Teenage blues …… Zubeida Mustafa
THE teenage years are not a trouble-free phase in a young person’s life. The transition to adulthood poses many challenges, mainly due to physiological reasons, including hormonal changes in the … Read More
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IMF misses the mark yet again …..Nadeem ul Haque | Shahid Kardar
THE 24th IMF programme has been approved by the Fund’s Board. As per the Fund’s traditional approach, the programme is grounded in a basic accounting and meaningless framework that relies … Read More
The spectrum of violence … Dr Ayesha Razzaque
About a week ago in Karachi, peaceful protesters against religious extremism and persecution of minorities were subjected to a roughing up at the hands of the Sindh Police. It did … Read More
Military in civil support …. Hafiz Ahsaan Ahmad Khokhar
The term ‘military deployment in aid of civil power’ refers to the use of armed forces to assist civil authorities in special circumstances when local or federal law enforcement agencies … Read More
Pakistani women entrepreneurs and sole proprietorship ….. Dr Rakhshinda Perveen
The fight for women entrepreneurs facing compound layers of inequality in Pakistan is relentless. A critical front in this confrontation is the eligibility to access donor funds, including feminist funds. … Read More
Clearing the air ….. Zofeen T. Ebrahim
INDIAN External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s historic visit — historic because the last official visit to Pakistan by an Indian foreign minister was undertaken by his predecessor, Sushma Swaraj, in … Read More
The wages of conflict …. Zahid Hussain
THE recent three-day Pashtun Qaumi Jirga in Jamrud was a reflection of the anguish of people who have suffered in a conflict that has ravaged KP for over two decades. … Read More
Gender, justice, and Pakistan: Part – II …… Zainab Durrani
Cultural, social or economic – pick a stratum of identification and we will have breached its lowest point to claim it for ourselves in the bid to hold our women … Read More
Focusing on foreign and domestic policies …… Talat Masood
Pakistan’s turn to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit has brought leaders of China, Russia, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and several Central Asian States to Islamabad. Apart from the … Read More
World is not about Indo-Pak ties …. Jawed Naqvi
MEMBERS of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) are meeting in Islamabad today to tackle extremely urgent issues, which includes finding ways to rein in the world from the precipice of … Read More