Cafe Pyala

From an oped about the treatment meted out to Veena Malik  on Kamran Shahid 's tabloidy Front Line programme on Express , titled "...

If you had any doubts about what Meher Bokhari , the recently removed host of Samaa 's Newsbeat programme, is going through these days...

First of all, on behalf of all of us, I wish to offer an apology for the lack of updates in the last 10 days. Call it a combination of too m...

... but who could have foreseen this... Picture of the Day courtesy the blog Capital Quips .

Ansar Abbasi triumphantly points out on the front page of The News today that what is "generally ignored in the ongoing discussions ...

Ab roshni hoti hai ke ghar jalta hai dekhain Shola sa tawaaf-e-dar-o-deewaar karay hai - Mir Taqi Mir [Will it lead to light or the house b...

In my last post, I included an alleged fatwa by an alleged mufti Muhammad Idris Usmani associated allegedly with a seminary called Jamia I...

Further evidence of the depths to which some in Pakistan have sunk. This is a short video of the Murtid Qadri being presented in court yes...

" Mera azm itna buland hai ke paraye shaulon ka dar nahin Mujhe khauf aatish-e-gul se hai, ye kaheen chaman ko jala ne de " [My re...

The 6th Karachi International Book Fair was held in Karachi this week. More than 300 publishers/ booksellers, more than a quarter million v...

I had been contemplating writing an update on Geo for over a week but the latest news has forced my hand. According to our very credible in...

So, Dr S&M sent us an email this morning asking us to place his statement on our website. At first we weren't quite sure whether it...