December Issue 2013

Remnants of the Past

December 25, 2013

Home is Where the Heart is

In the centre of the Homelands exhibition at the VM Art Gallery, a large glass…

December 21, 2013

Farewell, Nightingale

The heavenly voice of Rajasthan is no more, but she leaves behind a legacy of…

December 18, 2013

Falling Flat

Sabiha Sumar’s Good Morning Karachi, earlier titled Rafina, based on a novella by Shandana Minhas,…

December 18, 2013

For a Peaceful Karachi

I first heard of Pursukoon Karachi when I received a Facebook invitation from one of…

December 17, 2013

Banking on a Mission

When one thinks of the banking sector, philanthropy and altruism aren’t the first things that…

December 16, 2013

Not So Psyched

The wedding season has arrived and top Pakistani fashion designer Umar Sayeed is, as always,…

December 16, 2013

Book Review: Americanah

Of the many contemporary writers emerging from Africa today, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is…

December 15, 2013

Sindh’s Sufi Soul

The Endowment Fund Trust, a non-profit organisation initiated by Hamid Akhund and other concerned citizens,…

December 12, 2013

Sweet Seven

As Lal’s Chocolates turned seven last month, the luxury chocolate brand celebrated by handing out…

December 11, 2013

The Beautiful and the Glammed

How and why did you decide to enter this field? I had been passionate about…

December 11, 2013

The War Within

As Moharram approaches, people across the country are on tenterhooks and praying that Ashura will…

December 9, 2013

Much Ado About Nothing

On October 28, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre was ready to face a storm. Doctors, armed…

December 8, 2013

Interview: Natasha Khalid

“It’s raining brides at Natasha Salon,” reads the caption on a stream of photographs on…

December 7, 2013

Movie Review: Gravity

The opening scene of Gravity is a staggering 17-minute long single shot in which the…

December 7, 2013

Let the Army Try its Own

The PML-N government’s decision to indict General Pervez Musharraf for treason under Article 6 of…

December 7, 2013

To Hell and Back

Between July and December 2012, a three-member team of researchers from Individualland — comprising Zulfiqar…

December 6, 2013

A Dream Has Died

We know that in personal relations, the pain of being jilted in love is hard…

December 5, 2013

Batting On a Sticky Wicket

Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is discovering the hard way that being in power could…

December 4, 2013

Karachi’s Lost Jews

A few years ago, when I started working on my book about the different communities that…

December 4, 2013

Holding Back

For anyone in search of answers into the nature of the troubled Pakistan-US relations, a…

December 4, 2013

Lost in the plot

Fatima Bhutto is a public figure. And when public figures write novels, they are often…

December 4, 2013

Deconstructing Language

Dr Shahid Siddiqui is a well-known name in the field of educational linguistics in Pakistan.…

December 3, 2013

A Woman for all Seasons

This October marked the birth centenary of Attia Hosain (1913-1998), one of the earliest women…

December 3, 2013

The Great Fall

Can all of Zardari’s horses and all of Bilawal’s men put the 46-year-old PPP together…

December 2, 2013

Fantasy World

The two-person show at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture School, titled Silver…

December 2, 2013

Remnants of the Past

Exclusive photographs from Nusrat Bhutto’s private collection that she had entrusted to Agha Feroz. Father…

December 2, 2013

The Bhutto Legacy

Agha Feroz takes us on a journey with Pakistan’s most prominent political dynasty through his…

December 1, 2013

Classic Film Review: East of Eden

Elia Kazan brought John Steinbeck’s classic novel, East of Eden, to life for the big…

December 1, 2013

Flashbacks From the Past

On a Sunday afternoon in October, I enter a building that appears too dismal to…

November 6, 2013

“In the post-Cold War period, the US has constantly won wars and lost the peace”

Is there any truth to the commonly held perception that Pakistan has a love-hate relationship…

By Newsline Admin | Newsline Special | Published 11 years ago

Exclusive photographs from Nusrat Bhutto’s private collection that she had entrusted to Agha Feroz.

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Father figure: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s father, Shah Nawaz Bhutto.

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Leader in the making: An 18-year-old ZAB in California.

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In her mother’s arms: Nusrat Bhutto cradles a 20-day-old Benazir.

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The patriarch: ZAB photographed with his children, Benazir and Murtaza.

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Happier days: A teenaged Benazir at her Clifton home.