Saudi women behind the wheelSir: In an unexpected move, the Saudi Kingdom has lifted the world’s last remaining ban on women driving. Now, Saudi women can be seen behind the wheel, doing their daily chores as an independent peop...
Girl’s rightsSir: I want to draw readers’ attention to the prevalent bias in our society against girls. We like to think this is a modern era where everything is hunky dory, unfortunately many people’s minds remai...
Eradicate drug cultureSir: Recently, provincial president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and candidate for the NA-268 seat, Abdul Qadir Baloch, urged the people to raise awareness regarding the use of drugs, a...
Kerfuffle at FATF?Sir: It is brutal realpolitik, not rhetoric that determines direction of inter-state relations. Till yesterday we were USA’s protégé, now we are bête noire. But, we must understand the USA’s current b...
CJP and the Larkana incidentSir: Apropos reports about an event involving Chief Justice (CJ) Saqib Nisar, who admonished an Additional District and Sessions Judge on his recent visit to Larkana District Court, where he found the...
Addressing harassmentBefore women can start pointing the fingers at men that they know outside their homes, they should start with the men inside their homes. Often, we are outraged about the things that men do but when a...
Election 2018 will not lead to political stabilityPakistani electorate will exercise its right to choose the next government in less than a month. Much has been said about the ongoing engineering or pre-poll manipulation but that’s not the entire sto...
Elections, democracy and reformsPakistan is a strange country where heads of institutions keep on expressing helplessness about non-performance of their organisations and politicians ask the voters to elect them even when they are a...
CPEC’s significance for BRI — IIIAs has been argued in previous articles of this series, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is supposed to serve as the “flagship” bilateral project under the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI)....
Black-facing and the white man’s burdenSitting with a group of women, some known others not, for a rare London meet-up in Lahore, I was surprised by the sudden turn in conversation. They were scandalised. And not in that understated way th...
Voters have the ultimate powerDuring the last few days, I witnessed a beautiful display of voter mobilisation, not to vote, but to confront those who have been voted to power. A string of social media videos have emerged from diff...