A future for every girl
She should be in a classroom, not a marriage contract. She should be carrying schoolbooks, not wedding bangles. And yet, in Pakistan, girls are pulled from their childhoods and thrust…
Our treatment of them
IT got to a point where the newspaper started smelling like a hospital. It is difficult to say when was the last time the healthcare system in the country came…
A happier childhood for all
How protected, happy and most importantly ‘wholesome’ are all our children’s lives? With an estimated 107, 662, 243 children under the age of 18 in Pakistan (Unicef, 2023) the question…
The road to hell…
The government and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) have finally, after much toing and froing, come to an agreement to hold talks, with the Speaker National Assembly (NA) Ayaz Sadiq playing…
Question of age
SHEHBAZ Sharif is the new prime minister of Pakistan and the first one to sit in this chair for consecutive terms; he is also the second to get here after having served…
Assault on democracy
The PTI jalsa exposed the inner entrails of the government and the party. The government reluctantly allowed the meeting to take place and then, almost childishly, used every trick in…
Question of age
SHEHBAZ Sharif is the new prime minister of Pakistan and the first one to sit in this chair for consecutive terms; he is also the second to get here after having served…
Constitutional amendments – Part II
In 1975, with the National Awami Party (NAP) banned and all its properties and funds forfeited, the consequences of the early constitutional amendments came to the fore. While drafting the…
Recovering from a crisis
In a TV interview a few weeks back, former prime minister Mr Imran Khan rather disdainfully said that he was not afraid if martial law was imposed: “If they want,…
Imran’s shifting narrative
Politics in Pakistan, regrettably, continues to be characterized by devious and dirty antics by political parties and their leaders. The irresistible propensity among political actors to defy the constitution, law…
