Migrant smuggling
“There are many horizons that must be visited … and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed…” Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North. IT was…
Behind fence, Mexico’s notorious Juarez is wary of Trump’s wall
Mexicans overwhelmingly say they oppose the wall US President-elect Donald Trump has promised to build along their northern border. But in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, where extensive fencing was erected by…
Running the political engine
There are ample signs that money in politics, or ‘political finance’, will assume much greater importance in the next general election and even during the run-up to the election. Disclosures…
Dreaming of Europe: One migrant’s trek through the Sahara
Thousands of desperate African migrants embark on the treacherous journey through the Sahara desert each year. They risk their lives to realize a vague dream of a better life in…
Deadly shipwreck fails to deter migrants in Egypt
A twist of fate stopped Abu Fahd boarding a doomed migrant boat that sank off Malta with hundreds aboard, but the Syrian and his family are already plotting another perilous…
The dissension within
KHAN Said alias Sajna and Shehryar Mehsud, both from the Mehsud Taliban fighters, continue to engage in a bloodbath for turf and kitty. According to first-hand reports, dozens of fighters,…
Italy on the spot over treatment of boat migrants
The tough times are not over for migrants undertaking life-threatening voyages on the Mediterranean Sea to flee poverty, repression and civil war even as their boats near Italy's shores. If…
Europe scrambles for response to Lampedusa tragedy
If there is one thing everybody in Europe agrees on after the deaths of around 200 migrants off the Italian coast last week, it is that something needs to be…
Global offshore money maze
All responsible governments in recent years have shown commitment to retrieving looted money by their citizens, but in Pakistan the PPP-led government during its five-year-tenure (2008-2013) acted as the main…
No ray of hope
In less than 20 months all coalition forces are due to withdraw from Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai’s outburst against the Americans had raised the question of whether Karzai wanted a…
