Child labour: from Karachi to KPK
As many poor and helpless kids sweat and drag for little livelihood day-after-day the whole year round, it is even more revealing when children labor from dawn to dusk, city…
It’s KP, not KPK
Some in the ruling elite and even members of the intelligentsia keep referring wrongly to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as KPK. If an abbreviation is to be used, it has to be…
VIEW POINT: LG polls in KPK
The just concluded local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have generated a lot of heat and dust, and a fresh controversy about electoral rigging. The JUI-F, ANP, PPP and PML-N…
Loss-making Discos — Who tops the chart?
Unfortunately, the Pakistan Power Sector is never away from the public eye– specifically, since the last two decades. Media, primarily, picked-up the then ongoing negotiations with the notorious IPPs in…
Silent screams
Face bruised, eyes swollen, skull cracked, bones broken, burnt skin. The heartbreaking and gut-wrenching state of 14-year-old Rizwana a day after she was admitted to a hospital in Lahore. This…
UFG: the elephant in the room
Natural gas is the most important energy source in Pakistan’s energy mix providing 40% of its primary energy supplies for decades. According to the Energy Year Book for 2022, Pakistan’s…
A questionable digital census
On 5th August, the Council of Common Interests unanimously approved the results of the 7th Population Census of Pakistan, and immediately received a note of thanks from the Pakistan Bureau…
