Karachi’s theatre scene is alive with energy and reflection this season. From a heartfelt tribute to Zia Mohyeddin’s indelible legacy to innovative Shakespeare adaptations and multi-genre productions at the Awami Theatre Festival, the city’s stages are striking a delicate balance between experimentation and crowd-pleasing entertainment.
Actor Hira Tareen talks about why she lauched HIRU, a conscious beauty label as well as her reasons for playing complicated female characters across television dramas and films.
For three days, Lahore looked up again. And in doing so, it confronted its past, its politics and its appetite for joy.
With 2026 shaping up to be a strong year for Pakistani writing, new novels are emerging and engaging with history, language, power, memory and intimacy in powerful fashion. From literary heavyweights returning with major releases to genre-driven fiction that interrogates culture and ownership, these books are already finding their way onto must-read lists. Think you are keeping up with the latest wave of Pakistani fiction? Let’s find out.
As Pakistan Idol moved into Episodes 31 and 32, you could feel the shift straight away. Strong vocals were no longer enough. The show wanted meaning. It wanted awareness.
Karachi’s cultural life over the first two weeks of February unfolded across strikingly different industries within pop culture, yet it asked the same basic questions. Who is art for? How does it last? What keeps it alive? You saw it in a Ghalib tribute at the Arts Council, in conversations on storytelling at the Karachi Literature Festival, in music performances at NAPA and in Spotify’s latest growth figures.
Across Episodes 29 to 30, Pakistan Idol quietly found its footing. What started as a simple trip down memory lane turned into something much more interesting, a real conversation about how we remember our musical past.
At a moment when people are questioning what major cultural institutions stand for, the Grammys ’26 became a mirror for not just the Recording Academy but the world outside of it. It was messy, political, ambitious and unpredictable. In other words, it felt real.
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