Hammad Sarfraz

1 week ago | tribune.com.pk | Nabil Tahir |Hammad Sarfraz

By HAMMAD SARFRAZ | PUBLISHED June 15, 2025 KARACHI: On the political stage of Donald Trump's ever-expanding theatre, the Elon Musk affair began like a swaggering bromance destined for longevity — two outsider moguls, both mythmakers in their own right, momentarily aligned in ambition and spectacle. But as with so many Trumpian plots, it ended not with grace or even drama, but with the pettiness of a playground spat.

1 month ago | tribune.com.pk | Nabil Tahir |Hammad Sarfraz

By HAMMAD SARFRAZ | PUBLISHED May 25, 2025 KARACHI: From the parched streets of Jacobabad to the sprawling heat islands of Karachi, Pakistan is confronting a merciless new reality. Each year, the heatwave season creeps earlier into the calendar, stretches longer, and scorches harder. In 2025, temperatures soared to devastating heights — Shaheed Benazirabad, formerly known as Nawabshah, sweltered at 50°C, a blistering 8.5 degrees above the seasonal norm.

1 month ago | tribune.com.pk | Nabil Tahir |Naveed Hussain |Hammad Sarfraz

By Naveed Hussain/HAMMAD SARFRAZ | PUBLISHED May 18, 2025 KARACHI: Pakistan and India have only just stepped back from the brink of an all-out war, following a fierce exchange sparked by the brutal rampage in Pahalgam, in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) — a tragedy New Delhi was quick to lay at Islamabad’s door.

1 month ago | tribune.com.pk | Nabil Tahir |Hammad Sarfraz

By HAMMAD SARFRAZ | PUBLISHED May 18, 2025 KARACHI: When censorship becomes algorithmic and crosses boundaries, it stops being a domestic affair. Following India’s sweeping digital clampdown in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack and the unprovoked military operation against Pakistan, global responses have ranged from hushed diplomacy to sharp criticism of the misadventure that brought the two nuclear rivals to the precipice of all-out war.

2 months ago | tribune.com.pk | Nabil Tahir |Hammad Sarfraz

By HAMMAD SARFRAZ | PUBLISHED April 27, 2025 KARACHI: As Donald Trump nears the 100th day of his second presidency, America holds its breath — a nation once hailed as a shining city upon a hill by Ronald Reagan, whose portrait now watches from the walls of the Oval Office, is suspended in the cold, relentless machinery of mass deportations and institutionalized fear.