Change in the air?
IT has begun. Thousands of scientists, activists, politicians and business folk yesterday began buzzing around Glasgow, brainstorming how to save the world. The hype around this year’s UN Climate Change…
Trump’s Jerusalem move brings little change, big risk
US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital may bring little immediate concrete change but risks sparking another round of violence in a conflict that has lasted decades.…
Climate change crisis and COP26
‘Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C relative to pre-industrial times.…
Will COP26 deforestation pledge be game-changer or just more broken promises?
A new pledge by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030 is likely to fail unless quickly backed by more funding, transparent monitoring and tough regulation of businesses and financiers…
Is China’s pledge to cut overseas coal funding a game-changer?
China’s pledge to stop funding overseas coal has been welcomed as a climate landmark that could dry up funding for smoke-billowing plants in poor countries. But the world’s top polluter…
Domestic violence
WITH the enactment of the Domestic Violence against Women (Prevention and Protection) Act in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in January 2021, all four provinces of Pakistan are now equipped with legislation that…
What is the domestic violence law?
The opposition to the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill 2021 exposes both the societal paradox that violence in one form or another is necessary to sustain our family structure,…
Desire to change
On March 18, at the National Security Division’s first-ever ‘security dialogue’, General Qamar Javed Bajwa stated that it is “our desire to change the narrative of geo-political contestation into geo-economic…
A domestic, not foreign, challenge
Is the situation in Afghanistan a foreign policy challenge or a domestic policy conundrum? At the heart of the conversation initiated by Ejaz Haider in ‘The Friday Times’ is really…
The game changers
WOMEN’S economic empowerment is not just a buzzword, it’s a game-changing concept. Women’s economic participation, financial inclusion, and labour force contributions have a direct influence on socioeconomic outcomes, prosperity and…
