Triage Timeon May 23, 2020According to a policy brief of the UN, a total of 106 countries had introduced or adapted social protection and jobs programs in response to COVID-19 by April 3,2020 and 65 countries had passed the fiscal response packages equivalent to a total of US$4.8 trillion, as of March 31, 2020. Yet, the course of Pandemic […]
Are all mothers equal?on May 12, 2020Are all mothers equal? There is not a straightforward answer to this seemingly straightforward question. In a world that incessantly becomes hugely divided and disturbed both in actual and virtual spaces by the issues of emancipation and equality of women and their perceived “scary”, “immoral”, “irreligious”, and “anti-culture” outcomes it remains an undeniable fact that […]
Distancing is Healthy: Let Empathy be the New World Orderon April 1, 2020Amidst the ongoing chaos and calamities caused by the current disrespectful Pandemic and the clutter and clamor of endless varieties it necessitates an ample amount of careless risk taking, silliness, naïveté and defiance to allow oneself to pen these lines. This Pandemic is providing an adequate rationality to exercise my right of freedom of expression […]
Some incoherent thoughts on IWD 2020-I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rightson March 4, 2020The well-known march in New York in 1908, honouring the 1857 march by the sisters in the needle trades; according to a French historian and feminist activist Françoise Picq, never happened. There is another story that journalist turned Marxist politician, Clara Zetkin, as the Leader of the “Women’s Office” for the Social Democratic Party in […]
2019 A Year For Womenon 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 […]
The arroganceon December 16, 2019Motivational and inspirational confidence exhibited by leaders in any field not only allows them to undertake challenging tasks but also enables their followers to give their best performance. Confidence, however, must never be confused with arrogance. Any egotistical conduct of a leader can seriously damage emotions and sentiments of those who bear it, besides portraying […]
People with Disabilities and our Ableismon December 13, 2019Dedicated to the nerve of all People with Disabilities (PWD) Disability affects more than one billion people worldwide and the latter are regularly and repeatedly affected by the remaining7billions orso-the Abled.The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes people with disabilities as those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory […]
Happy birthday PTVon November 25, 2019A bang in electronic media in Pakistan ended PTV’s monopoly in early 2000 that was officially born on 26 November 1964, after an introduction by Syed Wajid Ali (who initiated a television project in 1961). Aslam Azher the legend was PTV’s first Managing Director, thef irst Center was in Lahore and then there was no […]
Pakistan through the mental health lenson November 16, 2019As a perpetual student of life and caring practitioner of inclusivity and diversity I always study our national policies, strategic priorities and international commitments through the gender lens first. Over the last few years, however, I have started looking at all matters that affect human lives by applying the filter of mental health. Besides reading […]
Towards an inclusive World Economic Order?on September 15, 2019Let us not forget that we are living in a world where, Telephones are becoming more pertinent than Toilets ;in 2000, only 12% of the global population had mobile phones subscriptions, and about 60% had access to basic sanitation. Currently the percentage of people with cell phone subscriptions is higher than those using sanitation services. […]