Culture
Trend of over 99,000 tweets appears to have been manufactured by TLP
#WeStandWith_MuftiMuneeb: An organic Twitter hashtag or a creation of coordinated TLP support? We analysed twitter data to find out.
By Asad Pabani
Alchemy in a Pakistani classroom
As authoritarian and neoliberal logics undermine universities, students remain their saving grace.
By Nudrat Kamal
Promising Sex, Delivering Adverts
How are an entrepreneur from Sargodha, developers from India, sexual frustration, cybersex pages, advertising revenue and an impersonation scam related to each other?
By Umer Zaib Khan
Bad Doctors by the Dozen
There are over 600,000 non-registered medical practitioners in the country. They are distributing ‘medicines’ to patients without being answerable to anyone.
By Shabana Mahfooz
Silencing journalists, one tweet at a time
Who began #ArrestAntiPakJournalists on Twitter? What did they hope to achieve?
By Annam Lodhi
Can the Pakistani job market afford graduates?
After a lifetime of investment, can most graduates today afford basic expenses such as rent, transport and food?
By Natasha Japanwala
What Digital Media ‘Gets Away’ With
Whether its reports about aliens or sex, why is it that digital media appears keener to take risks than print media?
By Maham Javaid