End this culture of impunityPakistani journalists and activists continue to face intimidation and violence. Worse, they have to deal with a culture of impunity that impedes justice and keeps the dissenting voices under check. Re...
Why not an egalitarian Pakistan?Even after 70 years of independence, unending, fruitless debates about the raison d’être of Pakistan’s creation are exasperating. The arguments to justify a state, purportedly created in the name of r...
Trump’s remarksSir: US President Donald Trump’s use of a four letter word to describe Haiti, El Salvador and other unspecified African countries in an Oval Office meeting with US senators to discuss immigration was...
Protect Mother EarthSir: It is sad to see the vagaries of monsoon and the tropical storms everywhere in the world now. On the one hand, climate change, drought conditions and floods are now posing threats to the countrie...
#JusticeforZainabSir: The horrific rape and murder of seven year old Zainab Ansari has shocked Pakistan, creating shockwaves in the form of riots and causing heartache and tears across the country. She disappeared whi...
Pak-US RelationsSir: The entire Pakistani nation feels betrayed over the recent statements from the US. These offensive remarks were made despite decades of cooperation. Pakistan will continue its sincere counter ter...
Of Trump’s trumping and domestic shenanigansI had decided not to comment on Trump’s latest tweet; too many were already doing so. Moreover, I had said my bit. No point in repeating it ad infinitum. Yet many others are of the opposite persuasion...
Cities for childrenThe New Urban Agenda, to which Pakistan is a signatory, ensures a safe urban environment “without fear of violence and intimidation, taking into consideration that women and girls, and children and yo...
Imran Khan weds again?Imran Khan is a hero and heroes can do no wrong. He has decided to marry again. Marriage is obviously his personal decision and a private matter but he is a public figure. Public figures in Pakistan h...
Who is responsible for Kasur?The brutal rape and murder of an eight year old girl in Kasur is a tragedy of its own kind. While tragedies are often rated based on the number of casualties, sometimes the death of a single human can...