Towards peace and reconciliationThe Pakistani state apparatus should hang its head in shame. Not just because it picked up Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) members and sympathisers in the run-up to the Karachi rally. Not for forcing t...
Israeli violenceAs visual analogies go, it could not have been worse. President Trump appearing via video link at the official ceremony to commemorate his Jerusalem shuffle. While paying lip service to American commi...
Women’s mobilityThat Punjab government-led Women on Wheels (WoW) initiative is to be welcomed. As are all moves at the official level or otherwise that support women reclaiming the public space. Over the weekend, Lah...
The noxious den of corruptionFrom casting deadly aspersions on the prospect of the next elections being held at all to these being delayed for differing periods of time, there is also much speculation about their possible outcome...
Freedom of speech and its detractorsThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states that ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek...