Shazia Hasan

Featured in Dawn Images on Sunday with top women journos, I'm in good company ... 'I am a woman, watch me report' :)

A Chinese long-haul truck driver turned his cabin into a compact living space to travel with his wife and child. Later, his wife obtained a commercial trucking license, and the couple now alternate driving on their journeys.

Fifteen years ago, Dawn’s op-ed editor asked me to write for this paper. A reporter and editor I was, but never saw myself as a columnist. But backed by the editor, the op-ed editor persuaded me. Over the past decade and a half, my editors have given me complete freedom to write on topics of my own choosing and never once quibbled with content. Where there has been pressure, they have taken it and let me get on with it. I have so enjoyed the freedom that I have never once missed a week of writing for which I am grateful to them. Profound gratitude to my readers who have not only read my submissions but have also given me invaluable feedback over the years. Finally, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my wife Carmen and our two daughters Alia and Elena for their support and patience in letting me eat away into their weekend plans, while I devoted the first half of Saturdays to writing, particularly after my good friend Cyril Almeida’s exit whose slot I moved into from my placement a day earlier. Even on holiday in remote locations such as the Pyrenees, Carmen made sure her laptop was connected to the phone and I was able send what I’d written. Like most good things (at least for me), my column too is coming to an end. As any keen reader would be able to tell, there are very few ads in the paper. Those at the helm have not only banned government ads in the paper but also coerced corporate private advertisers into staying away from it. Dawn has been made to pay a price for exercising its editorial independence. I live abroad. With the financial crunch, the cost of foreign exchange payments is a cost the paper can’t bear anymore. It breaks my heart to see Dawn facing an existential crisis. Columnists come and go. Dawn must continue to herald every morning. The writer is a former editor of Dawn. Read @abbasnasir59 's final column here: dawn.com/news/1988731 #DawnToday

Help this poor seal, Thank you ❤️

Sindh Tourism Development Corporation organises double decker bus Ride for Special Children & Senior Citizens on the occasion of 23 March, Pakistan Day. @HasanShazia @STDCOFFICIALPK @ZaraHatKay_Dawn

Dawn Book Review: Jeremy Renner's My Next Breath dawn.com/news/1964619/n… @JeremyRenner ... what a book!

Wrote about the daredevil motorcyclists we know as "shapatars", whom most of us see as a menace to road safety. I try to understand what compels these young thrill-seekers to persist with this perilous activity and whether there can be some guardrails.. dawn.com/news/1962165

Loved the Christmas decorations at Beach Luxury Hotel ... so made a short video 🌲 Do watch 🙂 youtube.com/shorts/bgkBQMq…

The Cool beans of Lyari. By @HasanShazia. 💙

EOS Book Review: Non-Muslim Cricketers of Karachi dawn.com/news/1959703/n… #Cricket #DawnMagazine #EOS #KarachiCricket

@Rainmaker1973 Black

Name one. Not pink.

... in a Barbie world. Life in plastic is fantastic! 💗

I want to mimic Fahad Mustafa as i write this (mujhe chahiye larkay) but I am looking to speak to MEN who talk to AI. It is for a documentary, and I will keep you anonymous. Pls retweet for visibility

Worried residents don't know what to do as a PMT at the corner of 15th East Street outside a school in DHA Phase 1 is on fire. @KElectricPk please help!

A PMT outside a school on 15th East Street in DHA Phase 1 is on fire. A @KElectricPk team came and saw before leaving and not returning. Area residents are very concerned and frightened. They are warning passersby to stay away.

@KElectricPk no power in DHA Phase 1 since morning. What is going on?

Revisiting the first Urban Forest of Karachi youtu.be/__x9OJNvLr4