Auditor-General of Pakistan replaced illegally
AGP-nominee convicted of sexual harassment at previous posting, has dual nationality, carries four passports, two national identity cards simultaneously.…
Gender-based violence: Transgendered people complain of victimisation by ASF personnel
Airport Security Forces (ASF), at least at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport, have apparently not been given any standard operating procedures for dealing…
Lawyering the law
What we have right now *is* Jinnah’s Pakistan; and Iqbal’s and Syed Ahmed Khan’s. What we need, on the other hand, is…
Take the bitter pill
MNA Ayaz Amir might have gained some sympathy for having to grapple with such grave charges, but he lost our votes when…
The buck stops where?
While cyclical bouts of violence have become a permanent feature of the city since December 2008, the situation has begun to get…
Osama bin Laden: What really happened?
No one knows, really, except for a select few at the top of the military echelon, and few…
‘Go away helicopter…’
Almost a decade after it began, the search for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden finally culminated in the…
Stop gendering children
Seeking to genderise children not only discourages them from questioning existing social relationships and breaking falsely-ascribed shackles, it…
The dirty ‘S’ word in Pakistan
Images aired earlier this month where lawyers and other citizens in Pakistan were seen garlanding and felicitating the…
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Nature versus nurture
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TFSA ’11: Bringing Southasia to Karachi
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When revenge and ‘jihad’ become work
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‘They won’t move anyway; why can’t we profit?’
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The reign of armed goons
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BRC terms Shahzain’s Nine-Zero visit bigger farce than his arrest
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Case won, but sodomiser gets away with only three years imprisonment
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More no-go areas, and not just because of target-killers
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Lyari up in arms against Nabeel Gabol
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What’s going on in Karachi?
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A people divided
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JSQM condemns abuse of blasphemy laws; will protest after 17th
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Growing up ‘Southasian’
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Sultan Masjid khateeb declares Sherry Rehman ‘kafir’, ‘wajibul qatl’
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Family of blasphemy accused demands justice, protection
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Remembering a liberal
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Keeping fingers crossed for 2011 after bloody 2010
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Karachi at war
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Karachi to get pro-MQM DCO?
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YEAR-ENDER — CDGK: Long road to commissionerate system?
Turf wars; Mission: Karachi
Initiating a turf war with an already-paranoid ‘ally’ is not the best method of keeping said…
Saleem Shahzad: The price one pays
One wonders how many more deaths would be required before the industry as a whole decides…
What do you mean Faiz Ahmed Faiz is dead?!
You learn new things every day. For instance, just this week, I found out that Faiz…
Off with everyone’s heads!
“We will protest Valentine’s Day and protect Namoos-e-Risalat,” the rabbits chanted. The question that Aisha was…
