Aminah Suhail Qureshi

The people of Pakistan have had enough; dear readers. We lost one part of our beloved country to politics as we sat silently. Even though we did not give in to terrorism, we definitely lost our peace and serenity in the name of doing more; we shed tears, venerate the killed as martyrs, but never […]

Wedlock and divorce have never been issues that pertain only to an individual and his or her nuclear family. In fact, these matters seldom cease to interest people that we collectively call our society. Because the situation of others always manages to interest aunties — mostly — and uncles — occasionally, — these figures contribute […]

Having my wrists shackled with the manacle of nationalism, I struggled not to write on this particular topic. I made a strenuous effort to resist my fingers from typing these words as I feared crossing my boundaries and defaming my country and its people. But even bacteria stabilise themselves after shifting from lag to log […]

1996. This year marks the formal inauguration of Punjab’s second largest teaching hospital and the last tertiary care hospital of Lahore to date, that is Jinnah Hospital. With a population increase from 5.4 million in 1998 to 10.4 million in 2016, only 300 beds in two increments have been added to the initial count, making […]

Despite it being a fundamental right as prescribed by the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973, a majority of this country’s population is absolutely unaware of its right to information (RTI) just as it is incognizant of its other rights. An obvious reason is the improbability of such a law existing in a country where other laws […]

My eyes were on the tardily tick-tocking clock; the long minute hand of which did not seem to move at all. It remained positioned at 12, so I decided to trace the itinerary being created by the second hand. After four revolutions or so, the minute hand moved to 1, and the clock finally read […]

“This is a national programme. However, individuals from FATA, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Balochistan, Northern Sindh and Southern Punjab are highly encouraged to apply.” In other words, though it was a national-level scholarship, its flyer had clearly missed out the most populous regions of Pakistan, namely Northern Punjab and Southern Sindh, in […]

The ways we dealt with him are not unknown to anyone. The manner in which his years of meticulous and intellectual efforts were rubbished and derogated is not hidden from anyone. The approach used by his fellow countrymen to equate all his achievements to zero just because of his religious ideology’s clashing difference with that […]

I, like the majority, was dumbfounded. My bewilderment was increasing with rapidly swinging polls. The climax, I must say, was even more flummoxing. The result was being proclaimed by many as a political earthquake, which, like any other earthquake, is being speculated to be an expensive disaster for humans. Just as a strong quake in […]

Anti-nationalists want us to imagine such a world in which humans have no identity and classification system. But wait a moment! Was this society not present when humans were denizens of caves? Or when man laid the foundations of a new institution known as family? If such a society was present at that time and […]