What we cannot hide from
It’s an old topic. Only some fresh evidence adds to the urgency of the situation. There was a news item in the papers saying a few thousand donkey hides were…
The right way forward
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor. The recent actions by the Punjab Food Authority, a body we had barely heard about till it was taken over…
Chattering classes still not getting it
Islamabad diary Every morning when it is still dark and the streets are empty, thousands of people line up before the passport office in Kabul. Some time ago the office…
Impersonators all
The police in Okara appear to get more than their fair share of interesting if ostensibly the most ordinary mysteries to crack. A few months ago, policemen in the central…
Deprivation
Much debate goes on these days to determine whether extremist tendencies in young men are the result of brainwashing on religious grounds or whether acute economic deprivation is responsible. The…
The real meat
The Pakistani love affair with meat has been a long and enduring one. In decades past, every neighbourhood, rich or poor, featured a butcher shop, whose front prominently featured a…
Fleecing parents
If one could hear the thoughts of Pakistan’s rich and resourceful elite, one would hear the expression “Thank God! This is not my problem” over and over again. This powerful…
Time to add more faces
There are times when the police are just not efficient enough. In the latest blunder, they were guilty of arresting the wrong Ayesha Mumtaz in Lahore, and letting the real…
For Pakistan, a bell hooks
Readers may be surprised to see that the name of a person, bell hooks, is written in the lower case. Well, this is how she preferred it. The late African-American…
When women write
‘Womansplaining’, edited by Senator Sherry Rehman, is an anthology of thought-provoking essays – written by some of the most remarkable women – ‘navigating activism, politics and modernity in Pakistan’ The…
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