Institutionalising minority rights
Pakistan has been facing severe criticism by the international community for many decades now due to the overall atmosphere of intolerance and systematic persecution meted out to its religious minorities.…
Digital dangers
AMONG the paradoxes of our era is that globalisation has been connecting the world and also fragmenting it. The world is more interconnected than ever before but also atomised. This…
Pakistan, Palestine and the World Court
Pakistan has an important opportunity to support Palestinian rights at the World Court and in doing so to advance key principles of international law that protect human rights globally. In…
Deadlock in Israel
It would be a grave mistake to assume that the continuing political deadlock in Israel – with neither incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main rival Benny Gantz seemingly…
Women in the minority
On this International Women’s Day, let us look at the challenges that minority women and girls face, in addition to those of an average Pakistani woman. Gender experts often use…
Indigenising human rights
The notion of human rights has gradually been stripped of its moral legitimacy. It has been reduced to little more than a fiction, laid bare of any substance and consigned…
A right-wing world
Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and now Trump. The world finds its scapegoats. After all, it is much too easy for us to attribute all the evil and hopelessness in this world…
Dr Salam, Chakwal and symbolism
Why would a mainstream political figure publicly invoke Dr Abdus Salam’s name in the Pakistan of 2016? This is not the question that arose when we learnt last week about…
Women in parliament
We remember sitting with a young woman councilor in Sindh, who hesitated to speak in council meetings despite knowing her constituency’s issues inside out. “There’s an invisible line I can’t…
Women in parliament
We remember sitting with a young woman councilor in Sindh, who hesitated to speak in council meetings despite knowing her constituency’s issues inside out. “There’s an invisible line I can’t…
