Pakistan is the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change Jason Edward Hickel’s tweet was a source of consolation at a time when my fellow countrymen are in distress owing to a deluge. The renowned economic anthropologist, while lamenting over the unprecedented…

The Taliban 2.0 regime has stayed put in power for more than a year. As they marked their one-year rule on August 15, 2022, it was a muted affair. The mood in the capital, Kabul, was dull and there was hardly anything…

Thousands dead or swept away in floods; over 5,000 km of roads destroyed, Balochistan severed from Sindh and Punjab I was in tears as I saw a social media post wherein a teenage boy, who is a rag-picker, contributed to the flood…

Ad-hocism, nepotism and corruption has sunk the island-nation state deep in turmoil As Sri Lanka boils and goes over the brink, there are some parallels for Pakistan. The South Asian island-nation state is literally unnerved and apparently has no contingency plans to…

Hussain ibn Ali is a symbol of courage and a marvel of defiance against submission to an unjust order It is not necessary to be a Shia to be a lover or admirer of Imam Hussain. Nor to be a Muslim to…

From Nehru to Narendra Modi, there were many slips. From Shimla to Agra, it is a tale of broken promises Indian Administrative Service officer, Moosa Raza, who served as Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, in his book ‘Kashmir: Land of Regrets,’…

An experiment to show an elected prime minister the door in April by a ‘coalition of the unwilling’ has backfired While Pakistanis remain groped in political instability and economic regression, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Two statements…

The answer lies in erecting a system that is responsive and judicious, empowering the masses Pakistan, like any other country, has its own set of problems. But the biggest dichotomy, perhaps, is that there is no recourse to addressing grievances in real…

Naseer Turabi, a legendary Urdu poet, could not have prophesied it better. He was in tears on hearing the news of the Fall of Dhaka in December 1971, and he penned his emotions instantly by saying: Vo ham-safar thā magar us se…

At a stone-throw distance from the Constitution Avenue in the federal capital these days is a lively theatre of refugees. They are Afghan expatriates who are in a dilemma of their own. They are scared of going back to their home, and…