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Continue reading →: From Pakistan to Austria: Inside Mohsin Shafi’s Landmark Museum ExhibitionAs it enters its final weeks at Kunstmeile Krems (a major museum and cultural district in Austria known for its cluster of contemporary art institutions) Mohsin Shafi’s six-month exhibition feels less like a culmination and more like a quiet reckoning…a moment that asks not only to be seen, but to…
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Continue reading →: Mental Health In Pakistan: She’s Building What Her Sister Never HadThere are some stories that resist easy telling. Not because they lack clarity, but because they carry a weight that language struggles to hold. Stories of grief, especially the kind shaped by silence, guilt, and unanswered questions, rarely arrive neatly. They come in fragments, in memories replayed, in conversations revisited,…
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Continue reading →: The Mountains Of Gilgit-Baltistan Are Covered In 2,000 Years Of Buddhist HistoryBy Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro Nowhere else can such a large number of Buddhist rock carvings be found as in Gilgit-Baltistan. These carvings are primarily located along the Indus River and its various tributaries. Historically, it served as a route connecting the lower Indus Valley to the upper Indus Valley, facilitating…
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Continue reading →: Arooj Aftab Joins Beck, Oasis And Arctic Monkeys To Support Children Affected By WarWhen Arooj Aftab won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Global Music Performance for her song Mohabbat, she didn’t just secure a personal milestone — she expanded the global imagination of what Pakistani music could sound like on the world stage. Known for her haunting, genre-defying sound that blends classical…
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Continue reading →: The Designer Proving Pakistani Fashion Deserves The World’s Biggest RunwaysBy Mehr F. Husain There are dresses and then there are diplomatic moments stitched into history. In 1996, when Rizwan Beyg designed for the late Princess Diana, it was more than a couture commission. It was a quiet but powerful fashion bridge between Pakistan and Britain, a moment when craftsmanship…
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Continue reading →: A Concert Producer’s Second Life In The Mountains Of Gilgit-BaltistanWhy Raania Durrani walked away from urban applause and chose a slower, quieter life running her candlelit kitchen in Hunza. For years, Raania Durrani was a quiet force in Pakistan’s live music revival. As the co-founder of Salt Arts, she curated and produced intimate ticketed concerts at a time when…
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Continue reading →: Three Brothers, A 100-Year-Old Studio And A Mission To Rethink ArchitectureIn Lahore’s historic Donald Town, a building from 1910 still hums with life, a rare survivor of a district once designed with a clear urban logic, where showrooms and workshops occupied the ground floor and residences for craftsmen and artists rose above. Here, allied crafts coexisted as a collective practice,…
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Continue reading →: She Walked Into Rooms Where No One Took Her Seriously…Then Built Pakistan’s First Breast Health AppThere’s something quite radical about the younger generation. Gen Z is not waiting for permission, nor are they content with performative awareness. They are observant, systems-literate, and deeply conscious of inequality. They grew up online, but they are building offline impact. They ask difficult questions about access, equity, and accountability,…
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Continue reading →: From Lahore To London Shop Windows – A Pakistani Illustrator’s Full-Circle MomentThis week, Hazem Asif takes us on a deeply personal journey from a 90s childhood filled with cartoons and coloured pencils to becoming an internationally published illustrator. In this piece, he writes about nostalgia, setbacks, reinvention, and what it truly means to become the hero of your own story… By…
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Continue reading →: The Rooftops, The Kites, The ‘Bo Kata’ – Lahore’s Most Joyful ComebackBy Usama Malick The onset of Basant in the majestic city of Lahore heralded the approach of the spring season. Before flowers could add to the beauty of the orchards, gardens and lawns, kites of countless hues and shapes adorned the vast ceiling of Lahore’s earth. Three days, from the…
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