When a black swan event hits the world, people often recall it in two ways. One is a public record that is pieced together to become what we call...
Picture of late Begum Nusrat Bhutto. — Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto official website.On October 23, 2011, Begum Nusrat Bhutto’s death...
Palestinians search for victims under rubble after Israeli strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza. — AFP/FileTerrorism is condemnable in any shape or...
Pakistan is a nation focused on the crisis du jour. Crises like ‘climate change, environment and population’ are only mentioned occasionally in...
Navigating multilateralism in September is about the same as negotiating gridlock in New York. As the 78th session of the UN General assembly...
Pathways to resilience are never easy, but as global and national stock takes suggest, it is the only way forward for countries seeking to save...
Air pollution is not Pakistan’s latest killer, but it has certainly become a serial one. For a country with low emissions on a global scale, our...
As the planet warms to red every summer, the era of the Anthropocene, or the man-made century, is turning out to be an existential challenge to...
Every summer, Pakistan braces for flooding as the monsoon season and growing summer heatwaves cascade to trigger a series of flood emergencies all...
The global climate crisis has left no country untouched, but it is the developing world that is facing the most severe impacts. For countries like...
As Pakistan continued reeling from the exogenous shock of accelerated climate impacts, it also became clear to many of us that global warming was...
A small anecdote sums up the cognitive confusion and lack of social or political investment about the environment and climate change in high places...
As Pakistan goes into the 27th Conference of Parties at Sharm-al-Shaikh, Egypt, it is important to address a few challenges squarely, while...
For five long days, we watched with bated breath as five honourable judges of the Supreme Court conducted inquisitorial proceedings on the suo-motu...
When Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he wanted the PPP to embark on a long march through the length of Pakistan, from Karachi to Islamabad, in a party...
In the policy permafrost of Indo-Pak relations, not much is expected to move towards resolution through diplomatic engagement. There is no formal...
The growing risk of an unstable Afghanistan is not a new worry. Despite the fact that the Taliban regime is unable to bridge the gap between...
As Pakistan lurches through its worst wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, talk of peace with India fuels a fresh round of speculation about prospects and...
For Kashmiris, a string of black days punctuate the twilight of daily state atrocities that now define their lives. August 5, 2019 is only one of...
As the China-India conflict in the Himalayas blows hot and blows cold, Islamabad’s studied reticence has so far only signaled quiet alarm. While...
The writer is the PPP parliamentary leader in the Senate, president of the Jinnah Institute, and served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the US and as...
The writer is the PPP parliamentary leader in the Senate, president of the Jinnah Institute, and served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the...
A global pandemic that moves with lightning speed to spread its deadly payload across borders, communities and class, demands a reconsideration at...
As women celebrate their womanhood on March 8, and bond in solidarity to define the rights to their lives and choices, many people in Pakistan still...
Like many parts of the world, Pakistan is going through a populist moment. A key trait of such campaigns is big-ticket promises of transformational...
Pakistan’s children are its future. Yet not only is this generation put to work in homes, fields and factories, they are also the silent objects...
The heinous murder of social media star Qandeel Baloch has triggered a long-overdue wave of introspection in Pakistan about how it treats its women....
In the middle of a corruption scandal linked to the Panama Papers disclosures, Pakistan’s embattled government has recently been going through...
