Crisis in Balochistan
IT is no longer surprising that parliament does not engage in meaningful debates on critical national challenges. It has become a platform for voicing concerns and hastily concluded discussions, as…
The PTI in Islamabad
ON Sunday, the PTI was able to hold a jalsa in Islamabad. More than a year after its troubles began on May 9, 2023, and the party contested an election…
Crisis in Balochistan
IT is no longer surprising that parliament does not engage in meaningful debates on critical national challenges. It has become a platform for voicing concerns and hastily concluded discussions, as…
Hundred days on
LURCHING from one controversy to another, the PML-N has marked 100 days in power. To ensure accountability and public welfare, one must regularly review the outcomes of all regimes via…
Climate stresses
LAST week offered a juxtaposition that captures Pakistan’s predicament. In Lahore, PTI supporters took to the streets to protest rigging and the lawfare against Imran Khan. Meanwhile, in Balochistan, lashing…
Neglected region
AFTER weeks of peaceful protests and sit-ins across Gilgit-Baltistan, two major demands of the demonstrators were finally accepted. The Pakistan government reluctantly restored the wheat subsidy and suspended the infamous…
Ruling class normal
PAKISTAN is on fire, and not in a good way. Interrelated demographic, ecological and economic crises are escalating. The incoming government owes its ‘success’ to the establishment and is considered…
Pakistan’s dual crisis: conflict and climate
Pakistan, a country historically embroiled in geopolitical conflicts, is now grappling with an even more complex challenge—one that is as natural as it is political. The latest World Risk Report, published…
A silent struggle
On one side of the world, millions of people are fighting to survive, to live another day, to celebrate life. In stark contrast, there are those who voluntarily deprive themselves…
An ugly crime
I STILL remember how suffocated I felt, and how my heart broke while reading the story of the 10-year-old IDP girl who was kidnapped and gang-raped just after her family…
