Idle & unemployed
OUR chief census commissioner Naeemuz Zafar’s words failed to cause a stir when he said recently that there were 249,566,743 of us in the country. That we are too many…
High-stakes election for Germany’s long-term unemployed
Dozens of unemployed people troop into a church in the working-class Garath district of Duesseldorf, western Germany each Friday to load up on donated food, a small gesture towards those…
PhD holder and unemployed
UNIVERSITIES, the 200 or so registered and formal ones, and many more institutions working as colleges, affiliated institutions and/or as coaching centres, find it hard to hire qualified and competent…
Remembering ABS Jafri: Part – I
It was 1989. I was 25 years old and had just come back from Moscow – yes, the Soviet Union was still around. I started writing for the Urdu daily…
Adieu Khaled Ahmed!
My friend, Editor, journalist of 40 years standing, Khaled Ahmed passed away on Sunday night, November 17, 2024. He had been ill with an array of old age afflictions for…
Unplanned future
The past few years were spent in electioneering and in the wrangling between various political parties. While the lower segment of society faced a miserable time due to inflation and…
The making of HuT
IN January 2024, the British government labelled Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) as the 80th proscribed terrorist organisation, raising significant questions about balancing the protection of democratic institutions against subversive ideologies and…
Stateless workers
OF the 79 miners who have died since Jan 1, 2024, in Pakistan’s deadly coal mines, not a single one was registered with the EOBI. They were all born as…
No place for medics
IT has been 13 years since the US raid on the Osama bin Laden compound. A CIA-operated fake vaccination drive was used to locate the Al Qaeda chief. The repercussions…
Modi’s populism after India election reversal puts public finances at risk
After reverses in the general election and facing possible losses in state polls this year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coalition has stepped up cash handouts, debt waivers and other…
