投稿者: Fatima Bhutto
Many of those who drowned near Greece last month were escaping environmental crises in Pakistan. Across the world there is far worse to comeBefore the Adriana, an overcrowded fishing trawler, left Libya on 9 June, Sajjad Yousef spoke to his father. His…
When my country, Pakistan, flooded last year, women faced particular suffering. That’s true around the worldLast summer, a third of Pakistan was underwater. My country, the fifth most populous in the world, was submerged. Two million homes were destroy…
Try as the industry might, Modi’s quasi-fascist politics cannot be set to jaunty music and helicopter stuntsIf recent Bollywood films are any indication, it is fair to say that India’s film industry is obsessed with Pakistan. Obsessed. Like standing ou…
Freed from the shadow of 9/11, the country’s artists are building on a rich heritage – to international acclaimIn August, Pakistan’s three censor boards cleared Saim Sadiq’s award-winning film Joyland for release. Shot in Lahore, the film is about a yo…
Those who don’t die from the floods risk death by starvation – yet you’ve probably heard little about the devastationToday, Pakistan, the world’s fifth-most-populous country, is fighting for its survival. This summer, erratic monsoon rains battered the…
From fragile leaders to invisible workers, anger is shimmering throughout the serpentine politics of Pakistan and IndiaOn the morning of 3 December, Priyantha Kumara, the 49-year-old export manager of Rajco Industries, asked his workers to remove a sti…
Sarmad Khoosat was the darling of Pakistan’s entertainment industry until his new film, the haunting and elegiac Zindagi Tamasha, fell foul of fundamentalists – who called for him to be beheadedSarmad Khoosat was having an early morning cigarette in Bu…