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Tribal issues

Tribal feuds in Upper Sindh have turned the region into a battlefield, claiming hundreds of innocent lives and exposing the alarming absence of the writ of the law. The recent…

Deadly toll of neglect

Pakistan is perceived by many as a dangerous country for various reasons. These include rising crime rates in major cities like Karachi and Lahore, deaths resulting from terrorism, abductions, and…

Case of the missing poet

YET another case of alleged enforced disappearance has demonstrated the impunity granted to certain forces in the country, which consider themselves above the law in an increasingly repressive dispensation. Ahmad…

Curious case of Priya Kumari

IT was on Ashura, Aug 19, 2021, when nine-year-old Priya Kumari went missing. Just before her disappearance or abduction she had been happily helping her father — a syncretic Hindu…

Protecting children

WITH nearly nine million Pakistanis living outside Pakistan and as a precarious economy compels many others to search for greener pastures, the spectre of transnational families will become more ubiquitous.…

No peace of mind

DOMESTIC violence in Pakistan is widespread and indicative of deep gender inequalities and socioeconomic instabilities that are, in turn, exacerbated by unemployment and community disorder. Collectively, these factors contribute to…

Enforced disappearances

EARLIER this month the United Nations Human Rights Council wrapped up the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group, a state-driven process by which UN members review the…

Modern slavery?

ON April 16, 2022, a teenager in Karachi stepped out of her home early in the morning to throw garbage in the public bin nearby. She never returned home that…

Our Latin American slide

After a CIA- and MI6-orchestrated campaign of mass killing and ‘purges’ in Indonesia in the 1960s that left an estimated upward of one million Indonesians dead, the attention of the…

Entrenched abuse

IN the shadow of Zainab Ansari’s tragic case in 2018, the 2020 conviction of Sohail Ayaz for child sexual abuse casts a spotlight on the epidemic of such crimes in…