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Tonight I attended the Shanaakht [Identity] festival going on for the last three days in Karachi. A truly commendable and well-organized ev...

Someone sent me this gem from today's The News . Ok, I know one is not supposed to make fun of people's ailments but, actually, th...

Consider opening an account here next time...! Btw, skeptic that I am, I checked. There is actually a place by this name in Jharkand s...

How popular is the MQM in Baltistan? Take a look at this photo of its rally in Skardu, published on the front page of the daily Express on...

This is a picture of the Westminster Bridge. Now do you understand why Pakistani politicians keep harping about the "Westminster st...

I have to say I am almost speechless. Was watching a long wrap up report today on Geo News about Hillary Clinton's visit to Pakistan a...

Geo tried once-again to be hip today. The results were predictably funny. (I was alerted to this by a forwarded text, so thanks to the write...

Ok, so I have to admit I have always had a soft spot for Fatima Bhutto. Not only because of all that she has endured growing up and because...

Wow! How time flies! Just realized it's been a full two weeks (!) since our last post! This is of course troubling, because it's not...

How I wish there were a similar programme about Pakistani TV news! Watch this hilarious clip and tell me you didn't think of Geo! The...

So, apparently, the latest victim of the bursting media bubble is Samaa TV, which today sacked some half a dozen people, and rumours are rif...

I have been meaning to do a proper post about the Kerry-Lugar bill and the nauseating media frenzy that's been whipped up about it, for ...

There are some very interesting things happening in the media sector, our moles are telling us... It would seem that some major upheavals ar...

Chanced across this news on the MusicPakistan website, posted on September 20. I have no idea if it is true or not, but don't say you...

So, once again we've all disappeared for a bit. Eid and all that... Just wanted to share this story from Dawn's Business pages wi...

First of all, a big shout-out to Tazeen who wrote an excellent post on her blog about that neanderthal proto-Talib Junaid Jamshed and what...

I don't even know what to say... On Javed Chaudhry's usually boring-as-hell show on Express 24/7 yesterday, PPP's Firdous Ashiq ...

I was planning on writing something about the despicable hypocrisy and shallow classism of the media's handling of the Meera controversy...

So yeah, while the mud keeps flying between the Majeed and Arif Nizami camps - apparently nowhere more so than right here in the comments ...

Have a look at this quarter page PAID paean in today's Dawn, from Sindh Minister for Local Government Agha Siraj Durrani to his boss, bu...