Awami Workers Party in collaboration with Senior Journalists Forum is holding a public dialogue to offer a national alternative approach to Pakistan’s economic crisis next week Herald Report Pakistan is set to begin its 13th International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme since the late 1980s, purportedly to curb twin deficits and structurally adjust the economy to ‘promote long term growth, …
Aziz Ali Dad thinks about the flux and fixity of ideas over the past two millennia by Aziz Ali Dad When the Indian Subcontinent came under the rule of the British Empire, it came into contact with the ideas dominating the European intellectual scene. Discussion about the Enlightenment and its by-product modernity was made necessary in India by the need for …
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Many readers will recognise that the title of this column is borrowed from an online marketplace that is increasingly popular in Pakistan. This refrain is emblematic of the ideas that dominate our society and world, ideas that most of us endorse uncritically on a daily basis. My question is: what’s the difference between the slogan ‘Bech de!’ …
Displaced from their land by multinational mining companies, nomadic herders defied the odds to preserve their heritage for future generations by Rod Austin Just 10 years ago, the district of Khanbogd, in southern Mongolia’s Omnogovi province, was a barely known region of eastern Asia. That changed with the discovery of gold and copper deposits below the seemingly endless Gobi desert, home to a …
Professional bodies of teachers, students, workers, doctors and political activists reject IMF’s bailout prescriptions, cut in PSDP Herald Report Academics, students, workers, young doctors and progressive activists have rejected the proposed plan of privatisation of key sectors of education, health and cut in education budget. The recent decisions of privatizing health sectors and cut in budget for Higher Education Commission …
The stories of murdered women are recorded with grim regularity in one and half inches of a single newspaper column Mohammed Hanif You can find the news about Pakistan’s war on women buried deep inside the metro pages of Urdu newspapers. I stumbled upon it a few years ago. I noticed that I could pick up my newspaper and almost …
Anayat Baig tells a tragic story of neglect, inequality and superbugs Pakistan is facing world’s largest extremely drug resistant (XDR) typhoid outbreak. More than 5,000 cases were reported from Hyderabad and Karachi in the first phase. To give the reader an idea of the rise of the scale of this outbreak consider the following: Some 11 cases were reported in …
Harris Khalique’s new English poetry collection documents people’s suffering Farman Ali Noted poet Harris Khalique’s new collection of poetry in English hits the stands. The book “No Fortunes to Tell” documents personal experiences and human sufferings — from Waziristan to Balochistan to Aleppo and Yemen and evolution of his craft in English. “It is the culmination of a decade of …
Baam-e-Dunya/Herald Report GILGIT: Political circles and lawyers of Gilgit-Baltistan have expressed reservations about the appointment of top judge of the region. They rejected the decision of Prime Minister Imran Khan government and warned to launch a movement if it was not withdrawn. In a letter to the heads of all representative bodies of Gilgit-Baltistan lawyers former president of the Supreme …
A study on the little-known high-altitude bird in the pheasant family, the Tibetan Snowcock. The study uses reports on images from camera traps to describe its behavior. It also describes the bird’s preference for higher elevation, living close to glaciers and the snow line. “Global climate change has had significant effects on animal distribution and population dynamics in mid-latitude alpine areas, but …
