Newspaper - Column - July 3, 2025
Parliament’s climate role

Parliament’s climate role

Pakistan’s parliamentary committees have a crucial role in shaping our climate future.
Updated 03 Jul, 2025 09:46am
Blood from a stone

Blood from a stone

Even the "people’s representative" were more worried about the rights of non-filers and fraudsters than of compliant taxpayers.
Updated 03 Jul, 2025 12:10pm
The judgement and after

The judgement and after

A tamed judiciary makes it easier to further curb democratic and fundamental rights.
Updated 02 Jul, 2025 11:48am
In the shadow of conflict

In the shadow of conflict

There has been little conversation about the mental health trauma that dogs populations in conflict-ridden parts of the country.
Published 02 Jul, 2025 05:57am
Making a misogynist

Making a misogynist

This culture, where abuse is normalised, is metastasising.
Updated 02 Jul, 2025 11:40am
Consolidating power

Consolidating power

Just when we think there is nothing more to reveal, they shed another fig leaf.
Updated 01 Jul, 2025 05:50pm
Meet Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Meet Zohran Kwame Mamdani

latTo appreciate Zohran’s secular and progressive Hindu and Muslim lineage, it might help to look for a clue in his middle name.
Updated 01 Jul, 2025 09:28am
Expendable lives

Expendable lives

Countless lives have been expended in ‘higher’ causes.
Published 01 Jul, 2025 05:00am
Monsoon readiness

Monsoon readiness

The weather trajectory has been distressing.
Published 01 Jul, 2025 05:00am
‘Man of peace’?

‘Man of peace’?

Trump’s imperious conduct and record so far contradict his claim of being a peacemaker.
Updated 30 Jun, 2025 12:19pm
Judicial shift without support

Judicial shift without support

The move to revamp the system through the Sindh Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 2025, was needed. But its execution has been reckles
Published 30 Jun, 2025 05:25am
Ties that bind

Ties that bind

Things haven’t always been smooth between Israel and the US.
Updated 30 Jun, 2025 11:19am
Why a narrative?

Why a narrative?

Policies should reflect national narratives.
Published 30 Jun, 2025 05:25am
Iran, Israel scorecard

Iran, Israel scorecard

Where Iran is concerned, the fact that it survived to fight another day is a win in itself.
Updated 29 Jun, 2025 09:15am
Law in flux

Law in flux

If the rules are malleable, we enter a state of vulnerability.
Published 29 Jun, 2025 06:36am
New York City speaks

New York City speaks

One of the main reasons why Mamdani’s win has been shocking is that NYC is home to the largest population of American Jews.
Updated 28 Jun, 2025 12:21pm
Lives in limbo

Lives in limbo

Have we lost all faculties to empathise without judgement?
Published 28 Jun, 2025 05:16am
Spending $200 billion

Spending $200 billion

Bill Gates’s new deadline is: “20 years to give away virtually all my wealth.”
Published 27 Jun, 2025 07:26am
Autonomy within

Autonomy within

Pakistan is a country of strange contrasts.
Published 27 Jun, 2025 07:26am
Tariffs & export expansion

Tariffs & export expansion

As these targets and action plans evolve, maintaining consistency, continuity, coherence, coordination and predictability is paramount.
Updated 26 Jun, 2025 09:25am
The wages of hybridity

The wages of hybridity

The need for reform, for change, is more evident than perhaps it ever was.
Published 26 Jun, 2025 08:34am
A fiery fortnight

A fiery fortnight

Israel’s actions have obviously emboldened India.
Updated 26 Jun, 2025 09:18am
Justice reimagined

Justice reimagined

Today is the UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Published 26 Jun, 2025 08:31am
Brinkmanship in ME

Brinkmanship in ME

Many analysts say that regime change in Iran is still on the Israeli-Trumpian agenda.
Updated 25 Jun, 2025 09:06am
A fraught peace

A fraught peace

The US is accustomed to open-ended wars.
Published 25 Jun, 2025 05:03am
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