Sherry Rehman questions govt’s decision to abolish PMDC
Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the Senate Senator Sherry Rehman raised the alarm on how the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) sealed the building of the Pakistan Medical…
Lawfare against Farhatullah Babar
In one of my previous columns (‘Lawfare limited to warfare unlimited’, March 30, 2025) we discussed how states tend to use the law as a means to stifle dissenting voices.…
Solar flipflops and the energy crisis
Pakistan’s energy landscape is in upheaval. The government’s recent slash of the net?metering buyback rate -- from Rs27 to Rs10 per unit -- has sparked fierce debate. Awais Leghari, the…
Annual COP-out
EVEN the low expectations that preceded the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29), which concluded in the early hours of Sunday, turned out to have been too high. After the gavel…
Women emerging
INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is in March. Throughout the month, there are women’s rights marches, celebrations, and conferences, globally and in Pakistan. During the same month, the new federal and provincial…
Climate adaptation
WORLD War III will get us before climate change. This is an increasingly common refrain, an understandable response to tragic and terrifying world events. As the Israel-Gaza war dominates headlines,…
The climate action conversation
Last week, Pakistan’s Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman had a very tough job ahead of her. In a milieu of the wealthy and the extremely wealthy, she had to…
Disaster tourism?
IN an emergency, the best and the worst in human nature comes out for all to see. Unfortunately, the scenes witnessed on Wednesday and Thursday in Karachi’s Seaview area were…
Exit strategy
WITHIN a few weeks, a bunch of international geologists are expected to pick a spot to mark the birth of what some scientists are calling the Anthropocene, the latest epoch…
‘Iterum puer nobis’
THE story goes that when PPP Senator Sherry Rehman’s Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and Punishment), 2021, bill was put up for voting in the Senate on a balmy July…
