The world our men live in
I HAVE gone running and walking in F-9 park in the winters, when I lived close to it. Being able to take any form of exercise in the open in…
Is our nervous system in disarray?
“We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men, leaning together, headpiece filled with straw,” lamented T S Eliot: the ‘hollowness’ we have attained by embracing ‘irrationality’ through and…
Women and the law
The Islington Crime Surveys conducted in the 1980s by UK-based criminologists found that 73 per cent of women were concerned about going out alone at night, and 68 per cent…
Courts, crises, controversies
One of the most significant features of the 18th Amendment was the withdrawal of the power to dissolve the National Assembly from the president. In 1985, this discretionary authority was…
Does parliament need a contempt law?
The recent Contempt of Parliament Bill, 2023 has rightly raised eyebrows, and is being seen as flawed and conceived by parliamentarians unaware of their existing powers. In times where parliament…
A clown show
The senseless and completely avoidable tragedy in Murree is the result of simultaneous failures at many levels of government. Not only did the administration fail to place salt and snow…
SGBV and the police
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) cases have been rapidly rising at an alarming rate in Pakistan, a country that ranks as the sixth most dangerous country in the world for…
The outrage machinery
IT was hard to figure out what to write this week. Not that there was a shortage of issues but it is occasionally (perhaps frequently?) difficult to figure out what…
Women in France
PUBLIC hanging. Chemical castration. Ibratnaak executions. It’s an unlikely few phrases for making us feel better, but they’re said all the same. They also miss the point. The motorway rape occurred on Sept 9.…
Signposts to 2021
A year that begins with a huddle of the leaders of opposition parties to redesign their strategy at a critical moment in their campaign to overthrow the government of Prime…
