State promotion of war crimes on January 21, 2020Just after celebrating New Year 2020, the world was stunned at the first big news of the new decade — America killing Iran’s top general. The January 3 drone assassination of Qasem Suleimani in Iraq, on Trump’s orders, steeply escalated US-Iran tensions and brought the Middle East to the brink of war. Soon afterwards, another […]
Transitioning to a new decade on December 30, 20192019 is coming to an end and, with it, the entire decade of the 2010s. It is now time to welcome 2020 and a new decade. Many of us are full of speculation of what the 2020s will be like. The past decade has been so eventful that it feels like a distinct period in […]
Managing climate change on November 2, 2019On September 23, the UN Climate Summit in New York displayed a definite rise in the tempo of the global struggle against climate change. People around the world held a week of climate protests alongside the summit; beginning with the largest global climate marches ever on display in the run-up to the summit on September […]
The 6th Islamabad Lit Fest was a festive and literary relief on October 8, 2019For Islooites, the sixth Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF), hosted by the Oxford University Press (OUP) from September 27-29, 2019 was a site for sore eyes. It came amidst a year of dejection caused by bad news on multiple fronts. Tabdeeli was stumbling endlessly onto more of the same, Kashmiris were gagged in Occupied Kashmir precisely […]
Trumps first five days and the road ahead on January 27, 2017The first hundred days of a US president in office arecustomarily used as the period most indicative of his success. Trump’s very first day in office has been eventful already. He signed some executive orders, the most prominent of which is his first action to undermine Obamacare by ordering government agencies to interpret the regulations […]