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 […]
Disney has released the official trailer for the return of The Muppet Show, marking a major revival of the iconic franchise nearly five decades after its original debut. The special event is set to premiere on February 4, 2026, airing on ABC and streaming globally on Disney+. The upcoming production brings Kermit the Frog, Miss […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pakistan’s back in the spotlight. This time, a top official says the country’s almost ready to cut its reliance on the IMF. It’s a gutsy thing to say, and everyone’s got an opinion. The IMF isn’t new to Pakistan — far from it. For years, its loans have helped the country dodge some ugly crises, but […]
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 […]
“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” I could not resist borrowing this phrase from the Canadian PM Mark Carney’s scintillating speech at Davos when wondering if the fledgling federation of Pakistan also currently lives within a lie. Evidently, multiple policy paradoxes and […]
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced a rally from Peshawar to Mardan for Saturday as part of its ongoing street movement, with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi set to lead the procession. According to sources within the party, the rally will begin on GT Road from Jhagra Stop in Peshawar and proceed towards Mardan. PTI’s […]
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 […]