PUBLISHED April 26, 2026 “I spent forty years shaping women into strong, confident individuals—able to protect themselves, spread happiness, and live with dignity. But today, across countless channels, the same woman is shown beaten, helpless, and in tears,” said renowned playwright Haseena Moin, in an interview once, before she passed …
PUBLISHED April 12, 2026 WH Auden once said, “The poet is himself enchanted by the subjects he writes about and wishes only to share his enchantment with others.” And this goes perfectly well for Adeeba Shahid Talukder, a Pakistani and Bengali-American poet, vocalist, and translator, whose poetry book titled Shahr-e-jaanaan: …
PUBLISHED March 22, 2026 KARACHI: The new season follows Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson), the second-eldest son of the wealthy and prestigious Bridgerton family in the Regency Era, and one of the show’s most charismatic male leads. In what might have been a severe dearth of plots, Benedict who up until …
PUBLISHED March 22, 2026 KARACHI: They say that television shows based on books tend to lose their edge as the seasons pile up. Characters become repetitive, conflicts feel recycled, and the initial spark that drew audiences in begins to fade. In the case of The Lincoln Lawyer, however, that old …
PUBLISHED March 22, 2026 It’s late at night on a highway dhaba in Punjab, where music travels farther than conversation. A truck idles nearby, its cabin speakers pushing out a Punjabi track that everyone at the tea stall seems to recognise. Drivers tap their fingers on steel cups, bobbing their …
PUBLISHED March 15, 2026 TURBAT: In the southwestern part of the province of Balochistan, Iies Makran, where the Arabian Sea meets the majestic mountains, and the sea breeze, gulls and birds seem to sing songs of longing, sorrow and affection. The melodies rise softly, fleshing out memories of yore. Since …
PUBLISHED March 15, 2026 Art in Pakistan is shifting. No longer is it about dusty galleries and oil portraits; it’s the time for glowing screens, a generation that knows how to blend the old with the new. They are building their own platforms, launching startups, and finding their way into …
A lot depends on Pakistan’s film and cinema industry this Eid al-Fitr. The long holiday weekend arrives as audiences increasingly choose OTT platforms over theatres, convinced that their time and money are better spent watching content on services like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. Recent local releases such as Neelofar …
PUBLISHED March 08, 2026 The cinema of a region is never merely a sequence of images, it is a choreography of belonging. To speak of South Asia on screen is to invoke not a stable geography but a vibrating field of memory, partition, aspiration and loss. The image flickers between …
By HAMMAD SARFRAZ/Musfira Khurshid | Design by: Ibrahim Yahya PUBLISHED March 08, 2026 KARACHI: Over time, billboards across major cities have begun to use the language of empowerment, celebrating the “strong woman,” the “empowered leader,” the “girl boss,” especially closer to special occasions such as International Women’s Day. In that …
