Opinion & Analysis

James Gunn's new Superman film may have been written years ago, but its emotional punch has landed squarely in the midst of one of the most horrific humanitarian crises of...

Honour killings happen every day in Pakistan. But only a few make it into a police file. Even fewer stir public outrage. Suddenly officials jolt awake, stage media dramas, hound...

Buildings speak - not with words, but through the cracks that snake across their walls, ceilings, slabs and beams. They speak through peeling plaster, blistered paint, rusted pipelines and termite-eaten...

Three years ago, in 2022, Pakistan experienced some of the worst floods seen in a while. Well over a thousand precious lives were lost, countless homes and communities were destroyed,...

Former British prime minister Lord Palmerston, during a speech in the House of Common on March 1, 1848, said: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies....

Taxes hold a paradox: paying them breeds resentment toward system; evading them makes system resent you. There is no escape. Ancient Egypt (3000 BCE) pioneered taxation with Corvée (free labour...

Indiscriminate employment of power and force, aslosh with egoism, vendetta or propaganda, fails to attain anything constructive. Power and force play an active, binding and controlling role in human interactions,...

China often prefers to move quietly. Yet, as the world undergoes what many describe as the most profound transformation in a century, Beijing is steadily expanding its global footprint. The...

The global order constructed with considerable care by the Western leadership that won for their nations the Second World War is now under great stress. We are now witnessing the...

The scars of domestic abuse often etch themselves into young and developing minds. A recent primary research conducted in the various districts of Karachi investigates how domestic violence and cousin...