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Jinnah’s children

WE still haven’t figured out exactly who Mohammad Ali Jinnah — Quaid-i-Azam — is or was, even in 2024. Westernised liberal secular, or champion...

01.06.2024 200

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Tectonic shifts

WHEN I was a teenager, the world was divided between the First World and Third World, terms first defined by the French anthropologist Alfred Sauvy in...

30.04.2024 200

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Criminalising hate

THERE is a Stephen Spielberg movie called Minority Report, based on a Philip K. Dick science fiction novella set in the year 2054. Tom Cruise plays a...

15.04.2024 90

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War, art and truth

IT’S a question that writers and artists have always asked themselves: in times of difficulty, stress, chaos and darkness, what role can art and...

30.03.2024 100

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Women emerging

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is in March. Throughout the month, there are wo­men’s rights marches, celebrations, and conferences, globally and in...

16.03.2024 100

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War of no words

THE 15th Karachi Literature Festival took place against a backdrop of conflict and protest against the Israeli war in Gaza, which has been going on...

08.03.2024 100

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