Opinion
The Right to Public Space
by: Sadia Khatri
Date: September 7, 2017
My 13 year old sister and I play a game when we commute in Karachi. I count the number of men I see in public spaces, and she counts women...
Opinion
Women in Politics: A Long Road Home
by: Aisha Sarwari
Date: August 21, 2017
When a woman in Pakistan enters politics it is as though she has consciously decided to walk onto a minefield. Despite women parliamentarians enacting affirmative pro-women legislation and leading their...
Opinion
Revolutionizing Business: Women in Entrepreneurship
by: Sadaffe Abid and Babar Pal
Date: August 17, 2017
More and more women are beginning to jump on to the entrepreneurial bandwagon. In the words of Melinda Gates, “when we invest in women and girls, we are investing in...
Opinion
Women in the TTP: Recruiting Across the Gender Divide
by: Meera Nadeem
Date: August 10, 2017
Women in the TTP: Recruiting Across the Gender Divide In the course of carrying out its anti-state insurgency, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has damaged or destroyed over 1,000 schools in...
Opinion
War Machine
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: July 22, 2017
What does it take to win a $23 billion-a-year war? With DoD on the brink of recommitting up to 3,900 more American soldiers to the Afghan battlefield, and a possible surge...
Opinion
Between the Devil & the Deep State
by: Fahd Humayun
Date: June 4, 2017
There’s no shortage of irony in the fact that Prime Minister Sharif’s diplomatic snub at the Arab-Islamic-American summit this month coincided with a decidedly rough patch in Pak-Iran relations. While...
Opinion
Bad Choices
by: Hassan Akbar
Date: May 22, 2017
President Trump is finally set to address his country’s longest running war with a ‘new’ policy for Afghanistan. With a troop increase in the mix and a visibly more muscular...
Opinion
How not to talk with India
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: May 6, 2017
Talking to India is just as important as how not to talk. Starting from the premise that constructive dialogue is the first step towards untangling a history of vexed relations...
Opinion
Silencing Kashmir
by: Meera Nadeem
Date: May 4, 2017
India’s blanket ban on 22 social media websites in Jammu and Kashmir has brought to fore the agency of social media in the latest struggle for rights in the disputed...
Opinion
The Rise of Vigilantism
by: Daanika Kamal
Date: April 27, 2017
Ten days and three acts of vigilantism – the murder of Mashal Khan in Mardan, three burqa clad sisters gunning down a man accused of blasphemy in Sialkot, and Shehbaz...
