Overusing insecticide
Planting season for corn and soybeans across the US will begin as soon as March in Southern states and then move north. As farmers plant, they will deploy vast quantities…
Intrusive and misplaced
THE government is seeking to rush through (via presidential ordinances) consequential legislation to meet IMF conditionality. One of these pertains to changes in the Nepra Act that will, among other…
Colonial intrusion and Pakhtun resistance
The new gem from Akbar S Ahmed is a compiled and edited publication of two apparently unrelated, but subtly interlinked manuscripts: A set of Pakhtun proverbs (Mataloona) and a Resident…
Normal intrusions
They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or call it monitoring…
IMF intrusions
The IMF has, in its programs with Pakistan, traditionally restricted itself to the domain of economic reforms that are within the constitutional and legal framework of the country. The new…
Anti-Americanism: rhetoric and reality
Imran Khan’s PTI rushed to condemn the recent meeting between former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the US ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome, as “a significant intrusion into Pakistan’s internal…
Privatization plans
When Fawad Hasan Fawad became the caretaker federal minister for privatization on September 12, 2023 and was given the responsibility to look into the privatization of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA),…
The climate-hunger nexus
Pathways to resilience are never easy, but as global and national stock takes suggest, it is the only way forward for countries seeking to save their populations from growing climate…
Was the SC creating a firewall?
On August 11, 2023 the Supreme Court struck down the Supreme Court (Review of Judgments and Orders) Act, 2023. The essence of the Act was that it expanded the scope…
Privacy matters
Meta, to put it rather inelegantly, has a data non-compliance problem. That problem began in the original conception of Facebook, a social network conceived by that most anti-social of types,…
