?

    CM Gandapur has provided enough material for a "cinematic thriller"

  • September 08, 2024

    Who owns Pakistan?

    The manner in which the SUVs and luxury vehicles lord it over on roads is one example of the gap that exists between, say, ‘us and them’

  • September 01, 2024

    Balochistan’s ‘game of thrones’

    What happened during the Sunday-Monday night has shaken the country

  • August 25, 2024

    Maladies not interpreted

    Karsaz accident triggered an emotional response across the country

  • August 18, 2024

    Hold your breath

    The process of a field general court martial had been initiated against them

  • August 11, 2024

    Making sense of Bangladesh

    There is hardly any parallel in modern history to bondage that exists between what is now Pakistan and what is now Bangladesh

  • August 04, 2024

    Getting to know Pakistan

    It should, essentially, be the task of our rulers to study and decipher our fundamental problems

  • July 28, 2024

    Thank heavens for the Olympics

    Our only hope for a gold medal is Arshad Nadeem, in the category of men’s javelin throw

  • July 21, 2024

    Trump on the horizon

    For his followers, Trump dodged that bullet because he is the man of destiny

  • July 14, 2024

    What’s going on?

    There is no clarity about what is happening and where we are headed as a nation

  • July 07, 2024

    Wealth of a nation

    A number of Ismail Kadare's novels are considered masterpieces and are translated into around 40 languages

  • June 23, 2024

    Barbarians in our midst

    A representational image showing furniture set on fire by a mob at Madyan police station, in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on June 20, 2024. — Geo...

  • June 16, 2024

    Deficits in our lives

    Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb presents federal budget before the National Assembly on June 12, 2024. — PID There is this quotation from...

  • June 09, 2024

    Modi is cut to size

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures, at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2024. — Reuters Is there...

  • June 02, 2024

    Unthinkable thoughts

    A representational image showing University of Karachi students carrying a large national flag as part of the Independence Day celebrations. —...

  • May 26, 2024

    The times they are a-sizzlin’

    Climate activists hold placards as they take part in a demonstration in support of the environmental and climate protection movement ‘Fridays for...

  • May 19, 2024

    Two days that shook Quetta

    A session in the Pakistan Literature Festival held in Quetta is seen on May 17, 2024. —  Facebook/ACPKHIWhen you look at the map of Pakistan,...

  • May 12, 2024

    Another day of infamy

    Police fire teargas shell towards Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party activists and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan to disperse them...

  • May 05, 2024

    An opportunity being lost

     Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pictured alongside President Asif Ali Zardari. — INP/FileBeing a man of action in the lazy setting of...

  • April 28, 2024

    A broken, bleeding society

    This image shows Karachi Police personnel and commandos standing guard on November 29, 2023. — Facebook/Karachi Police - KPOEvery morning when I...

  • April 07, 2024

    A disdain for reality

    We tend to behave as if there is no dire and imminent threat to our well-being, as a country and as a society

  • March 31, 2024

    Ides of March

    Representational image. — UnsplashBeware the Ides of March. This well-known quotation was, we know, the warning given to Julius Caesar, in...

  • March 24, 2024

    Saying it with bricks

    A clip of Gandapur’s hot-blooded remarks was shown on some channels and circulated on social media

  • March 17, 2024

    Counting our deficits

    A woman views prices of rice being sold at a shop in Pakistan. — AFP/FileWith this week’s advent of Ramazan, our lives have changed in some...

  • March 03, 2024

    Can’t take them on

    His murder took place at high-end Kohsar Market in Islamabad where Salmaan Taseer had arrived to meet friends in a restaurant

  • February 25, 2024

    Lives people live

    Incidentally, being a journalist also allows me to peep into the gilded lives of the rich and the famous

  • February 18, 2024

    A Kafkaesque nightmare

    Over a week after contested general elections, outcome remains uncertain

  • February 11, 2024

    The morning after

    Original sin, of course, was to select Imran Khan as saviour of nation and then to groom and launch him in 2018

  • February 04, 2024

    Now, the chase sequence

    When one of the time bombs seemingly planted for the final days of the electoral campaign exploded on Tuesday morning, there naturally was a rush of...