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Can the disease be the cure?

There is such a thing as a false binary. But the fact that crimes have already been committed against the people of Pakistan – whose will and authority is enshrined…

The 24th and 25th amendments

The 24th Amendment was tabled in 2017; then-president Mamnoon Hussain authorized it on December 22, 2017. This was the last year of the third PML-N government, and its leader Nawaz…

A government in contempt

Those who thought that sanity would return to the ranks of the government, and that they would take the requisite steps to facilitate the holding of elections for the Punjab…

Zero waste

On December 14, 2022 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution at its 77th session to declare March 30 as the International Day of Zero Waste, to be observed…

The meaning of misogyny

We have always been an essentially misogynist and patriarchal society. Perhaps the two go together. Abusive language almost always contains comments about women, and these are the words most often…

Iraq’s Saddam still revered in Jordan

Twenty years after the fall of his regime, the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains admired and popular in Jordan where his image can still be seen across the country.…

WB: A wake-up call

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Nero was rightly blamed for ignoring a serious matter, and neglecting his people while they suffered. Events unfolding in Pakistan in quick succession amidst indifference…

Manhattan project

HAD the Trump team been trying to figure out a scenario that would propel their figurehead down the path to second coming, they could hardly have done better than arrange…

Our domestic violence dilemma

Against the backdrop of Pakistan’s chaotic political climate that depicts the nation’s political leaders playing a game of musical chairs – while exhibiting a sense of misplaced bravado – Pakistani…