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Shabana Mahfooz
Shabana Mahfooz

  • September 19, 2020

    Time to end the patriarchy

    The country has exploded with anger over a crime so heinous, so barbaric, that it is difficult to capsule the emotions in words. Regrettably, the...

  • September 06, 2020

    The city that was Karachi

    The biggest news these days has been Karachi. The first capital of Pakistan, the largest metropolitan city of Pakistan, the hub of financial,...

  • July 26, 2020

    Of churches and mosques

    As Pakistan hands over a 200-year-old gurdwara to the Sikh community, a monument of religious importance in Turkey is embroiled in an issue dividing...

  • June 02, 2019

    Right to daycare

    A member of the Balochistan Assembly was recently forced to leave the assembly for bringing her baby in. The incident has once again highlighted the...

  • April 07, 2019

    Vulnerable to abuse

    In the month that just ended, a man in Faisalabad was sentenced to death for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl. The case is just one of...

  • November 27, 2018

    IT’S HER CHOICE

    A piece of clothing that should ideally be a matter of freedom of choice and expression, has sadly been heavily politicised, nationally and...

  • November 06, 2018

    The suffering maids

    Hunger, joblessness and penniless, are some of the few conditions which force men and women......

  • May 19, 2018

    Education on the backbench

    The issue of increase in tuition fees by private schools is not new and has been debated upon much in the past. But with the devolution of education...

  • May 05, 2018

    The show must go on

    The year was 2002 and what Pakistanis witnessed on their television screens was unlike anything they had laid their eyes on before. On the then...