Media freedom in limbo as Egypt begins new transition
The closure of Islamist TV channels in Egypt following the army ouster of president Mohammed Morsi has been slammed by rights groups as an attack on the freedom of expression,…
Pakistan and leadership transition in China
Since the 1990s, China's top leaders serve a maximum of two five-year terms. With the last batch of leaders having reached the end of their second term last year, there…
Lahore’s ruin at Shahbaz Sharif’s hands
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has struck a blow for the preservation of the Punjab capital's heritage and against the incremental tendency of the province's PML-N government, and especially Chief…
No climate policy
In September 2012, the federal climate change ministry developed the National Climate Change Policy. The goal of the policy was to mainstream climate change in various sectors. However, the policy…
State of transport
The Sindh government’s Karachi Mass Transit Plan 2030 contains six bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors. At a well-attended public meeting arranged by the Sindh Environment Protection Agency, the Mass Transit…
COP30 and the global climate dis|order
COP30 in Belem unfolded in a setting that held both political symbolism and ecological gravity. The Amazon is a living system that stabilises the climate for the entire planet. So,…
Partition scheme
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the…
Diagnosing organised crime
WHAT may appear as disparate events carried out by separate criminal syndicates are in fact manifestations of the overarching phenomenon of organised crime. For instance, the recent devastating floods in Swat, often…
From SAR to MENAAP
ON July 1 this year, during my usual doom-scrolling, I came across a tweet by Dr Martin Reiser, vice-president, South Asia, World Bank, announcing his retirement. At the same time…
The trouble with the Arabs
TO be sustainable, Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza must serve the core interests of Arabs, including Christian Arabs, and the Jews of Palestine/Israel equally and fairly. Infirmities in the…
