End of Empire?
How ironic that within a week of abandoning the project to “emancipate” Afghan women, the Biden Administration faced another defeat: the Texas Supreme Court banned abortion six weeks into pregnancy. The Chair of the Feminist…
Category: From The Editor
Freedom First, Foremost
Freedom is a tender plant; it needs nursing and constant vigilance.” Today, the Independence Day message of Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah from 1959 resonates louder than ever before. People make history, often in conditions not of…
The Core Issue
A secure and resilient marketplace is essential for our national security, economic security, and technological independence. COVID-19 has proved that the lack of domestic production of crucial antibiotics challenges our ability to counter threats —…
An Evolving World Order
As we finalise the pages of the May 2021 issue, our country is in the third wave of the pandemic. According to WHO, from January 3, 2020 to 30 April 2021, there have been 815,711…
Review & Redress
Since the inception of Pakistan, migrants have been organising collectively in different urban conditions in Karachi. Unsustainable population growth, environmental challenges, unregulated profiteering, and political mischief make the discussion and conceptualisation of Karachi 2.0 a…
Cleaning the Augean Stable
Do we need Corruption Perceptions’ Index or Broadsheet to understand the level of corruption in Pakistan? The media’s obsession with “revealing” what we already know is not journalism, but rather the hawking of a…
Pakistan in 2021
We hope and pray that Pakistan will join the ranks of middle-income countries, with a GDP per capita of around USD 4,000 by 2030.
Setting the Tone
Led by waderas, sardars, Khans and funded by Pakistan’s enemies, the separatist voices weaken the country’s genuine progressive, patriotic and nationalist platforms
Redefining Democracy
Donald Trump in the United States, Modi in India, Eurocentric and anti-immigrant forces in Europe — it’s the rise of the populists. Is democracy around the world under threat?