KARACHI: Over the past week, the hashtag #SindhRejectsForcedConversions has been trending in Pakistan. The hashtag, which was initiated by the Twitter users largely encompassing the youth of Sindh, aims to generate awareness…
LAHORE: On October 14, a harassment scandal surfaced in Balochistan University in Quetta, when the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested security and surveillance officers for blackmailing students. The FIA had been asked…
Demonetisation jarred the BJP just as much as it had hammered the economy The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing elections across five states earlier this month, most notably Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and…
Running out of time, indeed! During the UN Climate Change Conference 2018, COP24, currently underway in Katowice, Poland, PM Imran Khan’s Advisor on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said “we are running…
Of course there are few better guilty pleasures than finding reassurances in other’s failures As December begins and the year 2018 draws to a close, many of us might be looking forward…
Many sides of the ‘encounter specialist’ It is only recently that the other side of the police encounters has become a part of the mainstream narrative on human rights in South Asia.…
But his world! On Nov 2, US President Donald Trump tweeted an image of himself captioned ‘Sanctions Army Coming November 5’ in an obvious, and outlandish, use of Game of Thrones imagery…
And how it’ll get it Prime Minister Imran Khan left a burning country back home to visit China last week just so he could get a bailout package along the lines of…
President Arif Alvi met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday amidst a crisis in the Middle East that involves the country that Erdogan rules and the country that Pakistan just…
A story of Afghan scholars Over four million people cast their votes in the parliamentary election in Afghanistan over the weekend, despite the violence that ensued. That is, around half of the…
Russia’s old attitude The long ongoing proxy warfare in Ukraine formally entered the religious realm this week when the Russian Orthodox Church severed relations with Patriarchate of Constantinople – the historical seat…
Pakistan needing seven wickets on the fifth day of a UAE Test to win the match, with runs superfluous, is as nailed on a position to win as any in all of…
Just whose money runs the world? The Pakistani rupee retraced an historic low this week, touching 138 against the US dollar. Given the International Monetary Fund’s conditions, the currency is expected to…
The ‘mother of all recessions’? By the end of September 2008, Lehman Brothers had collapsed and the then US President George W Bush was speaking of an “issue in the Wall Street”.…
LAHORE: The Asia Cup exit understandably has had its ramifications and the aftershocks being felt in the statements coming out of the Pakistani camp. It isn’t particularly encouraging when the captain comes…
LAHORE: Surprise knockouts and early tournament exits can happen to the best of sides. This on its own should never be used to conjure knee-jerk reactions or call for a mass exodus.…
Musharraf’s legacy? Just when one thought events inside Dubai International Stadium couldn’t get any worse with India pounding the national cricket side, one saw Pervez Musharraf in the VIP box enjoying the…
