Social security for all
The province of Sindh, characterized by its diverse economic framework, encompasses a substantial labour force integral to its industrial and service sectors. According to the most recent Labour Force Survey,…
Healthcare, social security systems needed
With all its tragedies, unprecedented complexities and uncertainties, the coronavirus pandemic should focus minds on the inadequacies in our healthcare and social security systems that need rectification at the earliest.…
Social security for all
The federal government has extended the restrictions imposed in the country till April 14. This decision was taken in the meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC). The NCC will…
Social security
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines 'social security' as "the principle or practice or a programme of public provision (as through social insurance or assistance) for the economic security and social…
The social justice divide
At its core, social justice is the promise that no citizen is left behind. Yet for millions of Pakistanis, this promise remains unfulfilled. The roots of these persistent inequalities lie…
Security challenge
Encrypted extremism has quietly ushered Pakistan into a new phase of the security contest. Where extremist networks once depended on physical hierarchies, local intermediaries and overt propaganda, they now leverage…
New internal security order
THE Balochistan government’s decision to abolish the Levies force was part of a broader state strategy to “harmonise” internal security institutions in response to critical national security challenges. On similar…
New internal security order
THE Balochistan government’s decision to abolish the Levies force was part of a broader state strategy to ‘harmonise’ internal security institutions in response to critical national security challenges. On similar…
Climate change is a security threat
The world treats defence as an existential priority – and rightly so, because lapses in readiness can trigger cascading crises. Climate change now carries the same gravity for vulnerable regions…
Rewriting the social contract
In Pakistan’s rural heartlands, a silent revolution is underway. For more than a century, the Indus Basin canal network, designed under British colonial rule, dictated the rhythm of agriculture. The…
