Insurgency and social change
THE recent killing of seven barbershop workers from Punjab in Gwadar is another indicator that the insurgency in Balochistan is evolving and intensifying demographic changes, which will impact the sociopolitical…
Moral panic and social change
LAST week in an interview to a private TV channel, the prime minister made several remarks about what he believed were indicators of moral degradation in Pakistani society, and the underlying reason…
Social change through education
Education, during different periods of history, assumed different meanings and focused on different objectives. It has usually been equated with change, development and emancipation. It is important, however, to understand…
The dynamics of the Depression and social change
On July 28, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and the Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) introduced a book entitled Hamaray Huqooq, Hamari Maloomat to the public. It…
The dynamics of the Depression and social change
Every age passes through two phases - the rising phase and declining phase. During the ascending phase, the dominant class is clearly on top and its reign is more or…
Heralding social, financial change, China aims blow at iron rice bowl
China has ordered state firms to smash the decades-old system of providing cradle-to-grave welfare support, known as the country's "iron rice bowl".But the order, part of a plan to reduce…
Women, climate change and health
Climate change has impacted many people worldwide, from Syria and Turkey to Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan. Coping with the recent floods has left a lot of the population of Pakistan…
Pakistan must change direction
Pakistan’s persistent failure to develop a strong economy and combat growing poverty stems from incompetent governance accompanied by massive corruption at the highest levels, leading to economic collapse, and bringing…
Change his name if BJP wins
THERE is a perceptible voter fatigue against divisive planks. That’s encouraging news coming in for Indian democracy, which braces for a seven-stage general election starting Friday. The last round of voting is…
The winds of change
SILENCE is complicity, said the Philippines Nobel laureate journalist Maria Ressa in her 2022 memoir How to Stand Up to a Dictator. Our biggest problems are the results of choices…
