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Dr Rakhshinda PerveenThe Express Tribune |
Bangladesh's 13th parliamentary elections have concluded, and Tarique Rahman is now poised to become the country's next prime minister....
While noting the jubilations over the renewal of direct flights between Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the opening of an expensive designer store in...
As Bangladesh approaches the 2026 elections, a question yet to be raised by political commentators is: who speaks for the communities that have been...
Should laws against child marriage, domestic violence or harassment be cancelled simply because enforcement is difficult? What is stopping us from...
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...
A number of prominent political figures, including ministers whose lineage traces back to the repressive regimes of Field Marshal Ayub and General...
Shunned and stigmatised in Pakistan, and psychologically as well as politically stranded in Bangladesh, there exists a community rendered stateless by...
I have been seen as naive in understanding how things work. Personally, I have been making professional choices on certain principles and walking away...
Dhaka hosted Dar, Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Senator, on his recent two-day official (not bilateral) visit to Bangladesh....
Pakistan, born against many odds, has survived despite incomprehensible antagonisms over seventy-eight years of independence — no trifling triumph....
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...
In December 2001, the release of Monsoon Wedding brought two enemies and neighbours — India and Pakistan — back into a charmingly ambivalent...
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...
Our world is not only unequal and unjust but also filled with ironies. One particular irony that has resurfaced recently is that militaries, despite...
Violence Against Women (VAW), once treated as a forbidden text, is now a yardstick for measuring national progress. Gone are the days when declaring...
Disparity, deception, denial and dismissal manifest in many ways - especially when it comes to the remarkable sacrifices of Pakistan's selfless...