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A practical chicken karahi for home cooks, built around browning chicken, cooking tomatoes down properly and finishing with ginger, chilli and coriander rather than turning the pan into gravy.
Hassan Raza · 27 Oct 2026
The Lahore–Islamabad motorway is straightforward when the car, fuel, toll payment and family stops are sorted before departure. Weather and closures still deserve a same-day check.
Mehreen Ali · 27 Oct 2026
An overnight arrival goes better when the first hour is already decided: documents together, pickup confirmed, offline contacts saved and the first morning deliberately left quiet.
Mehreen Ali · 25 Oct 2026
Seekh kebab needs a mixture that clings to the skewer without being worked into rubber. Keep onion dry, mince cold and shaping pressure firm but brief.
Hassan Raza · 12 Oct 2026
The useful aloo gosht question is timing: tenderise the meat first, bhuno the masala, then give potatoes enough time to soften without dissolving into the shorba.
Hassan Raza · 8 Oct 2026
Nihari rewards patience more than complexity. This home guide focuses on browning, slow tenderness, lump-free flour thickening and the ginger-lemon garnish that keeps a rich bowl alive.
Hassan Raza · 6 Oct 2026
Lahore Fort is not one palace designed at one moment. Its surviving monuments record changes in Mughal architecture from Akbar through Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
Bilal Ahmed · 5 Oct 2026
On polluted days in Lahore and other cities, the useful fitness skill is knowing when to change the route, time or session. AQI is a decision aid, not a badge of toughness.
Sara Malik · 5 Oct 2026
How to buy a ticket, pick a stand, and last a Lahore match day at Gaddafi Stadium without treating the ground as a gym or a film set.
Imran Sheikh · 18 Sep 2026
What cricket nets teach about timing, decisions, and safety that gym mirrors cannot—and how to use both rooms without confusing them.
Imran Sheikh · 31 Aug 2026
An essay on care that already exists in Pakistani life—prayer, walking, sleep, food, boundaries with phones—without buying a new vocabulary of wellness products.
Sara Malik · 13 Aug 2026
Sunscreen that exists in this market, a cleanser that does not strip, and the end of treating fairness as a product category we will play along with.
Nadia Shah · 10 Aug 2026
Not the launch party: how to recognise Karachi and Lahore restaurants built for return visits—light, repetition, calm bills.
Hassan Raza · 4 Aug 2026
Kadak, doodh patti and cutting tea: how to order and brew Karachi chai without treating leaf quality as a brand personality.
Hassan Raza · 28 Jul 2026
Celebrity feeds leak onto Zamzama. What copies is a white kurta and restraint. What does not is a red-carpet co-ord on a bike.
Ayesha Khan · 28 Jul 2026
Fashion week is theatre and research: how to tell which Pakistani runway looks can walk a real street—and which only live on a phone.
Ayesha Khan · 21 Jul 2026
Design for the Friday night arrival: working AC, towels in rotation, a bed that is not storage—and honesty when the only bed is a sofa.
Rabia Kamal · 26 Jun 2026
A drama that trusts silence, a gallery night in Lahore, and the pop song that has been living in every car since March.
Bilal Ahmed · 20 Jun 2026