Lubna Jerar Naqvi

When you thought everything good, bad, and ugly had been said about and by Pakistan’s Imran Khan, he is referred to as “a charismatic narcissist” in The Economist in an article ‘Pakistan is at risk of default’ (February 11, 2023). The same first appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline […]

Rabia and her husband Raju work as sweepers in my apartment building. Their life has always been a fight to stop hunger from consuming them. They deal with this issue literally from the cradle to the grave. They are unaffected by who runs the country, what is happening in the corridors of power, and how […]

Diya Bheel’s headless and tortured body was discovered in a field near Sinjhoro, Sanghar District in Sindh (257 km from Karachi), on December 28. Diya was a native of Goth Deputy, Tal Sinjhoroa 40-year-old widow who worked on the farm of a local landlord. Many people shared the news of Diya’s murder on Twitter and […]

Gaslighting is “a form of intimidation or psychological abuse, where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their memory, perception and quite often, their sanity.” A modified version of this definition can be used to explain what the government and the gas supply companies are doing to Pakistanis. To be fair, only […]

Pakistan is struggling with floods and post-flood crises as millions continue to suffer. Strangle the response from within Pakistan has not been as overwhelming as it has been in the past every time a calamity hit the country. NGOs and volunteers, and even the government, have been working to tackle the overwhelming situation, it’s been […]

Gender crimes are underreported in the best of times in Pakistan. So, it comes as no surprise that these crimes and others will be ignored during a natural disaster of the magnitude Pakistan is facing nowadays. Everyone – police, armed forces, hospitals, medical personnel, media, and even some politicians – are on high alert and […]

While politics dominate the country’s media, a large part of Pakistan is drowning. Political leaders are ignoring the affected people as they fight for power. The situation is extremely bad and getting worse as help is slow in reaching the thousands of flood-affected people across the country particularly in Balochistan and Sindh. Delayed and inadequate […]