Amber Rahim Shamsi
Content regulation is a struggle, but there are better ways to do it than wanting the muscle to control information.
Updated 11 Mar, 2023 10:01am
Not all journalists drink the access Rooh Afza.
Published 16 Jan, 2022 07:22am
Built at a cost of 230 million rupees, Violence Against Women Centre is being touted as a refuge for women.
Updated 28 Mar, 2017 09:26am
“IF [my supporters] are stopped, there will be fighting. If the police stop them there will be destruction and if...
Updated 26 Oct, 2016 10:02am
What has prompted all this? An eye for an eye. Green and white over the Indian tricolour.
Updated 22 Oct, 2016 01:14pm
Discovered a decade after Mohenjodaro and Harappa, Bhamala lies broken and looted.
Published 12 Jun, 2016 09:14am
Media reports are calling her death controversial; her family says it is suicide.
Updated 17 Jul, 2014 08:55am
Paper crinkles in the dark. One, two, three … a pile of sad, empty wrappers grows like something alive. Here’s a...
Published 02 Jul, 2010 11:36am
The deadline for the end of the ban on Facebook is almost upon us; farms have been ruined, parties gone ...
Published 28 May, 2010 10:36am
How much of our own fantasies do we live out through our children? This struck me as I organised my daughters’...
Published 22 May, 2010 05:44pm
My friend Aisha has a new theory: instead of suppressing the craving for a slice of chocolate cake, smell it. Fool...
Published 07 May, 2010 11:50am
Remember the Gold Leaf man? Suavely strolling through museum exhibits in his fine suit and riding thoroughbreds in...
Published 26 Apr, 2010 03:07pm
To the Aunty in the Purple Bellbottoms, I am sorry I stepped on your foot as I plunged my hand through the human ...
Published 11 Apr, 2010 11:35am
Now the Shiv Sena has a problem with Indian tennilebrity Sania Mirza marrying Pakistan’s cricket captain Shoaib...
Published 03 Apr, 2010 02:55pm
A colleague of mine used to extinguish his cigarettes in his tea. His favourite Indian actor was Sunil Shetty, and ...
Published 26 Mar, 2010 11:27am
The late afternoon sun gilded our white tea cups. We were talking about stories of National Importance. It’s what...
Published 18 Mar, 2010 05:23pm
Rioting broke out between rival parties Biryani Ittehad-Sindhi [BI(S)] group and Pakistan Pulao Party (PPP) in...
Published 05 Mar, 2010 01:08pm
You always remember your first time. Mine was on the Super Highway between Karachi and Hyderabad in the middle of...
Published 19 Feb, 2010 05:22pm
Asim just wanted a nice romantic dinner with his wife. It was their ninth wedding anniversary and a new Japanese...
Published 05 Feb, 2010 02:02pm
Captain Usman was a lean, rugged doctor in the British Army with a wicked sense of humour and a Clark Gable air ...
Published 11 Jan, 2010 03:04pm
