Manifestos and Minorities on February 1, 2024Political parties have unveiled their manifestos for 2024 elections, and almost all major parties – Pakistan People Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-N (PPP), Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan-F (JUI0F), Istehkam Pakistan Party and PTI-Patriot (PTI-P). A skimmed view of the manifestos shows that the parties have focused on the […]
Manifestos and Minorities on January 31, 2024Political parties have unveiled their manifestos for 2024 elections, and almost all major parties – Pakistan People Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-N (PPP), Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan-F (JUI0F), Istehkam Pakistan Party and PTI-Patriot (PTI-P). A skimmed view of the manifestos shows that the parties have focused on the […]
The last day of @SalmaanTaseer on January 4, 2021The twitter account of him helped me write his name correctly, otherwise before that I would write him Salman Taseer instead of Salmaan Taseer. The account of Shaheed Salmaan Taseer remained one of my favourite hangouts since the day he created it in October 2009. Though the last post on the account landed on Jan […]
How trauma killed the creator of iconic photos – Azhar Jafri on June 29, 2019Azhar Jafri had never been afraid of taking photos of any social evil and getting them published in the newspaper to awake the quarters concerned. His every picture would attract huge public attention and government action. The award-winning celebrity photojournalist’s career spanned over 43 years. His fearless career, however, took fearful turns in March 2013, […]
Back to work after three days in coma, 20 months on bed – a tale of photojournalist on June 24, 2019Whenever he leaves home for work every day, photojournalist Arif Ali’s wife bids him goodbye, saying ‘stay safe’ before closing the door. Apprehensions in her voice are hard to ignore. This ritual has been going on since 1999 when Arif resumed duty as photojournalist with The News after being bed-ridden for almost 20 months. He […]
Beaten for a story – Dilemma of reporter on May 31, 2019LAHORE: When policemen suddenly grabbed and started beating him mercilessly, for several moments, Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui did not comprehend what was going on. The Dawn newspaper reporter, who retired on May 15 this year, was not being thrashed on a public street: it was on the premises of the Punjab Civil Secretariat and at the […]
Life after the blast – photo journalist cheat deaths but not consequences on May 20, 2019Aun Ali was asleep on May 8, 2019 morning when he got a call from his friend at 9 am that a bomb had exploded outside the Hajveri shrine. Within 10 minutes, he was driving his car towards the blast scene. So was Abdul Rehman, his former colleague of Aaj Tv. This was for the […]