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Poverty Feeds Malnutrition - Pakistan's Health Crisis Is An Economic One

Pakistan, Sept. 5 -- A child in Pakistan can be malnourished before she has ever missed a meal. That was the starting point the Act for Nutrition conference in Islamabad came close to addressing, even... Read More


Jirgas: The Failure Of Justice And The Rise Of Parallel Courts

Pakistan, Sept. 5 -- The tribal courts generally known as Jirga system are flourishing in Sindh and Balochistan where half lettered landlords, feudal chiefs, Sardars, tribal influential preside over v... Read More


Nullah Lai's Revenge: How Urban Encroachment Turned A River Into A Disaster Risk

Pakistan, Sept. 4 -- There are rivers that cities inherit, and there are waterways that cities gradually destroy. Nullah Lai, or Leh Nullah, is a painful example of the latter. What is commonly descri... Read More


When Crime Acquires Religion

Pakistan, Sept. 4 -- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"-Martin Luther King Jr. A horrifying crime on Bournemouth seafront has once again raised a question that extends far beyond... Read More


How Many More Names Before We Call It A Crisis?

Pakistan, Sept. 4 -- There is something deeply unsettling about the number of names that have entered Pakistan's news cycle this August. Hina Javed. Aizal. Ayat Noor. Ayesha Gilamana. Amina. Anmol. Th... Read More


Pakistan's Tale Of Two Cities: The Constitutional Distance Between Islamabad And Rawalpindi

Pakistan, Sept. 3 -- Charles Dickens wrote two novels that, read together, offer an unexpectedly useful lens through which to view Pakistan. A Tale of Two Cities is the story of London and Paris in th... Read More


Greenland: The Frozen Frontier Of A New Geopolitical Rivalry

Pakistan, Sept. 3 -- For centuries, the Arctic was treated as the geographical equivalent of a locked room: remote, inhospitable and largely inaccessible. Its frozen seas and enormous distances seemed... Read More


Rebirth Of Gregor Samsa: Kafka, The Cockroach And India's Gen Z Revolt

Pakistan, Sept. 2 -- Kafka's Metamorphosis came in 1915 and after one century it has come full circle and manifested itself in the latest political upheaval of Gen Z in the shape of Cockroach Janta Pa... Read More


Iinvisible Wounds Of A Polycrisis: Why Children Need Mental Health Support Now

Pakistan, Sept. 2 -- When a crisis erupts, the world instinctively responds to what can be seen. Images of hunger, destroyed homes, displaced families, and overwhelmed hospitals mobilise urgent action... Read More


A State That Mourns But Never Mends

Pakistan, Sept. 1 -- Fourteen newborns died in a maternity ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) fire. Like every disaster before it, we will mourn them and then forget the lessons... Read More