Our climate journey in 16 months: Part – II
As Pakistan continued reeling from the exogenous shock of accelerated climate impacts, it also became clear to many of us that global warming was not changing course. The year 2030…
Kashmir: on a dangerous slide
India is a constitutional democracy and a secular state, as claimed by its citizens, but the existing ground realties reveal the opposite. Its majority Hindu population is becoming increasingly intolerant…
Deadly refugee journeys
In recent months, a debate has been brewing inside Italy and across the European Union about NGOs that operate in the Mediterranean Sea between the coasts of Sicily and Libya…
A dangerous path
IN all of this, in all the messy, confused, stuttering start to his term, there has been only one real surprise: Imran seems to harbour a very genuine loathing and…
Our journey to the end of reason
The eventual outcome of the events which began at Faizabad on the Islamabad Expressway leaves behind a deep sense of sadness. A sadness for a state that failed, for a…
Chronicling desperate journeys
Muhammed Muheisen is perhaps the only Arab photographer and journalist, as far as I know, who has won the coveted Pulitzer Prize, which is like journalism’s Nobel. The distinction is…
Dangerous pastimes
How many persons died from drinking tainted liquor in Toba Tek Singh? Some reports say 35, others 44. Either way it’s a sad event. The dead are Christians who, presumably,…
A diplomatic journey
Nicholas Barrington was an extraordinary diplomat who served in what were extraordinary times in the countries where he was posted. His engaging memoir, ‘Envoy’, takes the reader on a breezy…
Immigrants’ woes
IMMIGRATION policy can have serious rights implications for vulnerable individuals and must be addressed sensitively. Yet, the global immigration discourse indicates that the issue is being seen mainly from a…
Cool escapes
MOUNTAINS measure time in millennia. The sight of Nanga Parbat’s peak from the plane as we neared Gilgit reminded me that PIA’s aircraft and I had grown older: the Himalayas…
