Rabia Ahmed

Sexual harassment allegations must be taken seriously; they’re probably trueThat must be the song ringing in the Pakistan People’s Party’s ears these days, a song that fits neatly with the res

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Can the USA surmount the challenge of race?Freedom, a positive change in attitude, and better laws come about neither easily nor by force, and certainly not by keeping people in ignorance of the f

How do we manange the next time?How unexpected is life that within a few months the world …the entire world is taken over and the life of all its people changed… perhaps forever… by a mi

The Centre and provinces must stop quarrelling with each otherThis episode of covid-19 has yet again highlighted one thing above all others throughout the world, and certainly in Pakistan. It

Covid-19 has much to say about how  we liveMaulana Tariq Jamil’s reading of the message behind covid-19 in which he blamed ‘shameless’ women and as a result of that God’s wrath for co

Covid-19 is making us face uncomfortable questionsWomen have often dreamed of an opportunity to put men in their shoes, to see how far they can walk in them. That opportunity it seems is here.

Maulana Edhi didn’t give to the government for a reason, which is still thereThere is a process involved in donating money. Most people give tips and the odd few hundred to someone who appea

Ventilators must be made carefullyWith cases of the novel coronavirus increasing in the country as well as around the world the government of Pakistan is now encouraging the local production of ve

A look beyond the pandemic“Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X“Unless we see the new moon through these, our lowly eyes, neither the joys of Eid nor the mo

Emergancy measures show what should be done routinelyHigh morale among the people of a country leads to hope and confidence and provides citizens with an incentive to work towards the future.

There have been previous pandemicsThe world is not new to pandemics. 165 to 180 AD it witnessed the Antonine Plague, probably smallpox. It killed about 5 million people. The Bubonic Plague in

The world-state is still far awayIt may be a joke that UF President Donald Trump imagines Schengen to be a place ‘somewhere out there in China’, but he may well do so, given the rest of hi