Reparations
ONLY mankind is brutal to its own species. A passage from Mani Shankar Aiyar’s latest book A Maverick in Politics (2024) scrapes the scab of memory, reminding one of the…
Reversing the business strategy
There is reverse production. There is reverse marketing. There is reverse pricing. These are all functional decisions. They are based on adjusting to the market conditions. They are based on…
Enforced disappearances
EARLIER this month the United Nations Human Rights Council wrapped up the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group, a state-driven process by which UN members review the…
Indian cough syrup: mystery middleman may be new clue
An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a…
Kashmir at the OIC
The recently held OIC Council of Foreign Ministers’ conference in Islamabad is a great diplomatic achievement for Pakistan against the backdrop of the complex internal political crises currently looming large…
A year on
Exactly one year ago, on February 1, the Myanmar military launched a coup and opened another bloody chapter in my country’s history. Since then, the junta has driven the state…
Barriers to recovery of stolen assets
Over the last ten years, only one third of international asset recovery cases have resulted in returns, according to the preliminary results of a recent survey by the Stolen Asset…
Modern colonialism
The refusal of the United States and fellow rich nations to compensate developing countries for the devastation wrought by air pollution and climate change smacks of a kind of modern…
Global safe house for dirty money
Developing countries, including Pakistan, continue to be deprived of their legitimate earnings and assets, thanks largely to the legalized import of dirty money by the real estate in developed countries.…
The abandoned Rohingya
The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar. Descendants of Arab traders, these people have a distinct language and different cultures from the Buddhist community. In 1982, the Myanmar…
