Women’s revolution
FOR as long as I can remember, people have been talking about the possibility of revolution in Pakistan. They were originally insp…
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Damaging effects
THE year 2015 will be remembered for two landmark global agreements. In September, UN member states endorsed the 2030 Development …
Cracking the code
WE have entered an era of strong tailwinds for the payments industry. Inventions such as ATM and credit cards launched in the 1980…
After freedom what?
FOUR years ago, on a leap day, a young man of 28 walked out of Haripur jail to his freedom. Now when he looks back at this great e…
Quite unlike the PNA
IT is finally the women who have united people who had long been busy identifying the factors that separated them from one another…
Green shoots of a turnaround?
TWO and a half years into the IMF stabilisation programme, there are growing indications that economic activity is finally beginni…
Return of TDPs
THE global handling of security challenges is causing immense secondary problems related to the mass migration of populations from…
The Kamal challenge
Is Mustafa Kamals open challenge to MQM leader Altaf Hussain a repeat of the 1992 formation of the Haqiqi faction and will it meet…
Void libel law
THE law of defamation in India is in a shambles; both in civil as well as criminal law. Civil law punishes it as a tort; a civil o…
Only in Karachi
THE first word my nephew Nadir uttered as a child over 25 years ago was tanker. Hardly surprising as the arrival of the vehicle ca…
