News in Picture

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: A queue forms around a hand pump. Women wait with buckets. Children hold plastic containers almost as large as themselves. An elderly woman bends patiently for her turn. There is no rush because everyone…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Five boys race down a dusty road with discarded motorcycle tyres. Their laughter fills the afternoon. Their feet barely touch the ground. For a fleeting moment, they are exactly what children should be,…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The first thing this picture shows is exhaustion. A man lies on a hard street floor under the unforgiving heat, his body finally surrendering after hours of struggle. Beside him rests his companion, a trained…

Fozia Zahoor Islamabad: There was a time when a home was not only decorated with things bought from markets. It carried the warmth of hands that created them. A fan covered with delicate crochet work and a dressing table adorned with…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The field is wide. The earth is prepared. The lines on the land show the discipline of generations that have worked with soil, seasons and uncertainty. In the middle of it stands an elderly farmer,…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: At first glance, it looks like an ordinary fan. A machine built for one simple purpose, to provide air on a hot day. But in this picture, the fan has entered a different world. It is not hanging from…

Nadia khan  Loralai: The recent acid attack on a young doctor, the alleged abduction and sexual assault of an 18-year-old student, and the killing of a nursing student reportedly by a cousin after she rejected his advances are not…

Inshal Haider Islamabad: Disasters remain one of the most pressing challenges to human security and sustainable development. Between 2000 and 2023, more than four billion people were affected by disasters, with global economic losses…

Ijaz Rehan Bajaur: Literature often recognizes dangers long before political scientists and policymakers do. Great novels do more than tell stories; they diagnose the weaknesses of societies and warn of the consequences of ignoring them.…

Mehboob Alam Islamabad: A great deal of the writings of the present century seem to be devoted to a doctrine of "easy expression. Much of the literature of this century is devoted to a teaching of "easy expression.  At the click of a…