Exactly how doomed are we?It seems that the “looming” water scarcity crisis has finally caught the country’s attention. Every television channel in Pakistan seems to be warning the country about the droughts and devastation wh...
Urban flood risk management in PakistanPakistan has historically been vulnerable to flooding, mainly in the monsoon period, when heavy rains lash large parts of the country leading to riverine floods. Heavy flooding in 1950, 1965, and 2010...
Hybrid warfareSocial media is such a big phenomenon today that is surprising to think that only a decade ago most people had not even heard of Facebook or Twitter in their life. Now it seems nothing is possible wit...
Earthquake in IndonesiaSir: The Indonesian tourist islands of Lombok and Bali were rocked by an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude, killing at least 91 people and injuring over 200. Most of the victims were Indonesian. More than 1...
Till when?Sir: it is still open season on hatred and sexual violence against little girls and young women across Pakistan. Over the past one week, we have seen uncles and brothers-in-law raping, brutally tortur...
PPP takes SindhSir: There are strong reasons behind PPP’s clean sweep in rural Sindh: First is BISP: Income support programme, which, even though it largely failed to decrease poverty, it did provide much needed bre...
Sycophancy: our national trait?Sir: History tells that inability of our leaders to call a spade a spade, harmed our country irretrievably. In the preface to Jamsheed Marker’s book, ‘Covert Point’ (page xiii), Stanley Wolpert says,...
Elections 2018: areas that need improvementThe much-hyped general elections 2018 are finally over. In its wake, it has left the data necessary for the critical assessment of the exercise. Talking of the positives, the topmost is they were held...
The elephant in the roomThe gradual erosion of social infrastructure, endemic poverty and the growing inequality have made our society violent and militarised. Pakistan is currently faced with numerous existential issues inc...
What democracy are we scared of losing?Just last month in Delhi, a family of eleven committed collective suicide. Initially, it looked as if there must be some wicked perpetrator behind this chilling mass suicide; however, not before it wa...