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Continue reading →: Pakistani Novelist Faiqa Mansab Just Landed a Major European Book Deal!In a moment that feels both celebratory and pretty darn awesome, Pakistani novelist Faiqa Mansab has secured a significant international milestone: the Italian rights to her novel The Sufi Storyteller have been acquired by Newton Compton Editori, one of Italy’s most widely recognized publishing houses. Founded in Rome in 1969,…
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Continue reading →: She Runs Pakistan’s Coolest Digital Archive — And It’s Packed With Weird, Wonderful FolkloreEach day, Komal Salman dives into decades-old posters, handwritten letters, and fragments of oral history, piecing together stories that might otherwise be lost. Her digital ventures — Folkloristan and its sister project, Ajaibghar — are more than archives; they’re portals into Pakistan’s cultural soul, capturing folklore, design, and traditions in…
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Continue reading →: Natasha Humera Ejaz And Uzair Jaswal Just Dropped A New TrackLate this month, Natasha Humera Ejaz returned with I’m Sorry, a release that feels less like a standalone drop and more like a quiet checkpoint in a much larger artistic journey. The song doesn’t announce itself loudly. It arrives with intent, then lets Natasha’s presence do the rest. If you’ve…
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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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