‘Inequality destroying economies, societies’
Covid-19 has exposed the myth of the neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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Conflict
Resisting power structures that keep colonialism alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past. by LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE
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As US moves to exit Afghanistan, rivals prepare to swoop in
News Desk The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was backed by most countries in the region, who shared the
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Decolonising aid, again
‘The unfinished business of decolonisation is the original sin of the modern aid industry.’ by Paul Currion This year calls
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History of human violence explains how society shaped killing
‘Most parts of the world are safer than ever before. But a few are probably the most violent that human
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Opinion: Pakistan and the new great game
Senator Sherry Rehman Is the China-India conflict in the Himalayas blows hot and blows cold, Islamabad’s studied reticence has so
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10th NFC Award and its challenges
By Wajidul Islam The National Finance Commission (NFC) is a resource-sharing mechanism between the federal government and federating units. It
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Pakistan’s great digital divide
A new reliance on virtual life in the COVID-19 era has laid bare the lack of internet access for much
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Native Americans shut down pipeline
There is a lesson for the people of Gilgit-Baltistan to learn in the remarkable victory of a native American tribe
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World losing fight against poverty: UN academic
‘We squandered a decade’ says UN’s outgoing special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Goal to eradicate poverty by 2030
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Hoodbhoy resigns from FC College
The renowned physicist took the decision after the FCC administration termed his contract ‘non-renewable’ After an eight-year-long association, Professor Dr
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‘New techs must serve, not hinder, right to protest’
News Desk The internet and new digital tools are being manipulated as never before to infringe on people’s right to
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Feminism in Central Asia: what went wrong?
Zulaykho Usmanova addressing Women Forum in Dushanbe Feminism is not adequately perceived in Central Asian societies, writes Lolisanam Ulugova in
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Contextualizing rural development
In this essay, Amir Hussain critiques the so-called Green Revolution, its myths of rural transformation in the Global South with
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‘Are we animals?’: migrants bear brunt of lockdown
Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the
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