Damned Before TrialBy: Nouman Muhib Kakakhel on January 14, 2020Enactment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Control of Narcotics substances, 2019 overriding Federal law of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, came as a thunderbolt on Narcotics cartels operating throughout the province being more deterrent in nature due to its inclusion of unnerving penalties like death and up to life imprisonment for a smaller quantum of substance as compared […]
We’re running towards a future that might cease to existBy: Ranim Peracha on January 14, 2020From fashion, entertainment, fancy food to uncountable luxuries, we humans want it all. One can’t deny that it feels nice to pamper yourself and get loads of stuff (read: buy and consume material things that you don’t need) but ‘the heart wants what it wants’. Are we to blame though? We open our eyes, entering […]
A Dismal Tale of EnactmentsBy: Nouman Muhib Kakakhel on January 14, 20202019 was a busy year for lawmakers in Pakistan, having amended and legislated Acts of parliament and temporary laws in shape of Ordinances issued by the President under article 89 and Governors under article 128 of the Constitution of 1973. We are believed to have covered in the legal framework, more or less everything humans […]
The war that led Afghan society drained and devastatedBy: Suhail Khan Mandokhel on January 10, 2020Afghanistan’s war is defying solutions. Picture in Afghanistan is still far from rosy. Civilians are continuously suffering losses in life and property. The US is searching for a fig leaf intended to hide its thinly-veiled defeat and the Taliban have larger swathes of territory under their control. This war has left the Afghan society drained […]
Understanding Faiz’s poem in the right contextBy: Aamir Butt on January 7, 2020In the context of the recent furor in India, there is a need to give Faiz’s poem the right context for neither is it a declaration of Islamic supremacy as some are ignorantly making it be and nor is it something Islamists would like to quote if they knew what it really was about. People […]
Kashmir on a rollercoaster rideBy: Khurram Shahzad on January 4, 2020In February 2019, after a dog fight between India and Pakistan fighter jets, in which Pakistan downed two Indian air planes and captured a pilot, along the line of control (LoC) came into world spotlight as “two nuclear powers risk a war”. Pakistan maintained its position as “right to response in equal or excess force” […]
2019 A Year For WomenBy: Dr Rakhshinda Perveen on January 4, 2020Dedicated to all Pakistani women who speak up and to all those who are silenced The 365 days of 2019 like all other years too had been different for different women who form 49% of Pakistan’s total population. The word feminist beyond the idea of categorizing feminism as geek,liberal, socialist,radical etc.gained new attentions and controversies […]
Indian Military Revamp on Pakistan’s footsteps: for better or worse?By: Bilal Ahmed Shaikh on January 2, 2020The appointment of COAS in India has never been a headline like in Pakistan but this time it is coupled with many other changes that make it an important issue to discuss and world to understand. And many of these changes are in the footsteps of Pakistan Military. Current vice Chief of Indian Army Staff […]
Transitioning to a new decadeBy: Shahzeb Khan on December 30, 20192019 is coming to an end and, with it, the entire decade of the 2010s. It is now time to welcome 2020 and a new decade. Many of us are full of speculation of what the 2020s will be like. The past decade has been so eventful that it feels like a distinct period in […]
Corruption on micro level: Pakistanis need to own their nationBy: Sairam Hussain on December 26, 2019With former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Ex-President Asif Ali Zardari both facing cases regarding corruption and dishonesty, Prime Minister Imran Khan does not skip any opportunity to celebrate his stringent Anti-Corruption movement. When one thinks corruption, only ‘bad men in high places’ come to mind. But are we disguising our own shortcomings by blaming […]