Women dying everywhere
THIS year, just like every year, UN Women is commemorating 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence from Nov 25 to Dec 10. This annual observance is meant to focus…
Unsafe spaces
VIOLENCE against women takes many forms — including rape, murder, sexual harassment, domestic violence and child and forced marriages — and is prevalent in Pakistan. Women are not safe in…
World News Day
IN 1896, The New York Times introduced on its masthead the words which went on to become not only its own manifesto but also set the standard by which other…
The Qandeel case
THERE’S a passage towards the end of Sanam Maher’s riveting book, The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch, “When Wasim returned to Shah Sadar Din after Qandeel was murdered,…
The Katcha’s criminal nexus
The recent ambush by dacoits in the Katcha area of Machka, which killed twelve policemen and injured seven others, has raised serious concerns about the presence of well-organized and violent…
Mehrjui and Iranian cinema ( Part – I )
One of the founding fathers of Iranian New Wave cinema, Dariush Mehrjui, and his writer wife, Vahidea Mohammadi, lost their lives in a knife attack in Tehran on Oct 14,…
Analyzing IKnomics
Imran Khan has forwarded a 10-point agenda to steer the economy out of the existential crisis that Pakistan faces. This is welcome, since the government appears to be clueless on…
When women wonder
‘Power’ seems to contain infinite possibilities and prospects of varying degrees as well as implied guarantees of wealth and influence. It is a word that has had an interesting trajectory…
Our gender gap
“Having greater freedom to do the things one has reason to value is (i) significant in itself role for the person’s overall freedom and (ii) important in fostering the person’s…
Change for the better
Pakistan is a country that has a plague-like problem of abusing women, including everything from domestic violence to child marriage. Only recently, the former wife of a much-celebrated actor came…
