News in Picture

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: In a country where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line, as reported by the World Bank, the sight of an elderly man balancing heaps of snack packets on his motorbike through the narrow…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: In a field baked under the October sun, an elderly farmer guides a pair of oxen across the soil — a sight unchanged for centuries. The cracked earth rises in thin clouds as the wooden plough carves through…

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Tharparkar: Water — the most essential ingredient of life — is under severe strain in Tharparkar, Sindh’s arid desert district. Already crippled by chronic scarcity, Thar now faces an even deadlier challenge: the…

Ishtiaq Ahmed  Bradford: I never have been very comfortable with a number of culturally accepted practices which epitomise inherent gender inequalities in our society.Let me explain the nature of my discomfort with the following real…

Amir Hamza Bajaur: The federal government of Pakistan continues to grapple with public dissatisfaction and unrest, particularly in regions sensitive to national security. In such areas, civic concerns often intersect, sometimes clash,…

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Umarkot: In the faded two-inch photograph of two-year-old Nimra, she appears peacefully asleep eyes closed as though resting in eternal silence. Death had not disfigured her innocence. It seemed even death itself had…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: In the tradition of Mohammed Ajeeb CBE , the first non-white Lord Mayor of Bradford in 1985. Sadiq Khan becoming the first Mayor of London of Pakistani origin 2016 , Zulfiqar Karim becoming the first Muslim High…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Six children huddle under a makeshift shelter, their faces caught between innocence and despair, their futures uncertain. Behind them, the mighty Indus flows on, indifferent to the suffering it has unleashed.…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: Many around the world are rightly asking: What proactive role have international institutions such as the United Nations, the Security Council, and NATO played in preventing Israel from carrying out what has…

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Umarkot: On a busy morning at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in Karachi, hundreds of patients line up for their tokens.  Children, women, and elderly men wait side by side, knowing they…