Truth, trust and Covid recovery in Asia and the Pacific
With health systems at a breaking point, hospitals at capacity and desperate family members searching for oxygen for loved ones, the devastating second wave of Covid-19 that has swept across…
Costs of corruption
WE were promised Riyasat-i-Madina. Instead, Transparency International’s National Corruption Perception Survey, conducted this year across all four provinces, reiterates how rampant corruption is in Pakistan. The report’s findings have already…
Conspiracy epidemic, born in US, spreads in Europe
“It’s not a virus, it’s a tool to use power,” says Monique Lustig in the Netherlands, while in Germany, Hellmuth Mendel argues that “Covid is a story invented by an…
How BioNTech-Pfizer won the vaccine race
It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we need to fire the starting gun on this”. Sahin…
IDs and vaccines
PAKISTAN is once again on the brink. The past several days have seen rising death tolls — increasing to the point that they are daily records in themselves. The unforgiving…
To open or not?
WHEN schools in many parts of the world have resumed education in varying degrees, why are our schools still shuttered? The irony is that this is the fate of institutions…
End vaccine apartheid
The term ‘delta’ in science and mathematics denotes a difference, or a gap; as in the delta between two values. In geography, a delta is where a river meets the…
Covid lessons from India
India’s health minister declared victory over Covid-19 in January 2021. A month or so later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also celebrated India’s victory over the virus in words that seem…
Vaccine blunder
A man-made disaster of gigantic proportions is in the making: the government of Pakistan, with more than four dozen cabinet members, forgot to purchase Covid-19 vaccines on time. A blunder…
A deadly wave
A virulent second wave of the coronavirus continues to play havoc with the lives of Indians, ravaging cities after cities and towns after towns. More than 15000 people perished in…
