Rising Stars: KPK’s Kamran Ghulam eyes international debut
In a bid to unearth the domestic performers in Pakistan cricket, every week The Correspondent will be highlighting players that can serve Pakistan in...
Reddit-Trading: Wall Street confronted with massive change
Silver prices surged to an eight-year high as Reddit traders from r/WallStreetBets hopped onto the stock, having previously fueled paramount frenzy with the shares...
The satirist and the state: Stand-up comedy in Pakistan
In a country whose greatest derogatory slurs are rooted in the acts of singing and performing, artists seldom lead easy lives. Words like 'miraasi'...
A timeline of the Kashmir conflict
1846
The State of Jammu and Kashmir is created under the Treaty of Amritsar when Maharaja Gulab Singh bought the Kashmir Valley from the East...
Minds are vulgar, not rights
“Mera Jism, Meri Marzi”: Why did this phrase provoke so much abhorrence and hatred in Pakistan’s society. Perhaps the Pakistani society did not realise...
How T20 leagues have reshaped women’s cricket
Last year's ICC T20 Women World Cup was the highest viewed global tournament in the history of the women's game.
In the five years or...
Demystifying the Instrumentality of Hierarchy vis-à-vis Individual Rights
We often hear of incorporating cultural context in the debate of basic human rights. Let us look at this claim. The claim is that...
A Suitable Ploy: Hindutva’s Love Jihad morphs into a precursor for marginalisation
Published in 1993, Vikram Sethi's 'A Suitable Boy' leisurely unspooled the tangled threads of communal tension and conservatism in post-independence India as many had...
Kasur’s paedophilia nightmare
Kasur has been notoriously known for the sexual abuse of children.
It wasn’t long ago when the child pornography scandal from Kasur shocked the...
PDM confident it can topple government; history shows a different story
The Pakistan Democratic Movement - the grand alliance of opposition parties - held its first rally on Friday, declaring it a referendum against...
