Adil Najam As the politics of intrigue and rumor heats up, even more, in Pakistan and after the recent dramatic political events, the news of Pakistan’s most important existential battle – against the extremism of the Taliban and their ilk – seems to have slid off the front pages. Yet, a news item in The […]

Pervaiz Munir Alvi Iqbal Hussain (1950- ) is often termed as the ‘controversial artist of Pakistan’. Although he is equally masterful in painting landscape and still life, yet he is best known for his portraits–mostly portraits of women that is. He paints his landscape in romantic hues of dusty pink and soft blue and because […]

Owais Mughal Many of you may also have received this photograph which has been circulating over email. It is a billboard ad. The Urdu words on the advertisement read as ‘Home and Office Furniture’. Do you think it is a funny advertisement or a politically incorrect one? The purpose, one assumes, is to demonstrate the […]