Central Asian regimes and power transit models
Modern Central Asian regimes remain autocratic, but are they to become hereditary quasi monarchies in the near future? At
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Opinion
How will COVID-19 affect global food supplies?
A Pakistani worker in Karachi sorts wheat grain on April 7 to make flour to keep people fed during the
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Online classes and woes of GB students
By Adnan Haider In the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak, the students have been told by the Higher Education Commission
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Judicial murder of Bhutto
Today is the 41st anniversary of the hanging of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan By Waseem
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Hunza state at twilight
History remains the slave of victors only when people internalize the master’s version of history. History can be salvaged, retrieved
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Ventilators or testing suspects: what is the need of the hour?
The pandemic-turned-catastrophe has hit the world in less than three months, which nobody was expecting when it first erupted in
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World after the coronavirus
By Yuval Noah Harari Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions
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Humans of pandemic
To our healthcare workers: we are grateful for your service and sorry for our collective inaction. by Faizaan Qayyum The
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Wuhan: a reflection from ground zero
by Suwaibah Bilal It was a chilly January night. Dinnertime in Wuhan had just acquired a new hint of umami.
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COVID-19: govt scrambles on lockdown
by Mariam Bokhari & Ayesha Mushtaq When a global pandemic burns through a country it first tests both its leadership
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The ‘dinosaurs’ that escaped extinction
| By Shafqat Aziz | The students of history have the luxury of travelling back to eras and epochs ranging
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Interpreting ‘Me Too’ Movement for Pakistan
By Anita Bakhtiar If you want an honest and surprising look into what the ‘Me Too’ Movement constitutes without
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Rethinking development agenda
Pakistan is an extremely patriarchal society … it’s not surprising that the women have never had the kind of visibility that
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Pakistan’s social media rules disastrous for freedom of expression
By Michael Karanicolas Pakistan’s newly published Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020 (the Rules) pose a serious danger for free speech in that country.
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Protecting Pakistan’s children
By Anita Bakhtiar As a citizen born in the 1980s, I grew up watching Kashmir Solidarity Day parades and looking
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