Tiger force vs Doctors, who’s more important for federal govt.?By: Noor ul Ain Ali on April 3, 2020PM Imran announced that the Tiger Force will distribute food and other necessities among the downtrodden people. The youth force will also offer guidance to the people of Pakistan about symptoms of the virus and instruct them about quarantining and self-isolation. It is a great idea to mobilize youth and providing platforms to them. However, […]
To the Nation, from a Young DoctorBy: Wajeeha Zaidi on March 27, 2020At a private hospital, in the good part of town, we are given strict instructions to limit our time with inpatients and their attendants. I’m upstairs in the wards, but as the hospital is a public place, you never know where the person standing 2 feet from you has been. So it’s better to limit […]
Coronavirus and the changing dynamics of social spaces in PakistanBy: Zulfiqar Ali and Fahd Zulfiqar on March 23, 2020A few pertinent questions sprang up our minds when we received an email last week about the postponement of a local conference our paper had got accepted for. The conference was supposed to be held in mid-April this year. The reason, without any guess, is the global outbreak of deadly coronavirus. In order to minimize […]
The world and CoronavirusBy: Mehr Tarar on March 22, 2020In 2020 it is one of the worst humanitarian crises of the world that grapples with man-made and natural tragedies of unimaginable proportions in many of its parts. The continuing effects of the five-year-old Yemen war are so huge their description doesn’t need any scary background music and images in slow-mo to encapsulate its inhuman […]
Before dying let’s confessBy: Kaniz Fatima on March 18, 2020While writing this piece, I have no idea regarding my continued existence amidst the pandemic of corona and its virulent implications upon humanity. Readers may assume it as highly emotional and disappointing, however, before dying let us admit what we have achieved so far or what our future generations, those who survived, would remember and […]
Pakistan’s Political HoroscopeBy: Astrologer Muhammad Ali Zanjani on March 14, 2020In the horoscope of the nation, Aries lagna was rising. The lagna lord in the case of Pakistan is Mars which happens to be placed in the 3rd house and 2nd bhava. This placement suggests that rulers of Pakistan has strong determination and will power. However, placement of Mars in the same house has created […]
Education System and Education Philosophy: The Twins we miss in misery By: Muhammad Jahangir Kakar on March 13, 2020Is it the cause of politics alone which has effected into rendering us a bunch of reactionary people with the precipitous societal breakdown and eroding intellectual servitude or do we need to really look out for some other adversaries, too? The story of civilized and developed nations is not one scripted in solemn lines of […]
Why Aurat Marches are the Need of the HourBy: Vardah Shahjehan on March 10, 2020The ever-broached concept of feminism took a new turn with the onset of Aurat March in Pakistan, which gained the contentious status ever since it made the first piece of news in 2018. The collective of ‘Hum Auratien’, Aurat March refers to a well-thought-out and peaceful protests across the country whose cardinal motif was centered around […]
A frustated nation and its miseriesBy: Kaniz Fatima on March 10, 2020In the praise of idle man, Bertrand Russel rightly perceived how our society encourages modes of earning and discourages modes of consumption. Just have a birds’ eye view of our society, everybody is in struggle irrespective of class, gender or race; in the struggle of establishing his say, defining his sphere of influence and subjugating […]
How misogyny is creeping into our mainstream Media?By: Muhammad Ishaq Rasheed on March 10, 2020For quite some time now, the numbers of feminists have been increasing in our society. This was a positive development in the decade of horror and violence that our people went through. That’s why whenever some horrific or terrible thing happened to the Woman; the number of sane voices supporting the victim kept rising. It […]