Superheroes, jazz, queer art: how Pakistan’s transgressive pop culture went global

A cyclist rides past a promotional hoarding banner of Pakistan-produced movie "Joyland" displaying outside a cinema in Lahore on November 16, 2022. (AFP)
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Updated 20 December 2022
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Superheroes, jazz, queer art: how Pakistan’s transgressive pop culture went global

December 20: The Guardian reported in August, Pakistan’s three censor boards cleared Saim Sadiq’s award-winning film Joyland for release. This drama is nothing new. Today, Pakistani artists are garnering international attention as they continue this legacy of confronting themselves and their society, interrogating religion, sexuality and class hierarchies. Read more I 


Source says Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman met with Islamic Emirate leader

Updated 11 January 2024
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Source says Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman met with Islamic Emirate leader

January 10: TOLOnews has reported citing a source that Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, the leader of Pakistan's Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, met with Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Islamic Emirate, Wednesday morning in Kandahar. Read more I