Law and medicine
The coronavirus is a greater threat to national and global security than terrorism ever was. If we legislated, reinterpreted, and even twisted laws for antiterrorism, we must similarly explore the…
Criminal negligence
The official numbers of corona cases are increasing with each passing day while the official response doesn’t seem to be catching up. No well-thought-out national plan has been announced and…
What is our strategy?
What is Prime Minister Imran Khan’s strategy to fight the coronavirus other than relying on the miracle that our genes might somehow be less susceptible or that the virus will…
Relief fund
These are radical times. We must be ready to implement bold, radical and farsighted policies to control and cure victims of Covid-19. We must seek guidance from China foremost to…
Wages of populism
Those who thought PM Imran Khan might suspend partisan pettifoggery in a time of a global health and economic crisis to forge national unity to confront Covid-19 were letting hope…
Business as usual
Never discount the importance of venality in international relations. While pandemics should provide the glue for a unified front in response – we keep being told of fighting this horrendous…
Locking down with conditions
The advent of Covid-19 has pushed the world to a precipice: the twin crises of public health and economy can easily lead to both unforeseen and unpalatable changes in human…
Riphah joins Helping Hands
Islamabad: Pakistan and other countries are facing the crises after COVID-19 sprouted, due to this Pandemic, every hospital in the world are on high alert for virus-infected patients. Likewise, every…
Despite virus rout on markets, hygiene firms clean up
This week’s virus-related markets slump has hammered companies worldwide but some winners have emerged as an anxious public clamours for face masks, hand sanitizers and cleaning products. Thermal imaging cameras…
IMF, World Bank consider ‘virtual’ Spring Meetings as virus spreads
Growing concerns inside the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank about the spread of the new coronavirus have prompted the institutions to consider scaling back their Spring Meetings in…
