Remshay Ahmed is a political realist by profession and a pessimist by choice. She can be reached at [email protected]
ColumnsFirst step towards a massive clean-up? Glued to television sets, the frequent change of airports, airplanes and postal codes had the entire country cheering for a fate-known. My generation wasn’t young enough<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/18/friday-the-13th-debacle/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsHas the US bitten off more than it can chew? With the hegemonic world order shifted in its favour, the US has always been at the centre of most states’ foreign policies.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/15/americas-era-of-casus-belli/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsAnybody thinking about climate change?Pakistan has had the misfortune of being created at the time when the world had just experienced World War II, having a series of dictatorships when the w
ColumnsAnd why aren’t we worried? Much like Amir Khan’s hit film Lagaan where poverty-stricken villagers desperately wait for rain to grow crops as a way of clearing debt; the mid-century tale is<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/06/27/wheres-the-water-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsAn end to TTP?The death of Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the mastermind behind assassination attempt on Malala, and massacres at APS Peshawar and Bacha Khan Univ
ColumnsWhy so much religious persecution? On 31st May 2018 the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a statement labelling Pakistan as a ‘country of particular concern’ with regards to religious<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/06/07/how-much-farther-from-jinnahs-vision/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsMuslim nations continue to fail It would suffice to say that when it comes to making ideological alliances, Muslim countries, bounded by same ethos, have failed to emerge as a unique theologically-motivated<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/05/25/the-jerusalem-test/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsThe short-sightedness of liberalism as a school of thought and its much shorter half-life The opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem and the opening of fire on protesting Palestinians aren’t events<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/05/18/a-narrative-for-palestinians/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsIt is time we create a need for greater goals With general elections scheduled to be held two months from now, political campaigns are in full swing. If these elections are carried<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/05/11/on-a-dissipated-collective-conscience/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsOf negotiated peaceThe world woke up to what seemed like a new, and more peaceful world on 27th April 2018 – the two Koreas had reached an agreement to negotiate peace and put an end to the
ColumnsTraumas of children in a lawless landThere’s always a lot of debate surrounding dominant narratives. Lately we’ve heard too much about gender stereotyping and a general call for equal oppo
ColumnsRecognising Pashtuns as our own The capital has been roaring for some time now. Droves of people have laid besiege and plagued the state’s institution for one political gain or the other.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/14/uneasy-lies-the-head-that-wears-a-mazari-hat/" title="Read more" >...</a>
