Blogger Tazeen Javed returns to the Dawn Blog for a weekly dose of satire. Waking up on a Monday morning is an ordeal in any case; waking up to ghastly news is a double whammy. Picking up the newspaper on a Sunday is easier – you can easily forego the news section and go directly to the magazine (or...

Toronto-based Taimoor Farouk shares tales from the Pakistani diaspora with Dawn.com. Canada’s largest celebration of home cooking and eating, the 17th Annual Good Food Festival & Market, starts next month near Toronto. One hopes that the two-day event will help clarify some misconceptions about...

I would feel much happier writing a piece about the disappearance of crime from our country, or perhaps the evaporation of poverty, however, no such luck for Pakistan right now. Hence, I have resorted to taking up the one thing that is fast diminishing in our neighbourhoods and beyond – footpaths. Where...

Dawn.com’s Huma Yusuf looks at the Pakistan Day awards ceremony and wonders what it means for Pakistan today. Another Pakistan Day, another awards ceremony. On Monday, President Asif Ali Zardari gathered “outstanding” Pakistanis – both military personnel and civilians – around him at the...

The first season of the Indian Premier League was a huge hit among Pakistani cricket fans. The spicy combination of Twenty20 cricket and Bollywood proved irresistible to people of all ages on both sides of the border. The negligible time difference between the two neighbours meant that like in India,...

Blogger Tazeen Javed returns to the Dawn Blog to provide a weekly dose of satire. If analyses and common sense are to be believed, the world is facing a financial mess because people spent more wealth than they created. Then they thought that if they put off payments for some time, they would just vanish...

Dawn.com’s Huma Yusuf takes a look at media coverage of Mukhtar Mai’s recent wedding. Last Sunday, as the Long March heated up and tear-gas shells and stones littered the entrance to the Lahore High Court, news broke of Mukhtar Mai’s marriage to Nasir Abbas Gabol, a police constable who...

What unraveled as a series of unfortunate events in the country, which later took the face of a revolution, as some may say, also triggered off a sad and absurd story of a bouncing cheque. As it turns out, our leaders often remember to express their appreciation and gratitude to our talented artists...

Blogger Tazeen Javed returns to the Dawn Blog to provide a weekly dose of satire. Sometime back, Newsweek named Pakistan the most dangerous place on earth. Now, the American magazine Foreign Policy has come up with its own most dangerous place. Surprisingly, it is not Pakistan. They name Somalia as...

I have always been the kind to disapprove of protests, marches, vigils and the likes. I always thought they served no purpose other than getting easy publicity. However, I have no shame in admitting that the long march has proved me wrong and has forced me to believe otherwise. The restoration of judiciary...