Incoherent mind
If personal whims and dogmatic worldview are given institutional support, the ultimate result will be the expansion of dogmatism in self, state and society. This is precisely the case with…
A girl abandoned by the state
A crying shame it is for this country that it is not shaken to the core by the suicide of an 18-year-old near Muzaffargarh. We have no evidence of opinion…
A woman’s lot The CII comes across as an anti-woman body
I Don't understand why the Taliban are killing and maiming thousands in their quest to impose their version of the Sharia on us when the Council of Islamic Ideology is…
Gender relations
Man and woman are the two wheels of human civilisation. They both spring from the same root and draw their life support from the same source. One cannot survive without…
Khushhali Bank: helping women stand on their feet
Entrepreneurship comes from within. And while some might think that men have monopoly on entrepreneurship, one is pleasantly surprised to find out about the entrepreneurial spirits of Pakistani women and…
Fear is democratic
Talking of families and loved ones divided by man-made walls, Indian journalist Saeed Naqvi recalls a relative who refused to move to Pakistan in 1947 like the rest of the…
Domestic workers come out of the closet in Hong Kong
Working long hours away from home for low pay and little time off, life is tough for foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong, but for some the city has brought…
An eventful year
Pakistan is an eventful country but some years are more eventful than others. The year 2013 was one such year. In this one calendar year, heads of all state institutions,…
Spectre of targeted killings
Two-Year-OLD Zala, cradled in her uncle’s arms and chewing gum, was completely unaware that she was participating in the funeral procession of her father. She had no idea of the…
Son’s death from AIDS turned Mandela to cause he neglected
When Nelson Mandela is laid to rest Sunday in his ancestral village of Qunu, he will be interred next to three of his children, one of who died of AIDS-related…
