No Honour By: Daily Times on July 12, 2024In our unfortunate society, the enforcers of ethical standards are so resolute in their beliefs that they overlook the hypocrisy of their family-oriented notions when becoming the law unto themselves and tearing those values to shreds. It was the bizarre sense of impunity that empowered a man in Arifwala to calmly sit beside the dead […]
Hollow Celebrations By: Daily Times on July 12, 2024Despite overwhelming evidence that a hotchpotch of defence initiatives cannot sustain a once-celebrated intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states continues to live in oblivion, popping balloons over its 75th anniversary, dropping buzzwords and giving out flickers of hope when time demands an unwavering resolve. A year after US President Joe Biden had shook hands […]
Afghan Refugees By: Daily Times on July 11, 2024It is incredibly easy to sit outside the stadium and dabble in a running commentary on the affairs of a struggling country. Not many in the international community bothered to acknowledge Pakistan’s dire constraints or the fact that it had been shouldering the baggage of Western pledges for the last four decades or how it […]
Intimate Partner Violence By: Daily Times on July 11, 2024On Wednesday, a visibly shaken and heavily bruised senior anchorperson, Ayesha Jahanzeb, knocked on the doors of a police station for protection against her husband, accusing him of repeated acts of domestic violence. As is with other high-profile cases, Haris Ali was promptly arrested and even-handed a physical remand. There remains little doubt about the […]
Line of Fire By: Daily Times on July 10, 2024On Monday, a Kenyan court concluded a long-winding battle for justice and ruled in favour of renowned journalist Arshad Sharif, assassinated by Kenyan police in 2022. Ordering the state to pay 10 million shillings as compensation, it called out, in unmincing terms, an “unlawful” and “unconstitutional” violation of Sharif’s rights. While his family still awaits […]
Temporary Relief By: Daily Times on July 10, 2024Our governments never learn from past mistakes and thus, continues their chequered journey, full of about-turns in policies and knee-jerk statements. Considering the public’s hue and cry over skyrocketing electricity tariffs, which were about to shoot through the roof (thanks to an overwhelming hike of 51 percent announced last week) the government has thought of […]
Raw Talent By: Daily Times on July 9, 2024In the year since Pakistan’s elite athlete achieved the unthinkable by scoring a first international medal in javelin throwing, Arshad Nadeem has sat on the topsy-turvy public frenzy ride far more than his share. Between being unknowingly dragged through controversial waters over a gofundme campaign announced by a rating-starved journalist and receiving undue criticism for […]
No end By: Daily Times on July 9, 2024All the king’s men and all the king’s horses could not put a broken Ukraine together again. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has been a dark cloud looming over Eastern Europe for far too long. On Monday morning, an earth-shattering blast targeted the largest children’s hospital in Kyiv, intensifying the anger and desperation […]
A Chaotic Pursuit By: Daily Times on July 8, 2024Building on the momentum of the caretaker administration, the PML(N)-led government has been creating a great noise about a way to deal with the perpetual white elephants. However, mounting debts and substance-less deliberations suggest that pressure from the IMF has, to date, failed to push the ruling elite towards a reforming agenda. According to a […]
Unrecognised Victims By: Daily Times on July 8, 2024Two suspects arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a minor boy in Mandi Bahauddin, that too, a specially-abled one, have, once again, brought to light the harsh reality of gender-based crimes against young boys, a topic often overlooked in discussions about sexual violence in our society. Although there’s little will to move beyond the taboos associated […]