Cafe Pyala

Every newspaper does year-enders, you know those things that sum up what happened in the past year that everyone already knows about and wh...

I had half made up my mind to tweet about my impressions of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf 's (PTI's) Karachi rally today (yes, I did go d...

I had promised a comprehensive post about the unraveling of Husain Haqqani when it first happened. The different aspects of the case (techn...

Apparently some erstwhile DawnNews staffers are mighty miffed that we haven't given the sudden closure of Express 24/7 early this mor...

Now that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has unfortunately allegedly indefinitely deferred its proposed ban on scurrilous ...

I have been meaning to write about a clip from the DawnNews show Kab Ta k titled ' Hasool-e-Insaaf Ki Jidojehd ' (The Struggle fo...

"Laal’s new and most revolutionary video to date. Please paste to your profile to spread awareness against religious extremism....

We have been frequent critics of Imran Khan the politician in the past and with very good reason. I still hold that his prescriptions for ...

Much has already been written and will be written about Begum Nusrat Bhutto , who passed away yesterday. I don't wish to regurgitate th...

I had the chance, or misfortune, to stumble upon yesterday's Khari Baat Lucman Ke Saath on its repeat today and I am still reeling at ...

Credit for digging up this Video of the Day, and even inspiring the title should go to @shahidsaeed on Twitter... This is from the anti- ...

You know how, sometimes, you want to write a post on something big and important but then along comes something trivial but so funny that ...

“Ever wondered what you could do in light of ongoing terrorism, the Haqqani network, the Taliban, the al Qaeda? Tried shooting off a punch...

I had not actually planned to write this post but am doing so on the insistence of some of our friends on Twitter who think, quite rightly,...

In this lead story from the online edition of the New York Time s on the 26th of September, reporter Carlotta Gall humanizes one of the 1...