opinion
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School closures: the sequel
Dr Ayesha Razzaque
The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University.Mid-March this year, the government took the decision to close educational...
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Decolonise the IMF
Jason Hickel
Most people assume that inequality between the global South and the global North has been declining over the past few decades. After all, colonialism is behind us, and surely poorer countries are...
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Elections in Myanmar
Khalid Bhatti
Myanmar’s parliamentary elections took place on November 8, but Rohingya Muslims and some other ethnic groups were not allowed to participate in them. This was the first election after the...
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Terror by India
Mir Adnan Aziz
As expected, India ‘rejected’ the Pakistani dossier cataloging only some of India’s terror machinations. Kulbhashan Jadhav, a serving senior RAW operative, has spilled the beans about his...
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The eastern question - Part II
Fahd Humayun
Will peace with India ever be possible? Before the ascent of Narendra Modi, there were certainly a greater number of optimists in Pakistan who believed that not only was peace between the two...
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Greeks bearing gifts
Kamal Azfar
The current debate on electoral reforms is an exercise in futility, as a glance at the history of elections in Pakistan would show.The present government has no genuine cause to seek electoral...