The Zainab Alert and beyond
Eleven children were abused in Pakistan every day in the year 2023, per Sahil – an NGO working for children’s welfare. In total, 4,213 cases of child abuse were reported…
Bibi Zainab’s leadership
More than thirteen centuries after the encounter at Karbala became a legend for all times to come, the epic story of this tragic massacre remains incomplete without the persona of…
Saving the other Zainabs
It is disheartening to see that politicians have continued to spar over the tragic murder of Zainab, ignoring the grief and agony of other parents whose daughters and sons have…
No lessons learnt
Pakistan is a unique country in which the authorities seem incapable of learning from past experience. Here we are in the middle of trying to unravel the Independent Power Producers’…
Kurram carnage
VIOLENCE in Kurram has spiked in frequency and magnitude recently. Fresh clashes erupted on Nov 21, when passenger vehicles were ambushed near Mandori. Forty-four persons lost their lives, including women and children. In revenge…
Mental health and justice
FORENSIC psychiatry, the nexus between psychology and law, has undergone a transformation within Pakistan’s judicial system. Arising from the foundations set by the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, and the Criminal…
Entrenched abuse
IN the shadow of Zainab Ansari’s tragic case in 2018, the 2020 conviction of Sohail Ayaz for child sexual abuse casts a spotlight on the epidemic of such crimes in…
Home thoughts
IN South Asia’s patriarchal societies, writings by women giving their perspective on sociopolitical issues in the early 20th century are not easily available. Diaries are even rarer. Happily, we now…
The world our men live in
I HAVE gone running and walking in F-9 park in the winters, when I lived close to it. Being able to take any form of exercise in the open in…
Hussain & justice
TODAY, people across the world — regardless of race, creed and colour — are all groaning under the weight of injustice and oppression. Some are caught in the midst of…
