Palpable despondency
The signs of economic stability have strengthened. The most pressing challenge of current account deficit (CAD), with implications for the country’s viability, is firmly in control. Even if due to…
PIA-Palpa standoff has finally ended
There was a continuing impasse in the negotiations between the PIA management and the Palpa office-bearers but they seemed to be going round and round in circles and were not…
Missing the bigger picture
IN October, as cooler temperatures arrived and smog started to fill the skies across Punjab, the provincial government rolled out the Roadmap for Smog Mitigation in Punjab 2024-2025. However, this plan raises more…
From Paris to Baku – lessons from COP29
The much-anticipated COP29 in Baku concluded with the ‘Baku Breakthrough, setting the stage for COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Let me build a longish context starting from COP21, the Paris Agreement,…
The fissures within
THERE was nothing surprising about the by-election results. The ruling PML-N won the majority of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies’ seats up for grabs in Punjab amid allegations of rigging.…
Climate catastrophes of the past
IF words could cool people down, writers would be very busy these days. As the heat index rises to previously unheard of levels, it is tempting as an author to…
Protecting children
WITH nearly nine million Pakistanis living outside Pakistan and as a precarious economy compels many others to search for greener pastures, the spectre of transnational families will become more ubiquitous.…
The fissures within
THERE was nothing surprising about the by-election results. The ruling PML-N won the majority of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies’ seats up for grabs in Punjab amid allegations of rigging.…
Stop fearing ordinary people
THE legendary public intellectual and political analyst Abdul Ghafoor Noorani, who passed away at 93 in Mumbai last week, had believed that Narendra Modi’s foreign policy flowed from his ideological prejudice cradled…
Leaving behind millions
TODAY is World Population Day and the theme this year is ‘Interwoven Lives, Threads of Hope’. While the world is becoming increasingly interconnected, it has, paradoxically, also become vastly inequitable.…
