Looking at 2025
As 2025 dawns, the world and Pakistan stand at a critical crossroads. Globally, the mood is uncertain, with conflicts casting a shadow over hopes for peace. Domestically, Pakistan is grappling…
Mental health issues
CHILD labour and the mental health issues associated with it are amongst our most pressing challenges. The psychological effects of child labour can be more intense than its physical ramifications.…
Barrier to foreign investment
THE words “to attract investments from friendly countries in identified sectors through an empowered organisation that serves as a ‘single-window’ platform for facilitation, and to improve the ease of doing…
Migration in crisis
How hard is displacement? Displacement affects people’s souls, hearts, belongings, and most of all, physical wellbeing. This shows the deep sadness of those who try illegal immigration and lose everything.…
A people-centric judiciary
The legacy of colonialism casts a long shadow over many aspects of life in former colonies, not least of which is the judicial system. Inherited from a time and ideology…
Why money matters when taking climate change to court
When Serge de Gheldere decided - along with a dozen other Belgian citizens - to take the government to court in 2014 alleging climate inaction, he didn’t imagine he would…
Wafaqi Mohtasib’s institution
The sanctity and inviolability of human rights is the essential feature of the concept of ombudsmanship and the means to achieving the ultimate goal of good governance. Maladministration and bad…
Laws for people?
JAVED was never well off but he was able to purchase a six-marla (151.7 square metres) plot of land during his lifetime. Over time he married off his two daughters.…
Anatomy of misgovernance
As flies to wanton boys are we to gods/ They kill us for their sport -Thomas Hardy The crisis of governance that afflicts Pakistan is multi-dimensional; its causes are many…
Political prisoner?
WITH Nawaz Sharif out on medical bail, many ask if a convict deserves such unusual relief. They say this may be the first time a convict in Pakistan got such…
