December Issue 2015

Midnight in Paris

December 30, 2015

The New World Disorder

During the course of this year, the conflict zone in and around Syria has emerged…

December 30, 2015

Midnight in Paris

Help me! Help me! I am on fire!” An amateur video of a French police…

December 30, 2015

Editor’s Note: December 2015

No surprises here. As expected, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement at an international conference in…

December 30, 2015

Book Review: The Children Act

Statute laws and emotions influence the course of individual lives in disparate but interconnected ways…

December 30, 2015

Karachi Conference 2015

The third, three-day Karachi Conference (November 6-7) at the Karachi Arts Council was a commendable…

December 29, 2015

Loopholes of the Rich

“Pakistan needs to bolster revenues through broadening the tax base and improve compliance in order…

December 29, 2015

Interview: Mufti Muhammad Naeem

Mufti Muhammad Naeem is the chancellor of the Karachi-based Jamia Binoria, one of the largest…

December 29, 2015

Book Review: Changing India

Changing India is a collection of essays by Iqbalunnisa Hussain, first published in 1940. Compiled…

December 29, 2015

A Life of Gratitude

While travelling in Sindh in July, I made a stopover about 12 kilometers before the…

December 29, 2015

Art Beyond Optics

Recently, in response to my post on Facebook regarding the work of Chinese artist Ai…

December 29, 2015

Book Review: Paracha

Master of the Game – H. M. Habibullah’s life story is the stuff classics and…

December 29, 2015

Turning Point

Every journalist has a story to tell. Teenaz Javat, by blood Indian, by bond Pakistani,…

December 29, 2015

Book Review: Ali Imam’s biography

Books on Pakistani art and artists are not exactly plentiful. But over the years, some…

December 29, 2015

Food Review: Chop Chop Wok

Chop Chop Wok opened shop only a few months ago, yet the tiny eatery has…

December 29, 2015

Say No to Rote Learning

The one consistent complaint that seems to have been voiced by the intelligentsia since the…

December 27, 2015

Faulty Towers

Owners of the residential and commercial properties at Moon Garden Apartments are mired in a…

December 25, 2015

The Past is Present

The group gathered at 4 a.m. Families, young men and women, wired on adrenaline…

December 24, 2015

Instrumental Diplomacy

Cultural exchanges seem to have become the backbone for fostering relations in our fractured world.…

December 23, 2015

Fraud by Fatwa

Jamia Binoria, SITE, Karachi has been in the news for various reasons recently, from the…

December 21, 2015

Life on the Fringe

With four children lying strangled in grotesque forms on the floor, and one on the…

December 21, 2015

The Barbarians are here

Bureaucrats are generally perceived as dim-witted people, devoid of a sense of honour. But this…

December 21, 2015

Air Warp

The advent of the internet threatened most traditional forms of media, including television, print, and…

December 21, 2015

License to Kill?

2015 will go down in history as the year in which the Sindh Police publicly…

December 19, 2015

In Search of a Sale

A video was recently leaked online which showed crewmembers on a PIA flight singing and dancing…

December 19, 2015

Flames of Hate

A violent and uncontrolled mob, the exploitation of religion to camouflage hidden motives, and the complete…

December 19, 2015

Back to the Barracks

If Karachi’s rubble and decay leave you in despair, then consider reconstituting some of…

December 17, 2015

Movie Review: The Peanuts Movie

The Peanuts comic strip, at least for the first 20 years of its nearly half-a-century…

December 17, 2015

Return of the Moral Brigade

On Friday, October 13, the Lal Masjid cleric, Abdul Aziz, threw down yet another menacing…

December 17, 2015

The Art of Survival

Resilience is the key attribute to surviving in today’s big, bad world. For those thick-skinned…

December 15, 2015

Movie Review: Mockingjay, part 2

Ever since the last Harry Potter book was split into two films, almost every other…

December 14, 2015

The IS Footprint in Pakistan

The best chance for the so-called Islamic State (IS), or Daesh as it is commonly…

December 14, 2015

“I’m more than just a filmmaker.” — Muzaffar Ali

At different times in his life, Raja Muzaffar Ali has studied geology, worked in advertising, …

By Ziad Zafar | News & Politics | Published 9 years ago

Help me! Help me! I am on fire!” An amateur video of a French police raid in the Paris suburb of St Denis, conducted five days after the deadly Paris attacks, reveal these to be the last words spoken by Hasna Aitboulahcen, the woman being dubbed Western Europe’s first suicide bomber. Moments later, amid blood-curdling screams and a hail of gunfire, an explosion rips through the apartment. Witnesses report seeing a human head blasted into the street with the force…

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