Should we not prevent heat islands and flooding in Karachi?
Over my dead body! Don’t you dare stop my delivery vans driving directly to my shop! The year was 2019 and Haji Nasir began fuming as soon as he noticed…
Islands of privilege
Peace and security are basics for any society to prosper. The purpose of modern states is to ensure safety for everyone irrespective of their social status. Absence of social tranquillity…
China seeks Pacific islands policing, security cooperation
China will seek a region-wide deal with almost a dozen Pacific island countries covering policing, security and data communication cooperation when Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts a meeting in Fiji…
Payment due: Pacific islands in the red as debts to China mount
Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku'alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation's central business and government districts. Out of the rubble, the…
A tale of two islands
The details of the two-island (Bundal and Buddo) controversy have been discussed in the national media so exhaustively over the last one week that one can, without having to build…
A tale of two islands
ON Aug 31, 2020, the president of Pakistan promulgated the Pakistan Islands Development Authority Ordinance whereunder the two islands, the Bundal and Buddo islands (the “islands”), both in the coastal…
Islands of pain
Although we have dozens of television channels and podcasts available over social media, which provide all kinds of news and news headlines, an astonishing number of people remain unaware of…
Islands for elite capture?
As if we didn’t already have enough controversies raging through the length and breadth of our society, another one has been added in the name of development. Widespread protests and…
Sindh and the islands
The federal government’s decision to establish an Island Authority through a presidential ordinance has continued to spark protests by Sindh’s nationalist and mainstream parties for the past two months. The…
The Chagos Islands
There are times when one tragedy tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us understand how much of the world is run for the…
