World Children’s Day 2018 on November 21, 2018World Children’s Day affords us an invaluable opportunity to impress upon policymakers the importance of fulfilling child rights, seriously evaluate how our children are doing in Pakistan and devise the appropriate strategies in our national context. We do so in the belief that we are investing towards our future. The theme of World Children’s Day […]
Ensuring health and human rights for ageing population on November 9, 2018The term ‘senior citizen’ commonly denotes an old and usually retired person and is usually employed to determine the eligibility for certain benefits available to the age group ranging from 60-65 years and beyond. Currently, after increasing at an unprecedented pace, the number of persons aged 60 and over is close to one billion worldwide, […]
The story of a principled judge — Justice M R Kayani remembered 55 years after his sudden death on December 8, 2017The seemingly easy task of a judge in interpreting the law has gradually become extremely complex, troublesome and even something of a torture, especially for those with a conscience in our national context. When I was born, Pakistan had only two provinces – one of them is gone. However, we still have four provinces and […]
Dina Jinnah Wadia — an obituary with some reminiscences on November 4, 2017Dina Jinnah Wadia passed away on Thursday a few months following her 98th birthday. Like her illustrious father, she may have inherited and matched her father’s self- control, deep reserve and constant struggle for secrecy concerning her private life in its entirety, leaving us gasping for some information. It is yet possible to put together […]