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What’s the best way to react when someone criticises your art? What do you do when you’ve been slaving through sleepless nights, honing the edges of and fine-tuning a movie that is the culminati

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It has been a terrible year for Nawaz Sharif and his family to say the least. From his own disqualification from active politics for life, to his heir apparent Maryam Nawaz facing similar consequences

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When Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa took over from Raheel Sharif, he inherited what was a somewhat lukewarm situation with respect to the security situation in the country and relations with the civilia

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The Islamabad High Court’s decision in the final month of the year to take Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain off television, radio and print media until further notice was probably a terrible miscue<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/01/02/newsmakers-2017-amir-liaquat-hussain/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Oh, Ayesha Gulalai. It is a sad, confusing tale whichever way you look at it. Trust the rabid PTIlot and you’re of the opinion that she’s doing the devil’s work and trying to slander Imran Kha

Regardless of the incalculable amount expended for the expansion of roads and related infrastructural projects by the Punjab government, the chaotic traffic congestion in Lahore is still far from bein

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It is a mystery. The enduring electoral popularity of Nawaz Sharif is something that has puzzled many. The self-deprecatory explanation offered by Punjabis (about other Punjabis, but not themselves, G

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Though there wasn’t much doubt about who is going to be carrying forth the legacy of the PML(N) chief, it truly became clear this year that it was going to be Maryam Nawaz.Her foray into practical

This wasn’t the first year the judiciary has sent a prime minister packing; that happened during the last government as well. And, this being Pakistan, in both these instances, there was somehow the

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The Sharifs have a history of appointing uninspiring, inert individuals to some of the highest offices of the land. Compare the stylish and suave Salman Taseer with the current Governor of the Punjab,

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He has been a posterboy for the conservative right. And we mean that literally. When he was spiritedly following up on the case of online blasphemy, going to the extent of saying that he would call th

With the colossal increase in street crimes, safety and protection of our valuables has risen as a concern of immense significance for the people of Pakistan. Of all our belongings, our wallets are th