Our essential reads for the week
Rana Saadullah Khan sat down with Dur e Aziz Amna, author of ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ, during her recent trip to Lahore, for a conversation on craft, literary inspirations, writing philosophy and the worlds her protagonists inhabit.
The security protocols of banks in Pakistan may or may not protect us from outside fraud, but certainly seem designed to protect us from ourselves
Family and community is broken. Can it be fixed?
This Is Where the Serpent Lives strives for scope but reduces class and gender to the familiar
Fatima Bhuttoโs highly anticipated memoir, The Hour of The Wolf (Granta, 2026), is ostensibly a powerful memoir of grief, love and heartbreak. For Shanzay Asim, who read it in the company of her own cats, Yoko and Tintin, it also reads as validation for the devotion to her own pets. Moving from an unconditional love of (and from) a pet, Bhuttoโs Jack Russell Terrier, Coco, to the toxic love of a narcissist, the memoir is a forensic examination of how we can survive the wreckage of human cruelty by clinging to the purity of animal devotion.
Economist, academic and author of the best-selling book ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐บ-๐๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐บ Thomas Piketty has recently turned his attention towards Pakistan and the broader Global South. In a conversation with our columnist Umair Javed, he expounds upon this shift and his own political evolution.
This Is Where the Serpent Lives strives for scope but reduces class and gender to the familiar
Fatima Bhuttoโs highly anticipated memoir, The Hour of The Wolf (Granta, 2026), is ostensibly a powerful memoir of grief...
Anissa Helou is a London-based chef, teacher and author who specialises in cooking and writing recipes for Mediterranean...
When a major Pakistani political figure is hanged, OK Town erupts in protest. A few miles away, Sir Baghi is surprised b...
โ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ: ๐๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉโ by Uzair Younus wonders if instead of a collapse, we are on t...
In Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys (2025), Argentine journalist and novelist Mariana Enriquez bl...
๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ถ by Fauzia Rafique, translated from the Punjabi by Haider Shahbaz (2025), follows Muhammad Hussain Khan โ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ถโ who...
Maha Khan Phillips takes us on a whirlwind, absorbing adventure in her fourth novel, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ.
By Saba Imtiaz
By Umair Javed
By Maryam Jillani
By Haroon Sethi
Stories, Cultures, and Landscapes
Reflecting on the Zeitgeist
The security protocols of banks in Pakistan may or may not protect us from outside fraud, but certainly seem designed to protect us from ourselves
Mar 10, 2026
Family and community is broken. Can it be fixed?
Mar 06, 2026
The security protocols of banks in Pakistan may or may not protect us from outside fraud, but certainly seem designed to protect us from ourselves
Mar 10, 2026
Family and community is broken. Can it be fixed?
Mar 06, 2026
SPORTS
Pakistani cricket has become synonymous with unpredictability. Despite occasional flashes of brilliance, watching the te...
SPORTS
After a four-year hiatus, Pakistan has finally progressed beyond the group stage at an ICC tournament. This qualificatio...
At the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, the European Union and its leading member states were no longer willing to quietly acquiesce to Washingtonโs demands under President Donald Trump.
Trumpโs interest in Greenland is not new. During his first term, his suggestion that the United States should โbuyโ Greenland was widely mocked, dismissed as a diplomatic oddity. Ahmad Jamal Wattoo looks at the strategic logic beneath the spectacle.
Debt-for-climate swaps are no longer boutique transactions, but are being pitched as a central tool to help countries break free from the vicious cycle of debt distress and climate vulnerability. Can the G77+China succeed in making them more than symbolic, clever deals on the margins?
