by Shaheryar Popalzai | Oct 15, 2014 | Data
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is all set to address a public gathering in Karachi on October 18 and party leaders, chapters and divisions have launched a citywide promotional campaign for the jalsa. Billboards have popped up across...
by Shaheryar Popalzai | May 17, 2014 | Data
Geo TV has been at the receiving end of multiple Twitter campaigns after the attack on Hamid Mir, a boycott by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and most recently after Mubasher Lucman aired clips from a Geo morning show, stating that the channel had blasphemed....
by Shaheryar Popalzai | May 14, 2014 | Music
Here it is. Underground Chaos for all of you who missed the compilation or weren’t around back then. Most of these bands don’t exist now and some have changed their sound. But this is a tiny piece of Pakistan’s underground metal history. We were...
by Shaheryar Popalzai | Apr 27, 2014 | Data
Note: Mining for #SolidarityWithPakArmy and #LoveISI stopped on April 27, 2014 at 2pm Twitter hashtags last week mostly focused on targeting Geo for the statements the channel ran about the military and the chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency after...
by Shaheryar Popalzai | Apr 24, 2014 | Data
The #BanGeo hashtag had first surfaced in October/November, 2013 after Mubasher Lucman (yes, the anchor who ran a planted show with Malik Riaz in June, 2012) accused Jang and Geo of being involved in an anti-ISI and anti-Bol campaign. Just to show you how organized...
by Shaheryar Popalzai | Mar 3, 2014 | Multimedia
A day at the beach in Karachi from Shaheryar Popalzai on Vimeo. Watch this in...
by Shaheryar Popalzai | Jul 14, 2013 | Music, Print, The Express Tribune, Uncategorized
The greatest of love affairs are inexplicable obsessions. In Naushad Ali Khan’s case the object of his undivided attentions is the LP (Long Play), or 33rpm microgroove vinyl record. He is prepared to go to the ends of the earth for it. Once, he picked up his...
by Shaheryar Popalzai | Nov 18, 2012 | Print, The Express Tribune
Grant Morrison Grant Morrison is a madman! Yes, I said it! The Scottish writer is, hands down, one of the greatest comic book writers this planet will ever see. Morrison’s work is heavy; don’t expect a walk in the park when you open that copy of Doom...
by Shaheryar Popalzai | Mar 4, 2012 | From the vault
As promised, here are a few pictures from pre-partition India. There are a lot more pictures, unfortunately I didn’t have enough time today to scan/photograph all of them and spent most of the day sorting and captioning them (will try have them up by next week)....
by Shaheryar Popalzai | Feb 13, 2012 | Print, The Express Tribune
If God exists, why do good people suffer? Did Man create God or did God create Man? Can suffering eradicate, or strengthen faith? Questions like these were raised at the book launch session of The Terror of God: Attar, Job and the Metaphysical Revolt by Islamic...
