January issue 2010

Rising Stars

January 30, 2010

Selective Justice?

About two years ago, I had a chance to meet several intelligent and educated Bangladeshis…

January 30, 2010

A Confederacy of Crooks?

As a matter of course, we expect our elected representatives to be evasive, slippery and…

January 30, 2010

Fight to the Finish

Deep inside Pakistan’s turbulent political waters, yet another major fight is building up, threatening to…

January 28, 2010

The Women’s Jamaat

In Tamil Nadu, Sherifa Khanum is challenging hardliners for ignoring the spirit of equality, charity,…

January 28, 2010

The Female Imam

Amina Wadud will never forget the ordeal she had endured in Cape Town the first…

January 28, 2010

The Gender Apartheid

Erum Afsar remembers the time when she could pray in the main hall at the…

January 26, 2010

Reporting Pakistan

Foreign correspondents can be easy to stereotype and no one did it better than journalist…

January 25, 2010

Coming into Her Own

Nimra Bucha says the word “really” a lot. Everything has an added emphasis, a passion…

January 25, 2010

Day of the Dreamer

At age 26, Yasir Sheikh is well on the path to realising all his dreams.…

January 25, 2010

Through the Viewfinder

Koel Gallery is no lightweight space. It’s played host to culture mavens, art aficionados and…

January 25, 2010

The Dynamite Kid

Umar Akmal’s phenomenal success at the international cricketing stage is quite stunning, even to die-hard…

January 25, 2010

Rising Stars

They are different ages. They have different talents. And they each have achieved different levels…

January 24, 2010

The Dumb Decade

How Maudoodi Revived Pakistani Cinema In a decade when the world fussed over slumdogs and…

January 23, 2010

Top of the Pops

A look back at the top albums of 2009 in Pakistan. Coke Studio (Season 2)…

January 23, 2010

Living in a Third Space

Migration, dislocation, forsaking nationalities yet retaining tenuous links with the motherland, the ‘living in a…

January 23, 2010

The Writers’ Pick

Renowned Pakistani authors choose their favourite reads of the past year. Mirza Athar Baig My…

January 21, 2010

Clothes Maketh the (Wo)Man

The wildly applauded Fashion Pakistan Week held in Karachi in October marked a milestone in…

January 20, 2010

The A to Z of Pakistani Politics

Politics in Pakistan can be many things: complex, frustrating, shameful, regressive . . . and…

January 17, 2010

Screening: The Battle for Pakistan

The SAMAA TV/Newsline Films production The Battle for Pakistan has been selected for Mini-INPUT, a…

January 15, 2010

Jackboots on the Ramp

‘Men in uniform’ created quite a stir in Jane Austen’s society novels. Just the news…

January 15, 2010

Get Up, Stand Up

“At every phase in history, due to its strategic importance, the Pashtun land has been…

January 14, 2010

Move Your Body

Each morning at my gym, dozens of women pour in. Without a trainer on duty,…

January 14, 2010

The Year That Was

Hope and change, the buzzwords of 2008, were in short supply in 2009. Instead, we…

January 13, 2010

Parting Ways

Remembering those with left us in 2009. January 01 Nizar Rayan Nizar Rayan acceded to…

January 13, 2010

Don’t Cry For Me, Mr Ad Man

Pakistan is not known for its spelling skills. And judging by some of the advertisments…

January 11, 2010

Editor’s Note: January 2010

It was a grisly finale to what must rank as one of Pakistan’s deadliest years.…

January 10, 2010

The Best Story of My Career

Journalists rarely look back. They are always charging ahead, in search of the next story.…

By Newsline Editorial Staff | People | Profile | Published 15 years ago

They are different ages. They have different talents. And they each have achieved different levels of success. But they all share one thing: promise.

Newsline takes a look at four of Pakistan’s rising stars.

Click on one of the four links below to continue.

Kayhan-Feroze-Qaiser Kayhan Qaiser

Olympus-73-199 Yasir Sheikh

the-dictators-wife-074 Nimra Bucha

Del308769 Umar Akmal