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, by ALI Tariq
For much of the past week [15-22 May], former Pakistani Prime Minster Imran Khan’s house in Lahore has been surrounded by armed police, and the Rangers – a repressive force straddling the police and Army but under civilian control – have been on standby. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has (...)
, by TARIQ Farooq
The situation in Pakistan is highly unstable and volatile, with political and economic crises intensifying and exacerbating each other. The recent arrest of Imran Khan, the former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf Party, has triggered violent reactions from his (...)
, by SIENIAWSKI Nadja
At COP27, Pakistan’s government took credit for the role it played in setting up the loss and damage facility to compensate poor nations for climate change. At home, Islamabad has not done enough to protect flood victims from starvation and eviction.
Six months after disastrous floods struck (...)
, by BHUTTO Fatima
When my country, Pakistan, flooded last year, women faced particular suffering. That’s true around the world
Last summer, a third of Pakistan was underwater. My country, the fifth most populous in the world, was submerged. Two million homes were destroyed, thousands of acres of agricultural (...)
, by ABBAS Qammar
Participants highlight the role of women in the fight for climate justice
Lahore: More than forty bikers took part in the all-women Pedal for People and Planet bike actions held at Bagh e Jinnah to celebrate International Women’s Month.
The bike action aimed to raise awareness on climate (...)
, by ZAKARIA Rafia
TODAY is International Women’s Day. On this single day out of 365 days, women review the progress that they have been able to make over the past year. In most countries, it is understood that the single day allotted to women is not a measure of their importance in society but rather a day of (...)
, by KHALIQ Abdul
The IMF mission is currently in Pakistan on a 10-day visit to discuss the stalled ninth review of the country’s current funding programme. The loan talks were restarted after the government finally yielded to IMF demands.Pakistan secured a $6 billion IMF bailout in 2019, which was topped up with (...)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
Following in the footsteps of military strongmen Ayub and Zia, Pervez Musharraf, the ‘saviour general’ who directly ruled Pakistan, will be remembered for bringing the democratic process in the country to an abrupt halt. He served as ‘chief executive’ after the 1999 coup, then as military, and (...)
, by TAQI Mohammad
Musharraf’s lasting legacy is upending the constitutional order, death and destruction in Balochistan, sowing the winds of Talibanisation for which the country reaps the whirlwinds, and a career full of lies and deceit.
Can you tell me the names of my dogs?”
“Dot and Buddy, Sir!”
The man asking (...)
, by KHALIQ Abdul
The IMF mission is currently in Pakistan on a 10-day visit to discuss the stalled ninth review of the country’s current funding programme. The loan talks were restarted after the government finally yielded to IMF demands.Pakistan secured a $6 billion IMF bailout in 2019, which was topped up with (...)
, by TAQI Mohammad
In a country, where the last police strike was in the 1970s, police protesting publicly and virtually indicting the army for the losses in Peshawar is a very significant development.
A peace march for Peshawar on February 3. Photo: Twitter/@BoloPakistan_
My hometown, Peshawar, was doused in (...)
, by TAQI Mohammad
In the spring of 1987, I stood in the drawing room of Bilour House, Peshawar, talking to Jam Saqi. The secretary general of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP), Professor Jamal Naqvi, stood by. Saqi was a member of the CPP’s Central Committee and an Amnesty International-designated ‘Prisoner of (...)
, by TARIQ Farooq
"The heavy monsoon rains from mid-June to September resulted in flash floods and standing water across Pakistan, causing human and livestock casualties as well as widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure. (...). Initial reports of outbreaks of vector-borne and waterborne diseases have (...)
, by ABBAS Zaigum
Though the Pakistani politics was always dominated by the security establishment, a new consensus, however, emerged after the ouster of General Pervaiz Musharraf in 2008.
This consensus allowed for a hybrid democracy and return of the exiled political leadership. The hybrid democracy meant (...)
, by LAKHANI Nina
In early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the country’s stall for Cop27. “We are on the frontline and intend to keep loss and damage and adapting to climate catastrophes at the core of our arguments and (...)
, by FENNELL Shailaja
Extreme weather will continue to disrupt global food systems. When floods last devastated Pakistan in 2010, an analysis by the International Food Policy Research Institute argued that, as a country with just under 40% of the population employed in agriculture, Pakistan needed to invest in the (...)
, by MALLICK Ayyaz
On 3rd November, while leading a Long March to the federal capital demanding fresh elections, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was the target of an assassination attempt. Thankfully, given Pakistan’s long history of violently disposing former Prime Ministers, Khan survived with minor injuries. (...)
Members of civil society organisations on Saturday lambasted the police’s baton charge and use of water cannons against protesting health care workers on Friday.
They disapproved the police action against protesting doctors, nurses and paramedics while addressing a press conference at the (...)
, by ALI Tariq
A failed attempt in Wazirabad last Thursday to assassinate the former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has resulted in mass demonstrations throughout the country. Khan was aboard his campaign truck, on the long march of his supporters to Islamabad to demand immediate elections. Bullets hit him in (...)
, by BRAHIM Nejma
In this particularly poor area of south-east Pakistan, several towns and villages are still under water nearly three months after the monsoon rains this summer which caused widespread and massive flooding. As Mediapart’s Nejma Brahim reports from the province, poverty and illness are rife among (...)
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