Maternal Health and Misogyny on July 1, 2019Despite the intellectual agreement on the importance of women’s role in society, one does not see them at an elevated position in Pakistan. Many still believe the main role of women in our society is to give birth to our next generation and cherish it. Anything beyond that is considered too radical, at least in […]
What to do about street children on April 20, 2019The International Street Children’s Day was observed on April 12 to highlight the problems faced by these children and to help making strategies to address these problems. While there are no official statistics in Pakistan, the number of street children has been estimated in a 2015 report of the SPARC as 1.5 million. This figure […]
Going beyond the photographs of stunted brain cells on April 13, 2019The first speech of Prime Minister Imran Khan took many unexpected turns, and one of them was when he showed the photographs of stunted brain cells. Since then stunting has become a buzz word, and a lot of people are quoting the rate of stunting in the country to shame a political opponent. Many people […]
The deal breaker for the Golan Heights on March 28, 2019World War I was called the war to end all wars, but it became the mother of all conflicts including the Palestinian Question. The current US president Donald Trump, like all his predecessors, has decided to solve this issue by producing a plan he calls ‘the deal of the century’. Mr Trump who propagates himself […]