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Childcare challenge

DURING a spell of what feels like endless school holidays, a working mother’s mind inevitably turns to childcare. When faced with the great juggling...

15.04.2024 90

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Silencing the press

THANK goodness journalist Asad Toor was finally released on bail on Saturday. But his ordeal is not over as he battles numerous charges under the...

18.03.2024 100

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Climate stresses

LAST week offered a juxtaposition that captures Pakistan’s predicament. In Lahore, PTI supporters took to the streets to protest rigging and the...

04.03.2024 100

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Young voters

A GENERAL election is like a democratic health check. In its wake, comes the prognosis: will Pakistani democracy live or die? The widely discredited...

19.02.2024 100

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Anti-colonial ally?

MANY will recognise the name of the great Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin. Fewer people will know that he is partially of African origin, and that his...

05.02.2024 100

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‘Managing’ polls

THE year 2024 is the year of elections. That means it’s also the year of corruption. Around the world, corruption and elections go hand in hand,...

22.01.2024 70

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Misplaced nostalgia

US President Joe Biden is not cool enough, not young enough, not pro-Palestinian enough. Young Democrats are disappointed by his approach to Gaza,...

08.01.2024 200

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Bits of hope

THE focus on Pakistan’s upcoming elections is of an existential nature: will they take place? Will the PTI endure in any form? Can Pakistani...

25.12.2023 100

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Conflict and climate

PROMISES are meant to be broken. That’s why we should respond to the outcome of COP28 with a healthy dose of scepticism. The headlines will focus on...

11.12.2023 200

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Conflict and art

MAKE art, not war. On recently seeing that iconic slogan on a T-shirt at London’s Tate Modern museum, I thought: if only it were so simple. But as...

27.11.2023 100

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Climate adaptation

WORLD War III will get us before climate change. This is an increasingly common refrain, an understandable response to tragic and terrifying world...

13.11.2023 100

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Persisting theories

HOW many conspiracy theories have you heard since Nawaz Sharif’s return? There’s the entrapment theory, the Sharif family schism theory, the...

30.10.2023 100

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Beyond ‘restraint’

CHINA last week issued a statement on the Israel-Palestine war, calling, noncommittally, for restraint on all sides and an end to hostilities. There...

16.10.2023 100

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Refugee question

IT has been a bad week for refugees. A debate is brewing on whether the UN’s refugee convention is still fit for purpose. A recent Financial Times...

02.10.2023 90

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No easy solution

MAGIC wand. Silver bullet. Miracle cure. Pick your idiom, and then forget about it. If there’s one thing Pakistanis should learn from the turmoil of...

18.09.2023 100

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