Hot Takes, Chilling Truths

Why can a state, rich in history, not participate in an artistic event with the same rigour as its neighbour?

Certainly not. What he should abandon is the quest to catapult himself into an early election at any cost.

With a war waging within and beyond our borders, the best we could do to preserve national security is ban push-ups?

Quetta bleeds but our newsfeeds didn’t go black, conversations didn’t change and our plans weren’t disrupted at all.

We should support Ms Hawkins’ right to wear hijab, but not the anti-progressive symbolism of her gesture.

The word colony symbolises the weakening in power of a country to make sovereign decisions for itself.

Skiptrace does exactly what you’d expect it to do, offering goofy gags instead of brains for some escapist fun.

This boy has an old world Hollywood charm to him, but hopefully it wasn’t just trick photography.

Countless punches of hate are blown daily in Pakistan, and most of the blows have been legitimised by the law itself.

The snoozing border guards jumped at my passport and stood in awe of my “perceived defiance” of Salafi Islamic values.