On the second day of the four-day 18th World Urdu Conference 2025, organized by the Arts Council of Pakistan, Iftikhar Arif, while expressing his views in the session titled Faiz Ahmed Faiz, also ...

This is the latest installment of a series of podcasts entitled Another Pakistan, a candid and thought-provoking series of podcast conversations brought to you by the Asia Society and the Watson ...

The Cost of National Identity,’ in Pakistan over the summer. He screened the documentary and discussed it at Cambridge Public ...

No one was more startled than my father when I came first in my class in the Matriculation exam. The poor man, in the faint hope of spurring me on to some kind of academic achievement, told me, “If ...

Hanging fire : an introduction / Salima Hashmi -- Rustled silences : the past in Pakistan's present / Ayesha Jalal -- Art in Pakistan : the first decades / Iftikhar Dadi -- Conflicts and resolution in ...

LAHORE: Salima Hashmi, the artist, scholar and activist, led an engaging discussion on the impact of culture on society at the Barood Khana, Lahore Fort. The event, organised by Aga Khan ...

Rarely do the headlines Americans read about Pakistan (political assassination, long-standing tension over nuclear arms, suspected terrorist training camps) highlight the rich cultural diversity at ...

COLOMBO: The iconic Pakistani Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz had rejected the "narrow and unilinear notion of Pakistan and always represented the unity of people across borders," says his daughter and ...

A special ‘Cafe Learning Session’ was recently held at Lahore Fort’s Barood Khan featuring renowned artist, educator, human rights activist and intellectual, Professor Salima Hashmi. The talk focused ...

Guest curator Salima Hashmi joins artists Asma Mundrawala, Imran Quereshi and Rashid Rana whose work is featured in the exhibition Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan to explore the thriving ...

NEW YORK, September 10, 2009 - In conjunction with the opening of Asia Society Museum’s Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, the first U.S. museum survey of contemporary Pakistani art, three ...