Stories by Saba Karim Khan

Cycle of shame

Gossip can be a weapon to ostracise people...

Published 22 Oct, 2022 07:26am

‘Saving’ mission

Stereotypes define the West’s mission to save Afghan women.

Published 31 Aug, 2021 07:37am

‘Am I next?’

Floyd’s plea became a metaphor for the condition of minorities.

Published 09 Jul, 2020 06:55am

Pink tax

Working women are straining under the pressure to do it all.

Published 28 May, 2020 07:38am

Taj Mahal 1989 is a classic example of how in a TV series, less can often be more

Depicting a pre-Tinder age, the series traces the lives of multiple characters who believe in different notions of love

Published 26 May, 2020 10:11am

Limitations of human control: How Covid-19 has paralysed life in Dubai

The winds of Covid-19 blowing across the world have changed the face of Dubai as well.

Updated 05 Apr, 2020 09:26am

Eulogy versus résumé

Our social lives are dictated by quantifiable milestones.

Published 24 Feb, 2020 07:04am

It's time to see our daughters as humans and not as 'sealed packs' before marriage

Women face greater risks from rape and domestic abuse than from malaria, cancer, war and traffic accidents collectively.

Updated 23 Jan, 2020 01:07pm

FICTION: CHRONICLES OF A GENIUS FORETOLD

An astonishingly epic debut novel is a masterful portrait of a country as well as a fitting epitaph for its gone-too

Published 29 Dec, 2019 07:16am

The ‘second shift’

Women blame themselves for not advancing as fast as men.

Published 28 Oct, 2019 06:49am

Ticking time bomb

Mental health problems are not imagined maladies.

Published 15 Sep, 2019 06:59am

It's time to talk about women being shamed for making the first move

By suppressing women’s choices, we are closing a window of seeking love in a world rapidly filling with hate.

Published 13 Sep, 2019 08:30am

Academic arms race

One must stand in line before sunrise to collect admission tokens.

Updated 09 Jun, 2019 07:13am

Unequal responses

There is an obvious gap in global media reporting.

Updated 16 Apr, 2015 03:19am

Worse than death

A LITRE of acid in Pakistan costs less than a bottle of water in the US. In less than one dollar, it has the power ...

Published 10 Jul, 2014 01:06am

Pariahs on the streets

Street children continue to be ignored.

Published 01 May, 2014 06:33am

No fear of accountability

THE Victorian chimney sweep in Britain, the first industrial nation, was once an even bigger symbol of inhumanity than the bonded child labourer and sex-trafficked women of Pakistan and India today.

Published 04 Jan, 2013 12:10am

The wages of pride

THERE are moments when being Pakistani, one feels the nation has made remarkable headway — from technology to travel to nuclear energy. And then there is the vital question of humanity and where we rank

Published 26 Sep, 2012 08:00pm

Between law and practice

ENTER the second decade of the 21st century and one continues to speculate over the socially constructed notion of aspirational gender parity, which has existed across various cultures and societies.

Published 13 Sep, 2012 12:20am