Fawad Kaiser

Recognising the scourge of domestic violence has little to do with the central debate feminists and academics would have about whether better policing is the best way to stop domestic violence. Domestic violence is still a severely under-reported crime and some critics say arrest policies have exacerbated this problem. These policies require police officers responding […]

What is the regional strategy of today’s Pakistan? Conflicts presently standing in the changing regional apparatus are very worrying. The strains are making themselves felt clearly. A multitude of pressures and instabilities threatens to shred the political map of Pakistan and regional countries. A toxic brew of growing terrorism, rising insecurity, militant insurgency, gas pipeline […]

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is an autonomous and constitutionally established federal institution responsible for building efforts against corruption and preparing critical national economic intelligence. Despite coming into force, NAB has failed to specifically identify culprits and hold corrupt people accountable. Apart from the stage show of politically exposing such persons who unabashedly continue to […]

“Order! Order!” Rarely does this vocal stamping of the foot succeed in restoring courtroom lawyers to reasoned debate for long. In the same way, foreign policy analysts have been pleading for something they call “world order”. In a world where so many challenges transcend borders: threats to the stability of the global economy, climate change, […]

Facebook is changing the rules and regimes of visibility on social media. People create profiles on social network sites and Twitter accounts against the background of an audience. It is worrying that quite a few of us are either willingly or unwittingly giving up some of our own personal information. Interpersonal social media surveillance warrants […]

Medicine is one of the key professions wherein life and death decisions are made fairly regularly. Training to be a doctor is both expensive and essential. Social, political and economic factors often determine how healthcare is provided and how it is delivered. Training for doctors requires careful attention, as in these days of globalisation the […]

I am sad to have to write about the death of a 10-month-old girl, Bisma, who died due to complications from measles when her father failed to reach the hospital in time because of the tight security cordon for Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. No doubt, the loss to the family cannot be […]

Is cheating in sports a simple black and white discussion? Throughout sporting history, cheating has existed in every sport in some way, shape or form, which has caused whatever sports it is to become damaged, sometimes permanently. There are many different ways to cheat in cricket such as ball tempering, placing bets on teams, ball […]

Terrorism has once again been the major topic in public discourse in recent weeks. One year ago, 144 lives were lost in Peshawar’s Army Public School (APS) massacre of December 16, 2014, the deadliest attack in Pakistan’s history. On week ago, Los Angeles schools were closed due to a threat emailed to the school district, […]

Children were forced to watch their teacher get burned alive as the Taliban murdered 132 schoolchildren in the worst ever terrorist attack in Pakistan’s history when they struck the Army Public School on December 16, 2014. Right after the terrorist attack, everyone had questions they wanted answered and feelings they needed to express. Lots of […]