Demystifying suicide
It is said that “the person who commits suicide, dies once. Those left behind die a thousand deaths, trying to relive those terrible moments and understand the reason why?” During…
Suicides, wars and conflicts
The recent report of the World Health Organization, revealing that 700,000 people killed themselves in 2019, was largely ignored by politicians, policymakers and a large section of the global media.…
Mysterious deaths
Last month, eleven members of a family, including women and children, were found mysteriously dead in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, India. They were Pakistani migrants who had migrated in…
Fifth column: Cast in faith
L`ast week, Dr Medha Vinayak Khole, a senior scientist and a deputy director general at the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune in Maharashtra, filed a complaint with the police that…
Staying alive
THE news of a teen boy’s death by suicide in Karachi in January caused a great deal of shock and concern, especially among parents. What would lead a young person…
Technology in mental health care
WITH the world becoming increasingly aware of the snowballing mental health (MH) crisis, there has been a corresponding rise in digital-based solutions designed to respond and scale the delivery of…
A serious business
EXTENDED Eid holidays bring everything to halt, except one’s digestion. It is a time to eat, pray and watch long films one would not otherwise find the time to see.…
Time to wake up
What had been forecast by this writer after the post-APS military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP’s) tribal areas in 2014 has come to pass. Not being able to sustain the…
Rights, the law and 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, it is important to review developments in human rights legislations enacted by the parliament of Pakistan. While it is impossible to analyze all the…
‘I will return’
Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a deep blue hospital gown, Imran Khan held forth from his hospital room on Friday evening as if he were on the container or…
