Pakistan frames its transport crisis as an affordability problem. It is actually an institutional one — and every fuel shock makes
Published 19 Apr, 2026 09:31am
The ‘beautiful game’ is being spoiled by time-wasting — can anything be done about it ahead of the World Cup?
Published 19 Apr, 2026 09:39am
Once a thriving harbour town, Sukhi Bandar now lies beneath the Arabian Sea. Its disappearance tells a larger story — of a delta
Published 19 Apr, 2026 09:45am
As Pakistan gets ready to participate in the Venice Biennale for only the second time, Eos speaks with Faiza Butt, the artist...
Updated 19 Apr, 2026 10:29am
As countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia move away from past Islamist frameworks, a new, more pragmatic regional identity is emerging.
Updated 19 Apr, 2026 09:54am
A very secret fable about a very secret cave, very secret guests and the machinery behind world-changing events…
Published 19 Apr, 2026 10:15am
‘Everyone Doubts Me After My CSS Exam Failure’
Published 19 Apr, 2026 10:18am
From water stress to weak pollination, a number of factors can cause coconut trees to drop underdeveloped nuts — here’s what...
Published 19 Apr, 2026 10:21am
The numbers tell us that a cheaper, cleaner future is within reach, if the state chooses to act before the next hit.
Updated 16 Apr, 2026 01:13pm
The trope is not the result of a personality flaw in individual storytellers. It is a narrative technique. And from Robinson Cruso
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
When Cyrus the Great defeated Babylon, he handed the exiled Jews something they had not had in decades…
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
Dina Patel grew up watching her parents race across Pakistan’s desert terrain. Now 22, she has become the country’s first female
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
Roy Medvedev, who died in February this year, lived through nearly the entire Soviet century — and spent most of it insisting
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
In her latest body of work, Shanzay Subzwari transforms loss into a meditative visual language rendered in luminous colours
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
As faith in global institutions erodes, must a new hegemon rise or is an alternative possible?
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
From Barack Obama to Imran Khan, political history shows that mass appeal rarely translates into effective governance.
Updated 12 Apr, 2026 11:22am
Some dishes soar, some fall short and the ambience does a lot of the heavy lifting — but Mizu still earns its place at Karachi’s
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
‘My Father Does Not Listen To My Advice’
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
The coconut gives oil, water, milk and meat. Getting to any of it requires years of waiting and, eventually, someone willing
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:34am
While authorities claim that the newly created National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) is ‘modernising digital law...
Published 05 Apr, 2026 07:21am
By launching strikes on Iran even as negotiations were underway, Washington may have secured short-term military gains at the cost of long-term diplomatic credibility.
Published 05 Apr, 2026 07:37am
The ongoing ‘renovation’ of the shrine in Kasur of Sufi poet Bulleh Shah is mired in a shocking lack of vision — choosing pomp...
Published 05 Apr, 2026 07:42am
“I was roaming around the streets when fate brought boxing to me,” exclaims Qudratullah, looking back at how he...
Published 05 Apr, 2026 07:52am
A Pakistani woman’s experiences of participating in collective prayers at mosques in Istanbul stand in stark contrast to her...
Published 05 Apr, 2026 08:00am
By overlaying the golden ratio on to photographs of violence, Aroosa Rana re-frames how we look at images of conflict and
Published 05 Apr, 2026 08:10am
Drawing upon botanical imagery, Sabah Husain’s works create a lyrical archive of nature, loss and cultural remembrance
Published 05 Apr, 2026 08:16am
Pakistan is recalibrating its foreign policy by focusing on strategic realism and geo-economic priorities.
Updated 05 Apr, 2026 09:31am
Iran says even their angels don’t know who Trump is talking to. Butterfly has a diagnosis, a treatment plan and the number of a...
Published 05 Apr, 2026 08:23am
‘My ‘Friends’ Bully Me’
Published 05 Apr, 2026 08:26am
Few trees reward a grower’s patience quite like the coconut palm. But getting it right starts early…
Published 05 Apr, 2026 08:35am
New museums, revived public spaces, and growing youth participation in and engagement with the arts are reshaping Karachi’s...
Updated 30 Mar, 2026 04:25pm
As the world observes the International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, Pakistan’s historically
marginalised
Updated 29 Mar, 2026 11:06am
The sport has changed the architecture of its engines, forced drivers to rethink aerodynamics and strategy, and switched
Published 29 Mar, 2026 07:27am
In 1613, the East India Company established its first major trading base in the Arabian Sea at Surat in Indian Gujarat. Another
Updated 31 Mar, 2026 05:45pm
A brief treatise by a well-known Pakistani economist explores the impact of ethnic friction on the success or failure of nations
Published 19 Apr, 2026 11:57am
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Persian language poets in Iran and India established a parallel universe of...
Published 19 Apr, 2026 11:54am
A new Urdu novel imagines the life of Ruttie Jinnah, bringing to life a woman lost in the margins of history and rescuing her from
Updated 19 Apr, 2026 12:15pm
The English translation of late Fahmida Riaz’s novel Qila-i-Faramoshi offers the Anglophone world a window into ancient Persian...
Published 19 Apr, 2026 11:49am
In his latest memoir, British author Ziauddin Sardar reflects on love, loss and language as he remembers three women who
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:08am
A recent book attempts to decode the patterns of power and politics in Pakistan by connecting these dynamics with examples from
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:08am
A gripping collection of Urdu short stories feature Karachi as a vibrant metropolis in which individuals from diverse communities
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:08am
The Argentinian genius of a writer Jorge Luis Borges once said: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a...
Published 12 Apr, 2026 06:08am
A naval historian revisits the Battle of Gettysburg during the US Civil War and shows how logistics, leadership and luck decided
Published 05 Apr, 2026 09:29am
Philippa Gregory revisits the Tudor court through Jane Boleyn, a woman who survived longer than most in King Henry VIII’s...
Published 05 Apr, 2026 09:23am
Adrian H. Husain’s latest collection of sonnets explore memory, time and the fragmented nature of recollection
Published 05 Apr, 2026 09:18am
A debut Urdu short story collection explores empathy and inequality
Published 05 Apr, 2026 09:07am
Lt Gen (retd) Talat Masood’s memoirs are a military man’s recollections about his own idealism and professional
Published 29 Mar, 2026 07:18am
A debut novel tells the tale of a complex friendship between two young women while also exploring themes such as narcissism
Published 29 Mar, 2026 07:18am
Through a series of dialogues with scholars, a recent Urdu book examines language, identity and culture across South Asia
Published 29 Mar, 2026 07:17am
The poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was written by T.S. Eliot in 1915. Despite the poet’s young age — ...
Published 29 Mar, 2026 07:16am
The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women calls for women writers to submit for its 2026 competition. The...
Published 29 Mar, 2026 07:15am
A powerful debut novel merges suspense with emotional depth and captures the dangerous allure of acceptance in an age
Published 19 Mar, 2026 07:06am
Former Senator Farhatullah Babar’s book of memoirs aims to set the record straight by putting the spotlight on the low-key
Published 19 Mar, 2026 07:06am
A meticulously researched book offers a corrective to decades of selective memory, political appropriation and historical
Published 19 Mar, 2026 07:06am
