Opinions

THERE is a blight on education in Pakistan. Though commentators bemoan the disparities between public and private education, invoking social privilege as the cause, this applies […]

IN the 2013 general election, the three main parties (PML-N, PTI, PPP) fielded a combined total of 112 candidates for Lahore’s 38 national and provincial assembly […]

In recent weeks, former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain was frequently shown on the media being brought for court hearings and then being whisked away to […]

LAST Wednesday, this paper carried an editorial on staged encounters and lamented the fact that the “deaths of suspects in police shoot-outs are an acceptable part […]

THE key social, economic and political concern of our times, both domestically and globally, ought to be inequality, not simply poverty. Poverty has been far easier […]

The abductions of five activists are yet another attempt to spread fear among those who speak out in Pakistan. In the first two weeks of 2017, […]

The dangerous erosion of human rights structures and practices under Obama will reach dangerous proportions under Trump. Barack Obama won the White House in 2008 in […]

PAKISTAN’S consistency in being ranked the second last country in the Global Gender Gap Index owes to one undeniable factor: we have the world’s second worst […]