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A report on the Student Solidarity March 2021 held in many cities across Pakistan on Friday demanding lifting of the ban on campus politics and student unions in universities and colleges in Pakistan.
Thousands of students from universities and colleges across Pakistan took to the streets for (...)
THE results of a recent survey conducted in Gilgit-Baltistan on the extent of child labour there has put the number of child workers at 50,000. According to the Gilgit Baltistan Child Labour Survey 2018-2019, most of these children work in hazardous conditions and are doubly vulnerable to (...)
If you want to see how the Pakhtuns cope with militarisation, visit any crossing point on the Pak-Afghan border and observe not only their miseries, but also how this wretchedness is represented or controlled by the system.
While reports of people’s helplessness at border points such as Ghulam (...)
The Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 2021 awarded to David Card for his contributions to scholarship on minimum wages has vindicated trade unions, labour and human rights advocates and pro-labour economists the world over. Card’s work in 1994 refuted the long-held hypothesis that increases (...)
Prime Minister Imran Khan says he wants a welfare state like that of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in the seventh century. Many Pakistanis want to believe him and in a Riyasat-i-Madina. At a preparatory meeting ahead of the Prophet’s birthday, Khan announced the creation of the Rehmatul-lil-Alameen (...)
GWADAR: Thousands of people from different areas of Gwadar and Turbat on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against non-availability of basic amenities and shortage of drinking water, health, education facilities and increasing unemployment in Gwadar and other areas of Makran division. (...)
The university administration needs to rethink the idea of an academic space
Although Pakistan has a rich history of student politics, politically conscious students are no longer welcome in any public space. The legacy associated with many rebellious student leaders like Rashid Ahmed Khan and (...)
FAISALABAD: The Punjab government has withdrawn the free transport facility for four workers welfare schools which irked their parents who staged a protest demonstration at the district council chowk on Monday.
As many as 18,000 children of the workers of Faisalabad industry are enrolled in (...)
The much-hyped Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project is being touted by the government as the panacea to Lahore’s problems of urban sprawl, housing, water and pollution. But an in-depth look raises question marks over all the fancy claims. Who does it serve then?
It is a cool winter morning (...)
PABLO Neruda was already something of a renowned poet when he was posted as the Chilean consul to Barcelona in 1934, and shortly afterwards transferred to Madrid, a vantage point from where he witnessed the unfolding Spanish civil war. It proved to be a thoroughly politicising experience.
He (...)
BALOCHISTAN bleeds again. Yet another episode of gruesome brutality against Hazaras — coal miners no less — has brought yet another protest movement into existence. Yesterday it was the death of a Baloch daughter of the soil on foreign shores, tomorrow it will be a Pashtun man falling prey to the (...)
What has mankind done to itself? World wars, global warming, lemming-like migrations, and now Covid-19. Will we ever see an unclouded morn again?
When January 2020 dawned, no one imagined that its tail-ender December would close on a note of such helpless despair. The world is undergoing an (...)
The creator of an animated film on blasphemy in Pakistan is hoping it will prompt discussion on tolerance at a time that rights advocates say hate speech on social media is increasingly triggering violence.
The short film “Swipe” is about a boy obsessed with a hypothetical smartphone app that (...)
THE Indian and Pakistani constitutions provide equality for all, yet the rights of citizens from different religious groups in matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance and succession, depend on religious identity. A Muslim man can practise polygamy but this is denied to men from other (...)
Events of the past few weeks have once again demonstrated the anxiety and fear etched in the unconscious of our state. Whether it is the arrest of organizers of the PDM’s Multan rally or a brutal crackdown on protesting farmers in Lahore, it is clear that the space for dissent continues to (...)
It has been a year since Pakistan was shaken by an unprecedented upheaval of university students across the country. Organized under the banner of the Students Solidarity March, students took out rallies in over 50 districts to express their anger against a broken education system and the (...)
This year the activities around “Students’ Union Restoration March” are expected on Friday the 27th November.
On 23rd November the federal education minister announced the closure of educational institutions for one month due to the increasing cases of Covid-19. The recent activities around (...)
The indicators of a severe debt crisis were already present in Pakistan long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Coordinated efforts by CSOs all round the world are needed to ensure that countries like Pakistan are not left alone dealing with its impact.
The indicators of a severe debt crisis were (...)
Recent political developments remind us that locating the power centre is often harder than holding it accountable. The bravado shown by the opposition parties during the All Parties Conference lost much of its steam as news began circulating of ‘secret meetings’. Various narratives emerged, (...)
NO country likes to be told what is wrong with it but responsible states do not dismiss criticism without assessing the element of truth contained in adverse comments on their performance. Pakistan is not among such countries. It either ignores whatever is said about its performance by friend (...)
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