May 8: World Red Cross & Red Crescent Day
The Red Cross & Red Crescent Day is celebrated worldwide on May 8 every year. It is International festival of the largest humanitarian movement. The Red Cross idea was born…
Red Cross to feed one million in war against Somalia hunger
The Red Cross is undertaking a massive food distribution project across Somalia, in an effort to tackle the worsening hunger crisis in the war-torn nation. "We want to feed one…
Crossing the red lines?
The Pakistani opposition’s relentless attacks have triggered a dangerous trend – the fallout from breaking the hitherto well recognized red lines. For years, a succession of Pakistan’s elected governments and…
Crossing redlines
Redlines have indeed been crossed too often by adversaries-in-partnership against terrorism – terrorism that they have been sponsoring and countering to their own convenience. What is new in this crossing…
Crossing the red line
Malik Saeed Hasan is a legendary figure in the Lahore High Court Bar Association who has many quotable quotes to his credit. But the one often repeated is his proud…
Crossing the ‘red lines’?
For Asif Zardari, Lahore’s Governor’s House has bad vibes. He was taken into custody from there on charges of corruption in November 1996 when Benazir Bhutto’s government was thrown out…
Carbon markets with a gendered lens
Carbon markets are emerging as an essential financial mechanism in the global effort to combat climate change. By assigning a monetary value to carbon emissions, these markets incentivise emission reductions…
Tariff crossfire
BY all accounts a world is ending and we don’t know what is going to replace it. For Pakistan this is particularly troubling because despite what we like to tell…
A predator state
PAKISTAN appears to fit the definition of a ‘predator state’ which, according to economist James K. Galbraith, is “a political system in which a narrow band of elites uses policy…
Beyond the red tape
Pakistan’s economic stagnation and governance inefficiencies are deeply rooted in a bureaucratic structure that prioritises control over progress. While the system effectively maintains order, its failure to adapt, innovate and…
