Articles by Aniqa Atiq Khan
Sulaiman, a school teacher in Buner, lives in a pocket of Pakistan hemmed in between Mardan, Swat and Swabi, where life is village and mountain stream and the fame of a valley charming and fertile. Cl...
There is a specific flavour of panic that colours the existence of the Pakistani woman. It develops as she becomes cognizant of society’s Three Holy Ms: Money, Marriage, and Motherhood, all three fo...
On Sunday, President Donald Trump stepped in to raise the stakes of an already volatile standoff, announcing that the United States Navy would begin “BLOCKADING” the Strait of Hormuz — delivered...
Gul Plaza only announced its importance after it was gone.
As I’m writing this, I realise that the lamp on my bedside table is from there. So is the wall clock ticking opposite me, the plant sitting...
Every time I open my “For You” feed on Instagram, I’m ushered into a parallel classroom: informal, intimate, and oddly generous. Young girls and boys who look my age and live inside the same alg...
When Rano was airlifted to Islamabad on November 5, 2025, the 25-year-old Himalayan brown bear left behind more than just a confined, concrete enclosure at Karachi Zoo.
She left eight years of untre...
