Honour killings in North Waziristan

May 31, 2020 News DeskArticles

Numan Mehsud urges the government to take action against those who are flouting the law

Rethinking Healthcare and Medical Education

May 17, 2020 News DeskArticles

Muhammad Sohaib Rehmani As the world goes through a pandemic, there have been talks about how things would change after all of this is over. Two lessons that the developed and developing world have learnt during this crisis: there is…

18th Amendment and the Right to Education

May 17, 2020 News DeskArticles

Hamza Wyne There is a lot of debate about the 18th amendment in the national discourse these days. A neglected aspect of this discussion is the fact that apart from bringing reforms in the political sphere of the country, this amendment…

Hope Against Hope

May 17, 2020 News DeskArticles

Faris Ali I once visited the slums of Lahore with some of my leftist friends. I was not astonished to see that people living there have nothing – they survive on one meal a day, maybe two when they are…

Toxic Meme Culture —a Fashionable Tool for the Unfashionable Sexist Agenda

May 10, 2020 News DeskArticles

Women are being constantly targeted on the internet under the guise of casual humour, writes Fatima Khan

Unruly Children

May 10, 2020 News DeskArticles

Ali Hamza States are a conglomeration of people of all sorts. Some are in cahoots with the state for whatever its policy might be, while others are dissidents, not entirely accepting all these policies. The modern democratic system has a…

How COVID-19 has impacted working class people

May 3, 2020 News DeskArticles

COVID-19 has thrown up a gigantic challenge for labour across the world, writes Muhammad Azam Nagra

Irrfan Khan – South Asia’s Finest

May 3, 2020 News DeskArticles

Ramis Shah Daryaa bhi mein, Darakht bhi mein… Jhelum bhi mein, Chinaar bhi mein Dair bhi hoon, haram bhi hoon Shia bhi hoon, Sunni bhi hoon, main hoon Pandit…

COVID-19 and the case for Student Unions

May 3, 2020 News DeskArticles

Salman Sikandar As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Pakistan, all universities began sending fee notifications to students, even though the so-called online classes they were conducting cannot be in any measure be equated with real classes. Some universities went…

Online Classes: A Big Flop

April 26, 2020 News DeskArticles

People who study at public sector universities come from low-income families and often do not have internet facilities in their towns, writes Usama Malick