Culture – Soch Writing

Trend of over 99,000 tweets appears to have been manufactured by TLP

Asad Pabani — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:34:30 +0000

On 14 April, after weeks of tension between the government and the ulema over whether mosques should be shut down during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, the Chairperson of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee, Mufti Muneeb ur Rahman, broke decisively from the government stance. The provincial governments had previously issued notifications that had, in effect, banned congregational prayers; and […]

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Alchemy in a Pakistani classroom

Nudrat Kamal — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:01:59 +0000

As authoritarian and neoliberal logics undermine universities, students remain their saving grace.

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Promising Sex, Delivering Adverts

Umer Zaib Khan — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 02:19:11 +0000

How are an entrepreneur from Sargodha, developers from India, sexual frustration, cybersex pages, advertising revenue and an impersonation scam related to each other?

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Bad Doctors by the Dozen

Shabana Mahfooz — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:39:29 +0000

There are over 600,000 non-registered medical practitioners in the country. They are distributing ‘medicines’ to patients without being answerable to anyone.

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Silencing journalists, one tweet at a time

Annam Lodhi — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:17:12 +0000

Who began #ArrestAntiPakJournalists on Twitter? What did they hope to achieve?

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Can the Pakistani job market afford graduates?

Natasha Japanwala — Wed, 29 May 2019 06:00:53 +0000

After a lifetime of investment, can most graduates today afford basic expenses such as rent, transport and food?

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What Digital Media ‘Gets Away’ With

Maham Javaid — Wed, 29 May 2019 04:00:39 +0000

Whether its reports about aliens or sex, why is it that digital media appears keener to take risks than print media?

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