Opinion & Analysis

Modi's madman Hindutva ideology and political extremism has taken over Indian cricket. The gentleman's game has been turned into a third class Indian soap with its characteristic overdramatic, zooming in...

I have two key takeaways from the speeches of world leaders and the events unfolding on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly session. The first is on...

Though many structural and institutional factors influence and regulate individual and group behaviour in a socio-political setting, one of the key entities of social control is the group of people...

When Lahore and Delhi choke under the same winter smog and their northern mountains groan under cloudbursts, the border briefly disappears, only for politics to draw it again the next...

Each autumn, vibrant red pomegranates adorn fruit stalls on the streets of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, situated in northwestern China. While locals consider this delectable fruit...

Women in Pakistan's urban areas face daily struggles just to move around. In Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, a lack of safe and affordable public transport constrains women's mobility and limits...

To a student of history growing up in Pakistan, France's outsized role on the world stage often felt like a historical enigma. Its permanent seat on the UN Security Council...

Back in the late 90s I attended a medical conference in a medical college in Lahore when the speaker, a professor of dermatology, declared HIV/AIDS patients as sinners. It was...

Climate change is a relentless force, which combines with governance gaps and public neglect, to repeatedly expose Pakistan to catastrophic flooding. The 2010 and 2022 floods caused massive damage. Millions...

The Red Sea is a 1200-mile narrow strip of water located between northeastern Africa and the Arabian Sea which separates the coast of Suez-Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea from Saudi Arabia...