Topic: Pakistan
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Seemab Gul on Ghost School: ‘Education is about questioning everything around us’
The director’s debut feature film offers a haunting meditation on the place of women and girls in Pakistani society
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‘We’re more akin to the 1930s’: Asad Rehman on the far-right threat to the climate
Rightwing groups are weaponising inequality against migrants, Muslims and achieving sustainability, says the Friends of the Earth head as he reflects on his life of activism
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The best novels about friendship and all its complexities
Books that do a fantastic job of exploring the pure love and tensions that can be found in friendships across all ages
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UK Asian Film Festival 2026 preview: art as a warning against indifference
Ghost School and Shadowbox, screening at this year’s festival, are two deeply affecting portraits of women navigating impossible circumstances
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Film-maker Rehana Zaman on the lands that inspire her
The artist’s latest body of work — two films examining questions of land ownership, immigration and labour — will be touring galleries across the UK and Ireland throughout the year
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Learning the dishes of my cultures gave me a taste of belonging
Being Egyptian, Irish and Pakistani, the closest I’ve ever come to feeling less ‘other’ was when I prepared meals with the women in my family
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Who is Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour leader who called for Starmer to quit?
One of Britain’s most prominent Muslim politicians, Sarwar had previously been close to the prime minister Keir Starmer
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How Muslim dance culture stretches across civilisations
In her debut book, historian Nadia Khan uncovers the vibrant, centuries-old traditions of Muslim dance, revealing a hidden history of movement and faith
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The south London chef introducing Berlin to real South Asian food
Shabnam Syed is winning over German diners with the dishes her mum and aunties made
