Five heavily-armed gunmen crossed into Tajikistan on Wednesday and killed two border guards before dying themselves. It was the third such raid in recent weeks. Dushanbe’s border agency has publicly accused the Taliban government of failing to meet its international obligations on border security, while its demand for a formal apology from Kabul remains unanswered. […]
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Broken Harvest (Part II)
William Richard’s Trichotomy typically categorises policies into three main perspectives, which are regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive. The regulative aspects refer to the formal rules, laws, and regulations that govern the implementation and monitoring mechanism. The normative pillar encompasses the values, norms, and expectations that guide behaviour, including ethical standards and professional responsibilities. The cultural-cognitive aspect […]
Broken Harvest (Part I)
World Food Day 2025, celebrated this month with the theme “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future”, serves as a poignant reminder that agri-food systems today face extraordinary pressures from conflict and climate extremes to economic volatility and social inequality. An estimated 673 million people live with hunger, even as food waste, […]
The U-turn government taking roundabouts
It’s been almost nine months and there has been no concrete development in the country. All we have seen in this Naya Pakistan are increased prices, increased rape culture, increased control over media, increased bashings and most importantly increase in the number of broken promises. Things have surely increased but only the negatives have increased. […]