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Teenage blues

THE teenage years are not a trouble-free phase in a young person’s life. The transition to adulthood poses many challenges, mainly due to physiological reasons, including hormonal changes in the…

Saving mothers

“A COUNTRY that has an atom bomb; whose armed forces have the most sophisticated and costly weapons; whose politicians are counted among the world’s richest men; also has underprivileged women…

Pregnant in the flood

A BACKDROP to this column appeared in my last op-ed article (‘Pregnant, before the flood’) published on these pages on Oct 7. The vulnerable need affirmative action during emergencies. Women…

Art of listening

IF the floods were a natural calamity, Pakistan’s population explosion is no less than a man-made disaster. Dr Shershah Syed, a well-known gynaecologist, estimates that there are 75,000 pregnant women…

Where women get a lifeline

A majority of poor women in Pakistan have a faint hope of living a better life. If they suffer from a disease that carries some stigma, their lives become even…

A pioneer

THE women’s movement in Pakistan has come a long way since its inception. It has assumed different forms and strategies during the course of its development while focusing on the…

The Modi phenomenon

It was Nato’s provocative endeavour of extending itself to Russia’s doorstep that thrust Ukraine into a devastating war. Now India – along with Australia, Japan and the US – has…

Healthcare neglect

One troubling aspect of our society is the presence of a host of mafias which have cropped up as a result of wrong and unimaginative policies of successive governments. These…

The struggle is real

‘YOU can’t make enough milk.’ ‘You can’t possibly breastfeed, don’t you have to return to work?’ ‘You have to give a bottle at night.’ ‘Give formula with it for more…

Our rural areas

ACCORDING to the 2017 census report, nearly 63 per cent of Pakistan’s population lives in the rural areas. For a developing country, this poses many challenges in terms of equity…