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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...
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...
LAST week offered a juxtaposition that captures Pakistan’s predicament. In Lahore, PTI supporters took to the streets to protest rigging and the...
A GENERAL election is like a democratic health check. In its wake, comes the prognosis: will Pakistani democracy live or die? The widely discredited...
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...
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,...
US President Joe Biden is not cool enough, not young enough, not pro-Palestinian enough. Young Democrats are disappointed by his approach to Gaza,...
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...
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...
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...
WORLD War III will get us before climate change. This is an increasingly common refrain, an understandable response to tragic and terrifying world...
HOW many conspiracy theories have you heard since Nawaz Sharif’s return? There’s the entrapment theory, the Sharif family schism theory, the...
CHINA last week issued a statement on the Israel-Palestine war, calling, noncommittally, for restraint on all sides and an end to hostilities. There...
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...
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...