Rohingya crises: UN mission calls for ensuring accountability and justice on November 6, 2018The Rohingya horrors exposed by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, sent chills down the spine of the world as a result some western conscientious countries called for the Security council meeting to be briefed by the head of mission. The head of the UN fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar briefed the 15-member council, having argued […]
Suu kyi’s silence on the Rohingya genocide on October 14, 2018The Rohingya Muslims have suffered racial discrimination for decades in Myanmar. They are gunned down, their villages are burnt, crops destroyed, babies thrown into fire and ,girls and women raped. The northern state of Rakhine in Myanmar today is synonymous with death, destruction, displacement, forced Labour , enforced disappearances, poverty, hunger, mass rape and arson, […]
Overcoming Obstacles on the road to Naya Pakistan on August 6, 2018Predictions of a hung parliament by political pundits have been proven wrong with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerging as the single largest party. The stage is set and the party’s chairman, Imran Khan, is ready to swear in as Prime Minister. The election was truly of historic proportions, with a result that will be remembered as many […]
The curious case of Sindh’s missing persons on June 8, 2018Highlighting injustice and demanding justice through peaceful means is a democratic exercise. When the powerful institutions, the powers that be and the government do not listen to or are unresponsive to people, peaceful public demonstrations or a hunger strike is a democratic right of citizens to register their protest over certain pressing issues. Under such […]
Sindh’s education system must be reformed on May 28, 2018According to Frederick Douglass, “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.” Unfortunately, the schools which provide this light and liberty are poorly managed in the Sindh province; as a […]
Constitutional obligation violated on March 14, 2018Corruption is rampant in the country, bureaucracy and the powerful politicians are hand in glove in illegal practices. Because of this graft and greed, they both have cultivated common strategy of being over protective to each other when it comes to be accounted for their actions. Ahad Cheema episode shines light on this murky — […]