In Germany, if you want to be a successful woman, you need to be a man, says Hani Yousuf.

Working as the sole Pakistani on a German newspaper’s foreign editorial desk provides a journalist rare insight into why her country rarely gets a fair shake in the western media.

There can never be too many shoe stores. Even on Zamzama. For shoes are the ultimate female fantasy.

A new ‘electronic crime’ bill is so poorly drafted it may actually threaten and harm the individuals and companies it is designed to protect.

Dubbed as the “next big thing” in law by Cherie Blair, Mahnaz Malik carves a niche for herself as a lawyer – and an author.

Sugar-Coated Pill is a selection of verse by Mahmood Jamal, a poet who writes not just for the literati, but for all.

Pakistani writer, Kamila Shamsie, who has received much international acclaim, has now been awarded the 2006 Patras Bokhari Award, by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, for her latest novel, Broken Verses.

“There are only two kinds of writers, good writers and bad writers,” says writer Zulfikar Ghose.

Alaap, a Lahore-based organisation working towards the promotion of religious tolerance in the country, has printed an inter-faith calendar.