HAH Special Report ISLAMABAD: Suppression of critical thinking and scientific enquiry have given rise to the current social and political malaise in Pakistan, says Prof Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, a famed physicist and social activist. He held the establishment-centred feudal dominated political system for the intellectual decay and suffocation in the country. “Pakistani society is afflicted by a culture of rote-learning …

Pakistani leftwing working-class women organized rallies in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi for equal space, rights and against patriarchy, exploitation and religious extremism HAH Special Report Islamabad Women organizations around the world mobilised Thursday to celebrate International Women’s Day with Pakistani activists mostly socialist and working-class organisations marching in Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi against rising violence, capitalism, feudal and tribal customs, …

High Asia Herald Report ISLAMABAD In the neonatal intensive care department of an Islamabad hospital, scrawny infants struggle for survival — victims of a vacuum in resources and education in the country with the highest newborn mortality rate in the world. “In Pakistan, a baby dies every second minute,” says Haider Shirazi, head of the neonatal department at the Pakistan …

Special Correspondent Lawyers of Gilgit-Baltistan held a protest rally outside Chief Court Gilgit on Friday against the arrest of a senior lawyer and socialist leader Ehsan Ali. They chanted slogans against the police officers and district administration for instituting FIRs against their leader on trumped-up charges and subsequently putting him behind bars. They marched from the city to the chief …

Ammar Rashid To rescue Pakistan’s crumbling education system, students, as the primary stakeholders of the system, must be allowed to speak, peacefully organise and have a say in decision-making about matters that determine their future The police brutality against students at Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) on Monday was a vivid illustration of Pakistani authorities’ approach to students — one reeking of …

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar AND so Nawaz, Maryam and Safdar have been indicted. All while reconciliation between Maryam and Hamza is in the works. And all while Safdar’s hateful speech in the National Assembly continues to create ripples inside and outside the N-League inner circle. For good measure, Imran’s troubles in the Supreme Court are also in the headlines. Will we …

Correspondent GILGIT, Oct 6: The federal government has approved the establishment of a special protection unit (SPU) in Gilgit-Baltistan for providing security to foreigners working on the mega China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project as well as tourists visiting the region. “The steps are being taken to foil the conspiracies being hatched by the country’s enemies against the CPEC project,” GB’s …

Amir Hussain Nihal There are fairies, demons, witches and flying saucers in the valleys surrounded by the gigantic mountains and snowy peaks of Hunza. This is how grandmothers used to narrate stories to their grandchildren in Hunza valley not very long ago. But this practice has now slowly faded, leaving an unquenchable thirst in the inquisitive mind to explore the …

Islamabad, Aug 25: Pakistan’s population has surged by more than half to 207 million, according to provisional results of the country’s first census in almost two decades released by the statistics board Friday. Once confirmed in the final report, Pakistan could be set to overtake Brazil as the world’s fifth most populous country, according to statistics on the US Census Bureau …

News Desk The University of London (UOL) has not allowed a private Pakistani TV channel for using its venue for a session with former military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf, says GEO News channel. The university has stated that it will not allow All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) President Pervez Musharraf to use its venue to take part in a question …

News  Desk ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: American-British Mountaineer #Vanessa #O’Brien, who scaled K2 last month, said on Tuesday that the warmth and love she received in Pakistan was matchless stating, “I love Pakistan’s people more than its mountains.” Addressing a news conference at a local hotel, Vanessa said she had found Pakistani people loving and caring. “I love Pakistan, its people …

The Interpreter By MAX FISHER and AMANDA TAUB  Pakistan’s latest ouster of an elected leader looks, at least on the surface, refreshingly democratic. Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister, was ordered out by the Supreme Court rather than the military, which had cut short his two previous terms. He was removed over corruption charges that are backed up by substantial evidence. Accountability and …

Tariq Masood Malik The bad bleeds. And that which bleeds — unless plugged — leads in the news business. Plugging is what we have been badly bad at historically. History cannot be disowned. Or can it be? Now what cannot be disowned must be faced. Owning up a muddled history is made easy when we look for some small little …

Islamabad: Every year during the winter season a number of families in Pakistan suffocate to death due to keeping the gas heaters on for the whole night during sleep and it is so mainly because the majority of our population is unaware of the precautionary measures needed to avoid losses while using gas heaters. Gas heaters release emissions such as …