When Seemab Gul‘s feature debut was cancelled twice last year, the British-Pakistani filmmaker made a bold decision: write and produce her own project in a matter of months. That gamble paid off with ...
“You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbours.” External affairs minister S Jaishankar issued a stern warning to Pakistan at the United Nations in 2022. Three ...
Pakistan’s crises rarely come as surprises anymore. A bombing, political upheaval, economic scare or diplomatic rupture, each seems sudden, yet for many Pakistanis, the sequence felt uncomfortably ...
In 2022, when Britain-based Pakistani indie filmmaker Seemab Gul was covering the floods across Pakistan, she came across ‘ghost schools’ in Sindh and Balochistan. A chink in Pakistan’s armour, ‘ghost ...