Monitoring sermonsThe Punjab government is reportedly all set to regulate Friday sermons in a bid to maintain interfaith harmony. This is both a timely and welcome move. Though it must be noted that steps towards this...
Conflict resolutionThe PPP has done the needful. For over the weekend it intervened to have the notification withdrawn barring Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) Chairman Manzoor Pashteen from entering Sindh for a period of...
Hungary’s ‘slavery law’Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is planning to introduce amendments to existing labour legislation. Yet even before lawmakers have had a chance to vote on these later in the week — workers and t...
Riyasat-e-Medina?What had led to the partition of India has nuanced reasoning and to put the long story short, Jinnah had wanted a consociational Indian state where the Muslim minority would have an effective share in...
CPEC and ECO countriesDr Linden was a Dutch social scientist who carried out extensive research on Karachi’s low income settlements and produced several research papers on urban planning. His work presented the transformat...