Stories by Mushtaq Soofi
Joyful noises are no longer heard about the concept and practice of multiculturalism. The concept per se isn’t ...
Published 10 Nov, 2025 05:43am
It hasn’t happened for the first time. It has happened before during various regimes, dictatorships and...
Published 27 Oct, 2025 05:52am
The scene is hilarious. Governments Punjab and Sindh are up in arms against each other which has done better in the...
Published 13 Oct, 2025 07:36am
When Lord Buddha said that the world was a house full of sufferings he pointed to one of the most fundamental...
Published 06 Oct, 2025 07:41am
We can rightly be proud of Harappa civilisation aka Indus civilisation which had an advanced urban society about...
Published 01 Sep, 2025 04:42am
In Punjab’s cultural history we face a peculiar problem; how to differentiate between poets and saints. One can...
Updated 14 Jul, 2025 08:50am
The first recorded description of Punjab found in Rigveda, the first and foremost scripture of the subcontinent, is...
Published 21 Apr, 2025 05:23am
Anew group of like-minded friends in the meantime emerged that decided to establish a platform to have regular...
Updated 14 Apr, 2025 08:08am
When you read or hear about death it is usually news, a piece of information that seems to leave no impact on you....
Published 07 Apr, 2025 07:49am
When I was working for Pakistan Television, a colleague, who was a senior cameraman, narrated an anecdote over a cup...
Published 16 Sep, 2024 07:07am
Immigrants, legal and illegal, from the former colonies have been trickling into western societies for decades. The...
Published 02 Sep, 2024 07:46am
Karachi has been a wonderful city. It still is. A stunning mosaic of cultural groups, it is a microcosm of...
Updated 04 Mar, 2025 01:18pm
Dhanni ke Sufi Shu’ara (Dhanni’s Sufi poets) is Ali Khan’s book published by Warq Publications, Chakwal. The...
Published 15 Jul, 2024 08:51am
Caste consciousness permeates our cultural practices. It’s rooted in our individual and social make-up to the...
Published 10 Jun, 2024 07:33am
Asif Khan published Damodar’s text generally known as Heer Damodar in 1986. Four years later in 1990 Najam Hosain...
Published 13 May, 2024 08:23am
Naveed Shahzad is a well-known poet, research scholar and literary critic having more than a score of books to his...
Published 29 Apr, 2024 07:56am
Which is older, poetry or storytelling? It seems both are equally old as there is no evidential certainty as to ...
Published 08 Apr, 2024 07:03am
A sage from our subcontinent says: “There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.” Does it seem...
Published 18 Mar, 2024 07:44am
Allow me to share what I saw last week which was, by the way, nothing unusual. But it’s worth reporting. I drove...
Updated 11 Mar, 2024 09:16am
Neelum Ahmad Basheer is a well-known Urdu writer and has a visible presence on the literary landscape. She has a...
Published 05 Feb, 2024 07:59am
