Building fencesFences, it seems, don’t always build bridges. This is something that Pakistan already knows. Nevertheless, last year saw us begin constructing a security barrier along our 2,611-kilometre-long border...
Oxfam’s unpardonable cover-upNearly eight years after it raised some £60 million for relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti — the Oxfam brand today stands torn to shreds. Whether or not it can recover remains to be seen. Tho...
Banning ‘Pad Man’Pakistan is a hard country for women. Long have the men here preferred to see and not hear them. But now it seems that listening to their stories — even if told by a man — is too much for those sensit...
CPEC: beware of thievesThe new-found Pakistan-China friendship faces multiple pressing challenges; some stem from the geo-political contest in the region, and others from an array of socio-political factors in both countrie...