Empowerment Begins at Home

June 21, 2020 News DeskArticles

Qaanita Shahzad Hats off for South Asia’s domestic culture! Men being the beings responsible to earn for the family assume it as their only responsibility. I am not denying the fact that to earn is not a piece of cake,…

Online-Isation of Education

June 14, 2020 News DeskArticles

Uzair Salman Online education may for now be the only option at the disposal of governments across the globe given the near-global lockdown, but it comes with a cost no government, especially one governing a developing nation, is ready to…

COVID-19 and Education for Students in Peripheries

June 14, 2020 News DeskArticles

Muhammad Bezinjo The outbreak of the contagious COVID-19 virus in Pakistan has disrupted social life and the economy of the country. The pandemic has also affected the education sector and universities were forced to adopt the online lecture system. This…

The Law Does Not Believe in Justice, Even if You Do

June 7, 2020 News DeskArticles

From the unheard and ignored in Waziristan, to the murdered in Karachi to the disappeared in Balochistan, we have seen the cruel face of the law itself, writes Bakhtiar Ahmed

Make Love Radical Again!

June 7, 2020 News DeskArticles

Wafa Asher The moment we are inhabiting is unprecedented in ways that I find difficult to articulate entirely. There is chaos and upheaval, death and uncertainty, sparks followed by fires of hope, and a slow rumbling of ‘this-ain’t-it’ building into…

Experiencing Discrimination

June 7, 2020 News DeskArticles

Young people have not developed fiendish racial views in vacuum, writes Usama Malick

Black Lives Matter and Resistance

June 7, 2020 News DeskArticles

Many people know Martin Luther King as having led the march against racism, but hardly any are aware that he was organizing a march against poverty, for socialist policies to redistribute wealth, writes Fatima Shahzad

Pregnant activist detained in India under draconian UAPA law

June 7, 2020 News DeskArticles

Malaika Chishty Safoora Zargar is a 26-year-old Indian-Muslim student activist from Jammu and Kashmir, widely known for her activism in the Citizenship Amendment Act protests. She is an M.Phil student of Jamia Millia Islamia and media coordinator of the Jamia…

Politics of Looting

June 7, 2020 News DeskArticles

Nonviolence and the civil rights movement won the battle, but lost the war, as it did not have an impact on the prejudices that existed within the system, writes Musa Syed

The Historical Revolt

June 7, 2020 News DeskArticles

Lutfullah Khan The other day, I saw a video circulating on social media where a small girl sitting on her uncle’s shoulder was chanting a slogan with an innocent smile on her face: “My dad changed the world.” She was…