We Need Food, Not Tobacco on May 30, 2023Yet another 31st May – World No Tobacco Day has arrived urging us to work for making our world free of the addictive poison called tobacco. During last 12 months, Pakistan has seen some major developments. The ravaging floods in 2022, the record inflation, and the continuous political turmoil, all have jolted our economy and […]
Corporal punishment: for whose benefit? on April 30, 2023April 30th is marked as International Day to End Corporal Punishment across the world. In modern world it is astonishing to think that there’s need to dedicate an entire day to tell ‘humans’ no to physically beat up their children. However reality is harsh because only one out of seven children across the world is […]
The fault in our bars on January 13, 2023“Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.” – Nearly a century and three quarters and this quote by English historian Henry Thomas Buckle still holds true. While the criminal can’t be completely absolved of the act; functional societies examine and rectify the causes which can lead to crime. In modern era, special emphasis has […]
Stakeholders Must Unite for Pakistan’s Future on December 16, 2022December will remain etched forever in the memory of young Pakistanis as a dark month when 133 children lost their lives in a heinous attack on Army Public School, Peshawar, on December 16, 2014. Eight years since then, Pakistani children are still not safe. This threat, although of a different kind, has similar repercussions over […]
Floods – Washing Away the Future of Pakistani Children on September 14, 2022Children are the biggest victims of any natural calamity whether it is earthquake, viral outbreak or flood. Recent generations of Pakistani children have experienced all these disasters, which caused loss of education, issues in access to healthcare services, loss of shelter or shortage of food supply due to their parents losing their jobs. Unfortunately, the […]
Let’s make Pakistan smoke-free on May 30, 2022May 31st is celebrated across the world as ‘World No Tobacco Day’ to raise awareness on the hazards of tobacco consumption. Pakistan is the 8th largest tobacco producer in the world and according to World Health Organization the number of smokers in Pakistan has reached up to 29 million. In terms of economics, on an […]
Street Children are More Than a Number on April 11, 2022If there is one lesson Pakistan should have learned from the Coronavirus Pandemic that is children in Pakistan are still far away from realization of their basic rights. As the pandemic has somewhat subsided in April 2022, the political turmoil in the country has omitted the children from priority checklist of policymakers, media and the […]