Economic realitiesPakistan appears to be scrambling around on a piecemeal treasure hunt of sorts. In July alone, the country borrowed $439 million in foreign loans in a bid to service forex requirements. And though thi...
Iran at the ICJFar from consolidating the American image of Iran as a fundamentalist state, the latter has set about teaching others important lessons in democracy. For in the same week that the country’s Parliament...
Reproductive healthThe United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) has called on the new government to put family planning at the centre of its commitment to child and maternal care. After all, Pakistan reportedly carries ou...
Fathering Pakistan’s foreign policyIt was just a few days ago that the new Foreign Minister (FM), Shah Mehmood Qureshi aggressively laid claim to taking ownership of foreign policy making. Watching him thump his fist on the dice, I so...
Enforced disappearances: how the state of Pakistan has failedOn the eve of International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 2018, there is very little — if anything — that the government of Pakistan could offer to the people of Pakistan as good news...