Quake stalls election campaign of Turkey’s splintered opposition
Turkey’s splintered political opposition was supposed to agree Monday on a joint candidate to challenge Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year grip on power at the ballot box. But a catastrophic earthquake,…
Ehsaas Rehribaan stalled
For 42 street vendors in 1-10 Islamabad, February 3 was supposed to be like any other workday. They were to set up their stalls and prepare for a day of…
Climate resilience
The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) 2020 says that Pakistan has one of the highest levels of risk for urban water security and ranks among the lowest for disaster risk…
Battle for Islamabad
The local government election campaign in Islamabad is at its most crucial stage. The election will take place on December 31, 2022. Most likely, the election will feature a two-way…
What should a 2022 VC be asked?
The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT) is preparing to interview applicants for the position of Vice-chancellor (VC) for three major public-sector universities in Islamabad – the Quaid-e-Azam…
A highway runs through it
There is an ancient view of the world according to which the Earth was a flat disk. That disk had to be supported by something. So, it was imagined that…
What the worker says
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) is an area where one would expect much better labour laws and working conditions compared to other parts of the country. Sadly, this is not…
Reel inequality
On August 15, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it had apologised to Sacheen Littlefeather, a Native American activist who suffered abuse when she took a…
Collective mobility
On February 8, 2022, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) announced a plan to construct either three interchanges or underpasses on the Srinagar Highway at G-9, G-10, and G-11 signals to…
