Opinions

January 25, 2017

Inequality, not poverty

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 […]
January 23, 2017

Forced disappearances will not silence us

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, […]
January 23, 2017

Human rights: From Obama to Trump

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 […]
January 23, 2017

Where are the women?

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 […]
January 19, 2017

Show your faces…

Last week, officials from Morocco’s interior ministry took to the markets. There they visited some merchants and handed them a letter. “We notice that you sell […]
January 18, 2017

Tapestry Pakistan’s thriving culture of corruption

Ziaullah Khan Toru has a high pitch voice which becomes even louder when he gets into an argument. In his early forties, he is both passionate […]
January 18, 2017

Forbidden fruit: Corporate control over Pakistan’s seed economy

Growing up in Pakistan, one knew what real fruit looked like, and how good it tasted. It was only when one travelled to countries like the […]
January 18, 2017

The perils of Pakistani migrants heading to Europe

When Mohammed Ismail was 11 years old, his maternal uncle disappeared from their village in Gujrat. Nobody heard from him; nobody knew where he had gone. […]