Miscellaneous

  By Heather Mallick, Toronto Star After finishing Mary Trump’s memoir of growing up with her Uncle Donald, I close

  By I. A. Rahman, Lahore Kishwar Naheed dates the start of her life as a poet from the age

  By Zeenat Hakimjee Very little has been written about the ancient coastal people of Lyari – the irrepressible Makranis

From 1980s Tehran to 2020 New York, a writer reflects on the power of music and togetherness in times of

  By I.A Rehman A GREAT deal of what happens in the country in the immediate future will depend on

Zak Crain PUBLISHED IN FRONTBURNER We caught up with Imam Qamar again to talk about how he’s handling the current pandemic.

  By Irfan Husain EVERY time there’s a manmade or natural global crisis, thousands of people pop out of the

Zahrah Nasir April 26, 2020 Flourishing flower bed | Photo by the writer Q. Every March, I dig up and

  By Sitara Brooj Akbar “The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and

  By Allison Yates When Melissa Scott went on a business trip to Central Asia and the Middle East in

The Duchess of Sussex, 38, will be voicing a Disney documentary on elephants Meghan Markle’s collaboration will benefit Elephants Without Borders

By Will Smale Business reporter, BBC News The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the

By Knvul Sheikh, NYTimes The same nerves involved in the fight-or-flight response can cause permanent damage to the cells responsible for

By Bilal A. SHAMIM The small town where the days of my childhood, adolescence, youth and middle age were cast is

HOW Father Columba Stewart ’79, a Benedictine monk from Minnesota, came to be hiding in a Timbuktu hotel during a jihadist

by Farzana Bilal I’m lost in the woods Of your friendship, Surrounded by love and care, Away from every hardship.

By Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry Kahlon, Lahore (1926-2019) I wrote an article caption” Some aspects of Leadership” in which I

The world’s shortest man who could walk, as verified by Guinness World Records (GWR), has died at a hospital in

By B.A. SHAMIM Reading the works of great writers is a joy unbound for the reader. But being blessed with

by Lee Tzu Pheng (Singapore Cultural Medallion winner) Sip your Coffee Nice and Slow, No one Ever knows when it’s

O YOU MUSLIMS, OPEN YOUR EYES, FOR THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO HAVE EYES YET DO NOT

  B.A.SHAMIM Jhola chhaap doctors or quacks, to be more specific, are itinerant physicians or part-time medical practitioners in the