The writer is an anthropologist and development professional.
What was the most important event of the year 2022? It was certainly not the ouster of Imran Khan’s government. The no-confidence motion that...
While Pakistan prepares to face new challenges and adopt green technology on a large scale, it must have a sharp focus on gender inclusivity and...
Has the PDM government successfully reversed roles in a game that Imran Khan played better than cricket for eight years? In children’s versions of...
The opposition alliance that outfoxed and outmanoeuvred Imran Khan in the political arena has no clue how the master narrator has weaved the web of...
Pakistani ulema and their alma maters are facing an unprecedented challenge to their authority and prestige in society. As if the bombshell of the...
If nothing else, the ruling party is keeping us all entertained in these depressing days of a global pandemic. In the first fortnight of the month...
Between the relentless heat of summer and the ruthless cold of winter, it was these very days of autumn last year when Maulana had arrived in...
Are we hurtling to another crisis, if we are not in it already, at a time when our economic situation remains bleak and there are hardly any...
From heroes to zeroes, lawyers have come a long way since the movement for the restoration of Justice Iftekhar Chaudhury in 2007. The movement was...
The PTI has hit a jackpot and yet it is behaving like a shy bride. The amount, $248 million, received by Pakistan through Britain’s National Crime...
How long can a major youth-bulge country, led by a self-serving power elite, remain immune from a youth-led political turmoil? It is not about 'if'...
We are happily on the way to becoming a pious nation – yet again. And we have happily found a pious leader – yet again. His followers did not...
Activists of JUI-F lodge a sit-in protest on Indus Highway as part of Plan B of Azadi March. -ONLINEMaulana's brigade has lifted the siege of...
“You are the protector of wisdom. Almighty Lord! Our helper and protector ever, restore to us the right and privilege of unhindered and free...
Maulana has pulled the biggest of all the contemporary dharnas organised since 2013. Like the two earlier organizers, Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri,...
Why should an elected government of a democratic country be bothered about a few thousand protesters marching to the capital?How can one march or...
Maulana, for once, should thank his arch-enemy for reviving his political fortunes. Kaptaan has one again put Maulana at the centre-stage of...
Imran Khan has proved that he can make a great wartime leader. No other politician can weave such perfect narratives, communicate them so...
The English medium is cruel because it is meant to create a class that is one notch above the Urdu medium- a class that can claim best economic and...
Even a lay person can see that Article 149 is totally out of context in Karachi’s situation. Even if this Article carried such farfetched meanings...
