Humanitarian needs
On Monday, leaders from governments, international agencies, the private sector and civil society will gather at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, to address some of the most critical challenges…
Humanitarian hope
If you see the news in Pakistan today, there are disturbingly diverse juxtapositions between stories about the lives of the powerful or famous and the stories – usually less visible…
Medical humanitarianism
Recently, the prime minister announced a healthcare package for the masses. This is a very good initiative to help the poor, as they are in dire need of such facilities…
‘Humanitarian’ intervention
Sovereignty cannot be a shield for tyrants to commit one murder; nor can it be an excuse for the international community to turn a blind eye. This is what US…
Here is our Shaheen
In the infinite canvas of the sky, where winds whisper of freedom and destiny, there soars a force that embodies the very dream of Allama Muhammad Iqbal: the Pakistan Air…
Now, the hard part
HECTIC diplomacy and decisive intervention by President Donald Trump produced a ceasefire in Gaza after two years of a brutal Israeli military offensive that left over 67,000 Palestinians dead, a humanitarian catastrophe…
Hope emerges from Istanbul
In the incessantly destroyed national and individual lives of Palestinians – by so many global and regional powers and people – hope for a better future was never going to…
Israel’s enablers
Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides – in India,…
A farce called peace plan
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has finally unveiled his much-touted 20-point plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, which he describes as a landmark deal to end two years of a devastating war. But in…
Silence writes genocide
THESE days, writing feels like the debris of a robot infused with AI. The purpose of writing has been lost. Most op-eds, papers and social media posts are filled with…
