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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

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Covering Bangladesh vote & the history we still avoid

Bangladesh's 13th parliamentary elections have concluded, and Tarique Rahman is now poised to become the country's next prime minister....

17.02.2026 150

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

The abandoned Pakistanis of 1971

While noting the jubilations over the renewal of direct flights between Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the opening of an expensive designer store in...

04.02.2026 20

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Bangladesh — election, erasure, empathy and victory

As Bangladesh approaches the 2026 elections, a question yet to be raised by political commentators is: who speaks for the communities that have been...

22.01.2026 40

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Dowry bill and the politics of 'unworkable' laws

Should laws against child marriage, domestic violence or harassment be cancelled simply because enforcement is difficult? What is stopping us from...

09.01.2026 90

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Thank you Sindh Assembly: recognition must go beyond

What is more thrilling than a blockbuster thriller is life itself. Just when I had resigned myself to imagining that the plight of stranded Pakistanis...

25.12.2025 40

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

The house of affluents and the screens of hypocrisy

A number of prominent political figures, including ministers whose lineage traces back to the repressive regimes of Field Marshal Ayub and General...

22.11.2025 20

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

The continual suffering of the Biharis

Shunned and stigmatised in Pakistan, and psychologically as well as politically stranded in Bangladesh, there exists a community rendered stateless by...

23.10.2025 30

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Empathy — where are you?

I have been seen as naive in understanding how things work. Personally, I have been making professional choices on certain principles and walking away...

01.10.2025 30

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

End of euphoria?

Dhaka hosted Dar, Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Senator, on his recent two-day official (not bilateral) visit to Bangladesh....

11.09.2025 100

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Pakistanis under rubble: here and there

Pakistan, born against many odds, has survived despite incomprehensible antagonisms over seventy-eight years of independence — no trifling triumph....

22.08.2025 40

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

From Dhaka To Bajaur: Lessons Pakistan Refuses To Learn

14.08.2025 40

The Friday Times

Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

From citizens to collaborators to collateral damage

What is the cost of denial and non-closure in the face of an ongoing genocide? The plight of the fourth- and fifth-generation descendants of nearly...

31.07.2025 30

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Muslim mayors in the secular West: rewriting inclusion

In December 2001, the release of Monsoon Wedding brought two enemies and neighbours — India and Pakistan — back into a charmingly ambivalent...

19.07.2025 70

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Before 18 is not a crime, after 18 is not a cure: rethinking

Amidst the fête of a so-called HerStoric moment not only by Pakistani feminists but anyone with simple common sense, I am once again mentioning the...

16.06.2025 40

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Sindoor, sexism and symbolism

Our world is not only unequal and unjust but also filled with ironies. One particular irony that has resurfaced recently is that militaries, despite...

21.05.2025 50

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

From Gen Zia to Gen Z — a timeline of VAW

Violence Against Women (VAW), once treated as a forbidden text, is now a yardstick for measuring national progress. Gone are the days when declaring...

24.04.2025 60

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

Omoiyari for Biharis in Bangladesh's ghettos

Disparity, deception, denial and dismissal manifest in many ways - especially when it comes to the remarkable sacrifices of Pakistan's selfless...

15.12.2024 2

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen