Dealing with child abuse
THE abduction, rape and murder of eight-year-old Zainab in Kasur in January 2018 shook the entire nation out of its complacency in such cases. But hopes of a decline in…
Scales of justice
The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom did his thing, which was little in the way of disagreement. The superpower has issued a request; the retainer would comply. This week,…
The American way
Just after dawn on March 16, 1968, a company of US Army infantrymen, led by Capt Ernest Medina and spearheaded by Lt William Calley, entered the small hamlet of My…
Starved of funds
THIS year the Nobel Peace Prize has two winners: one is Nadia Murad, who used her platform as a former ISIS sex slave from the embattled Yazidi community in Iraq…
Reform resistance
PHYSICAL infrastructure dominated the development policy of the last government. In his first speech, the prime minister of our new government spoke of human development, environmentalism, devolution, government and bureaucratic…
Hazaras and the absent state
“THE security forces are here, police are here. What more can we do?” asked DIG Quetta after the bomb attack in Hazarganji. Unfortunately, such targeted attacks are nothing new for…
Between livelihood and justice
What’s more important: rozi (livelihood) or justice? Rozi is all important, certainly more important than abstract and elusive concepts like justice. In some cases, your rozi may be tied to…
Warning: learning curve ahead
A SMALL triumph of some sort has been scored, it seems, by sentencing Nawaz Sharif to a prison term and unveiling a damning JIT report against Asif Zardari and company. It is hard…
Ghosn arrest puts Japan’s justice system in the dock
The shock arrest of former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has thrown the international spotlight onto Japan's criminal justice system, where suspects face prolonged detention and interrogation without lawyers present. Rights…
For the rich
The children of working stiffs learned a brutal lesson this week as federal prosecutors criminally charged rich people with buying admission to elite universities for their less-than-stellar children. The lesson…
