Luavut Zahid is Pakistan Today’s Special Correspondent. Her work places an emphasis on conflict and disasters, human rights, religious and sexual minorities, climate change, development and governance. She also serves as the Pakistan Correspondent to the Crisis Response Journal. She can be reached at:[email protected], and she tweets at: @luavut.
On redefining harassment for the online realm A few days ago, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy took to Twitter to raise the issue of harassment – one involving her sister and an unnamed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/11/06/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-and-the-fault-in-our-digital-spaces/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Moving beyond the conversation Just a couple of days ago, the #MeToo campaign, which began in the western part of the world, found its way to Pakistan. Thousands of women
Pakistan is in trouble. And a lot of it. Safdar believes that Ahmadis work against the country’s interest. He takes issue with Quaid-e-Azam University renaming its physics centre after Abdus Salam. And<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/10/15/can-pakistan-continue-to-afford-its-hatred-for-ahmadis/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Arts / EntertainmentIf The CariCature Shop has caught your eye online then you have probably been witness to some amazing graphics, brilliant illustrations and some desi flavor.The mastermind behind the project is Ra
NATIONALPPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari asks for honest assessment of the many failures that had taken place under NAPMQM leader says counter narrative that is needed to eradicate extremism is not there
LAHOREA year after the attack on Army Public School (APS) Peshawar, parents feel no safer sending their children to school.Pakistan Today conducted a survey across major cities in Pakistan to see how pe
FEATUREDWill the public stand for more taxes; can it afford to? Taxes -- the ruling party can’t seem to run the country with them, and if it doesn’t add Rs40 billion more of them, it won’t b
FEATUREDDid the party fail the democratic process? After becoming the second strongest party in Pakistan after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after the 2013 general elections, many believe
LAHOREUnder the Antiquities Act 1975, no development schemes and new constructions can be undertaken near a heritage site, unless a distance of 200 hundred feet is maintained. The Orange Line seems to be on
FEATUREDPakistan has to learn from the experiences of others The 7.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled Pakistan on October 26 left 271 dead, and obliterated 35,491 houses -- and counting. While the n
FEATUREDWhy can’t the two nations just get along? Ever since their inception Pakistan and India have continued to enjoy their perpetual stay at the loggerheads village. The two have gone from sim
FEATUREDNot all bad news? After seesawing over dialogue with India for the umpteenth time Pakistan is indeed back to square one. It’s doing no better on the Afghanistan front with Ghani thumbing his
