Return to the dark ages
IT is a year since the Taliban stormed Kabul to retake control of Afghanistan some two decades after the conservative Islamic regime was routed by American forces following the events of 9/11.…
IT is a year since the Taliban stormed Kabul to retake control of Afghanistan some two decades after the conservative Islamic regime was routed by American forces following the events of 9/11.…
FOR the world, war is another means to conduct politics, but in Pakistan, the law is the only means to conduct politics. After a brief detour — via the streets…
There have been numerous attempts by private members of Pakistan’s National Assembly and Senate to amend the country’s Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929. In recent years, the proposed amendments…
THREE years have gone by since the WHO declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Termed as the world’s most serious humanitarian crisis since World War II,…
LAST month, a beautiful heritage building on Karachi’s Campbell Street was torn down illegally. After the publication of news reports and social media alerts, the provincial authorities sprang into action.…
When millions of Bangladeshis came back online this week after a nationwide internet shutdown, many were shocked to watch a ferocious police clampdown they had earlier only heard while bunkered…
President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s war in Ukraine is part of an existential struggle with the West that demands total focus - but deadly shootings in Dagestan show that militant…
The much-trumpeted high level official visit of prime minister Shehbaz Sharif to China is at its tail end. It is a high-level visit with high expectations as a significantly high…
In a nation grappling with the gut-wrenching realities of child abandonment and the neglect of its elderly population, a spark of hope has been ignited by a thought-provoking article that…
The emirate of Qatar has further boosted its status as a specialist power in resolving delicate hostage situations by using its influence to help secure the release of hostages by…