Women’s political participation in shaping political discourse has remained minimal despite their significant proportion of the total population. Globally, there is an increasing focus on creating gender-balanced societies to address…
EVERYONE seems to be in a hurry to forget Nov 26, from those who were behind it to those who faced the brunt of it. The government must be relieved it…
TRAGICALLY, though not unexpectedly, there are more Pakistani bodies in the waters off Greece this month. They include a 13-year-old boy from Pasrur, who insisted on the dangerous trip, enticed…
OVER the last decade, media and political discourse have increasingly focused on youth. The so-called youth bulge has been heralded as a potential demographic dividend — a transformative force for…
TODAY is day 15 of the UN’s 16 days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign. Before you stop reading, bored by the prospect of a feminist diatribe, consider that 28…
BRITISH Prime Minister Keir Starmer was recently accused of having a ‘colonial mindset’ by fellow lawmakers for declining to discuss slavery reparations in the Commonwealth Summit in Samoa. PM Starmer…
After decades of facilitating and even encouraging China’s rise, the dramatic shift by the US to a policy of containment could gather pace when Donald Trump takes over on January…
When smog rolls across the Subcontinent, it makes no distinction between Lahore and Delhi, friend or foe. This toxic haze defies borders and geopolitical tensions, drifting freely from one city…
The boundaries of parliamentary sovereignty have seized recent political discourse and occupied the attention of the judiciary and legal fraternity. While the government fought tooth and nail to pass the…
THE recent alleged rape case and the events that followed on the campuses of the Punjab Group of Colleges (PBC) across the province underscore two critical issues in the country:…
