Mukhtar Husain

Sep 8, 2024 | dawn.com | Mukhtar Husain |Abbas Nasir |Zoya Anwer |Muhammad Amir Rana

The Fold: The National Pavilion of Pakistan 16th International Architecture ExhibitionLa Biennale di Venezia 2018Edited by Durreshahwar AlviUshba Publishing InternationalISBN: 978-969-9154-57-7119pp. When Pakistan’s creative minds step on to the global stage and succeed, it instils a shared sense of pride among the nation’s people.

Jul 6, 2024 | dawn.com | Mukhtar Husain |Muhammad Amir Rana

My friend Arshad Jamil is a mechanical engineer who lives in the US and is in his mid-eighties. He visits Pakistan regularly and offers his expert advice to several universities on an honorary/voluntary basis. Although he lives abroad, this engagement is his form of payback for the many opportunities this country has provided him over the years in the past.

Dec 23, 2023 | dawn.com | Mukhtar Husain

I used to work on the 11th floor of a 15-storey office building off M.T. Khan Road in Karachi. Each morning while going up, I shuddered to think what would happen to me, and hundreds of other people working there, in case of a fire, and how many of us would be able to come out of the building safely in such an emergency. Luckily, no such event took place during the 15 years I worked there, up to 1995. However, later, this building had two fires.

Oct 28, 2023 | thenews.com.pk | Mukhtar Husain

etting out at 9am from Chicago and heading eastward to Columbus, Indiana, we drive past hundreds of glitzy tall buildings along Lake Shore Drive before passing by a scattering of small industrial and repair facilities, through corn fields and then across a gigantic wind farm stretching for twenty or thirty miles. To tell the truth, we had never heard of Columbus, IN, until my friend suggested it for an overnight visit during our short stay at their place in Chicago.