Sundance Film Festival kicks off with ‘Navalny’ director’s comments

Academy Award-winning documentary director Daniel Roher was back at Sundance on Thursday for the film festival’s opening day, showcasing a sharp turn in his work. Roher, whose “Navalny” scooped Best Documentary Oscar for its poignant telling of the life of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, shifted gears into fiction for “Tuner,” starring Dustin Hoffman […]

Universal Studios announces new Pokémon experience

Universal Studios Japan has announced plans for a new Pokémon-themed attraction, describing it as an immersive experience designed to bring the long-running franchise into a theme park setting. The announcement was made on January 22, with the park confirming it is developing what it called “innovative, immersive, and world-class Pokémon experiences”. According to a translated […]

Governing Karachi

Karachi continues to be one of the most unlivable cities in the world, a city that seems to be dying a death by a thousand cuts thanks to a profound failure of governance. The horrible state of the city and its public services becomes even more concerning when considering that it is also the country’s […]

HIV negligence

Medical negligence in Pakistan is often discussed in the abstract — as a system failure, a resource constraint or an unfortunate by-product of poverty. But when nearly 4,000 children in Sindh are living with HIV, many of them infected not at birth or through personal behaviour but in healthcare facilities meant to heal them, negligence ceases […]

Corporate congress

Dystopia rarely arrives by force. It builds itself incrementally, normalising each compromise until the structure is complete and resistance feels utterly futile. In a report released to coincide with the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, “Resisting the Rule of the Rich”, Oxfam notes that in 2022 nearly half of the world’s population, 48 per […]

‘Seriously embraced’ reforms of federal govt already yielding ‘fruits of action’: IMF chief

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva praised the government on Friday for “seriously” embracing reforms under its programme requirements, saying it was already yielding results. Speaking to Pakistan TV on the sidelines of the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Georgieva said: “Pakistani government has seriously embraced reforms and […]