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‘Cease quoting the law to men with swords’.
The medical model of mental health thrives on individualisation of systemic problems.
THE Balochistan government’s decision to formally merge the over century-old levies force into the Balochistan...
Getting a routine death certificate is a complex process.
OVERTHROWING governments in Latin America has long been the US practice from a familiar playbook. The US has for decades intervened by military...
THE political leadership appears out of sync with the annual wrath of the elements. Scores of trees in Islamabad ...
Pakistan’s own history shows what happens when power claims to stand above law.
The energy inside Siam Paragon, which hosted the event from Dec 12 to 14, was electric.
DARKNESS has descended over next-door Iran, where widespread, violent protests refuse to abate, posing the most serious governance and security...
A NEW report by the UN strips away whatever little ambiguity remained around Israel’s conduct in occupied West Bank. For the first time, a UN...
MCCARTHYISM is a ghost that survives within political and institutional systems. It thrives on witch-hunts, rejects scrutiny, and shields itself...
FLYOVERS are being demolished all over the world because they are considered ugly and they break the openness of the city. The space they occupy is...
I’M surprised the lords ruling my algorithm did not alert me about Jan Komasa’s film Anniversary, or that it didn’t receive the media attention it...
SCHEDULE uncertainty persists at yet another multilateral cricket tournament to be held in South Asia. Once again, it involves India, which has...
SINCE the so-called rules-based order is crumbling in whatever flawed form it existed, those with power are asserting themselves in the most...
PAKISTAN is no stranger to the sharing economy, yet a recent news item about big changes in the country’s...
AFTER 14 years, direct flights between Bangladesh and Pakistan are ready for take-off. Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ first Dhaka to Karachi flight...
An effective criminal justice system evolves.
THE US invasion of Venezuela — however it is ultimately justified in Washington — marks more than a regional rupture. It signals a deeper shift in...
Pakistan must protest at every step India takes towards building works on the western rivers.
ONE would think that everyone in the world knows that nothing is free. Every favour granted, every kindness bestowed has its cost — sometimes the...
PAKISTAN’S troubled relationship with Afghanistan now forms the centre of its security crisis. The International Crisis Group notes the irony that...
THE Sindh government’s decision to launch what its home minister described as a “massive operation” to eliminate bandits in the katcha areas...
IT appears that ‘dialogue’ is fast becoming a buzzword in the federal capital. After both the treasury and...
Women’s daily decisions shape the fertility of our soils.
THE NDMA’s decision to launch a nationwide Infrastructure Audit Programme before the monsoon is a welcome step. It...
FIFTEEN years after the Airblue ED 202 plane crash that killed all 152 people on board, an appellate court in Islamabad has awarded Rs5.4 billion...
Macroeconomic repairs are being carried out by impoverishing the people.
WOMEN’S access to healthcare in Pakistan is shaped not only by poverty, but also by the intersection of documentation, marginalisation and gender....
IT has been said at length before, but bears repeating: the 27th Amendment was a monumental mistake. The same has ...
Absorbing new labour force entrants domestically is increasingly difficult.
Ingredients -K&N’s Nuggets (12 Nuggets) -Nachos as required -Sour cream as required -Salsa as required -Parsley for garnish Method In a bowl add...
THE same question keeps coming up: why don’t you write about the solutions? Let me give two answers here. The first answer is that, in all honesty,...
Is no refuge sacred? Apparently not.
IN Pakistan, the word most commonly used for dance — naach — is often deployed as a form of ridicule. To say someone naach raha hai is rarely...
PAKISTAN’S under-19 cricket team has momentum, and wins, under their belt, as they head into the ICC Under-19 World Cup later this month. A...
THE government’s reported plan of containing the gas sector circular debt of Rs3tr by further raising the petroleum development