Huma Yusuf
Ten days, three plays. Thanks to a recent craze for theatre festivals, Karachiites who enjoy live performances are...
Published 07 Mar, 2010 12:00am
iv id= PAKISTAN is a nation desperately in need of heroes. Our politicians dissimulate, our cricketers disappoint,...
Published 07 Mar, 2010 12:00am
KARACHI A comedy only succeeds if it reveals something true about society or human nature. Mohabbat Bhi, Qayamat Bhi...
Published 04 Mar, 2010 12:00am
Children may miss the neat allegory here, but adults will certainly pick up on the similarities between Katha`s...
Published 01 Mar, 2010 12:00am
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Published 21 Feb, 2010 12:00am
iv id= Pakistanis have always had a taste for delicious ironies — and we can always count on our leaders to serve...
Published 14 Feb, 2010 12:00am
The front of this Rs100 currency note is a part of a series presented to the Quaid-e-Azam by the Ministry of ...
Published 14 Feb, 2010 12:00am
Gathered around a table with Karachi-based bloggers on Tuesday evening, Farah Pandith, the US Special Representative...
Published 10 Feb, 2010 08:40pm
COMING on the heels of the Ashura tragedy, the two blasts in Karachi on Friday are a reminder that sectarian ...
Published 07 Feb, 2010 12:00am
This file photo taken on Sep. 26, 2008 shows fighters with Afghanistans Taliban militia standing on a hillside at...
Published 01 Feb, 2010 12:00am
IN the matter of reintegrating Taliban fighters into Afghan society, the question is no longer whether to talk or...
Published 31 Jan, 2010 12:00am
iv id= Urban theorist Michel de Certeau famously wrote that the only way to “see” New York City was from the 110th...
Published 31 Jan, 2010 12:00am
iv id= Although think tanks in the United States are working overtime to solve the Pakistan `problem`, their final...
Published 24 Jan, 2010 12:00am
AS Shakespeare aptly told us, roses, no matter what you call them, will smell as sweet. The same, metaphorically...
Published 17 Jan, 2010 12:00am
INTERIOR Minister Rehman Malik stated on Friday that there are no similarities between the situation in Karachi and...
Published 10 Jan, 2010 12:00am
KARACHI A man in the throes of a mid-life crisis. A woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A city in decline,...
Published 09 Jan, 2010 12:00am
A soldier stands guard on a military vehicle at checkpoint on a road near the Saudi border in the western Yemeni...
Published 03 Jan, 2010 12:00am
THOMAS Jefferson famously said that he would prefer newspapers without government to a government without ...
Published 27 Dec, 2009 12:00am
THE stage is being set for a military operation in North Waziristan, whether the Pakistani establishment likes it or...
Published 20 Dec, 2009 12:00am
KARACHI In performing William Shakespeare`s`Othello`, the third-year students at Napa seem to be challenging...
Published 15 Dec, 2009 12:00am
