Opinion & Analysis

This picks up where my earlier piece 'Born unwelcome' left off. After the unwelcome birth of a girl comes her next unforgivable crime: the right to be educated. And what...

I was once a graduate student in a Texas university and later for a brief period of time a PhD candidate here at the University of Houston. During lectures and...

Something unexpected happened after Indian Operation Sindoor and Pakistan's agile response through Operation Bunyan Marsus. The four-day skirmish left India red-faced despite its massive media onslaught, projecting the outcome as...

The federal government's recent move to revive the jirga system in the newly merged districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is not just regressive, but also unconstitutional and dangerously reminiscent of the colonial-era...

Two doctors were having a leisurely lunch on the banks of a river. While eating they noticed a body floating in the water. Both jumped in the water and dragged...

Jinnah saw a macabre future for his founded refuge for some Muslims of India; not only has it come to pass, worse still lies ahead. No words can describe the...

The Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has recently unveiled a proposal to establish a new "Regulatory Force", a move that at first glance appears bold and assertive. It arrives wrapped in the...

At the turn of the century, it became abundantly clear that China was on its way to dethrone the US as the world's sole superpower. No superpower would let its...

For decades now, scientists and weather experts have reached the conclusion that observable global weather changes have been caused by human activity. Science that arrived at that conclusion is simple....

In Pakistan, serious attention to environmental pollution began in the early 1990s. The first major law, the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act of 1997, introduced a framework to monitor pollution. It...