Opinion
Rimsha’s acquittal: a new beginning?
by: Raza Rumi
Date: November 18, 2013
An Islamabad court has acquitted Rimsha Masih, a Christian child accused of blasphemy. Her trial showed that a local Mullah tried to frame her, and she is now free....
Opinion
Women in Pakistan – Battling the Odds
by: Mariam Kizilbash
Date: November 18, 2013
For many decades in Pakistan, an entire architecture of laws has been used to persecute and marginalise women, most potently symbolised by the Hudood Ordinances and other discriminatory laws instituted...
Opinion
Pakistan’s Floods One Year On: Flood Victims Continue To Face Long Term Challenges
by: Mishael AliKhan
Date: November 18, 2013
This month marks a year since Pakistan faced the worst floods in its history. The deluge devastated and submerged entire villages, roads, bridges, water supply and sanitation infrastructure, agricultural lands,...
Opinion
Strengthening democracy through access to information
by: Raniya Khan
Date: November 18, 2013
The recent introduction of Rule 46 in the Punjab Government Rules of Business 2011 disallows all government employees in Punjab to speak about official business to media, non-officials, or to...
Opinion
Repeating History: Floods in Sindh create devastation for over 7.4 million people
by: Mishael AliKhan
Date: November 18, 2013
A tsunamic deluge of monsoon rains threatens Pakistan once again, floods have affected another 7.4million people this year, while twenty million people are still struggling to cope with the devastation...
Opinion
Balochistan File
by: Saba Imtiaz & Madeeha Ansari
Date: November 18, 2013
The roots of violence in Balochistan can be traced to multiple sources, from political unrest, to sectarian strife, to a severe development deficit. In two parallel analyses, JI provides an...
Opinion
Year in Review 2010: Pakistan’s Continuing Flood Crisis
by: Erum Haider
Date: November 18, 2013
The monsoon floods that hit Pakistan in July 2010 killed 1,752 people and affected nearly 18.1 million across the length of the country. Many of the deaths were reported in...
Opinion
Rule of Law
by: Erum Haider
Date: November 18, 2013
No society has ever attained a perfect realization of the rule of law. But when plotting 35 countries on an objective scale, Pakistan is dangerously close to perfect failure, scoring...
Opinion
National Plans for Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
by: Nadeem Ahmed
Date: November 18, 2013
In the days and weeks after the floods it has been suggested that the government's response was lacking, or that coordination mechanisms were weak. These are unfair remarks - the...
Opinion
A guilty witness to the flood exodus
by: Nasim Zehra
Date: November 18, 2013
It was around sunset and I was watching the floodwater spread to Tando Hafiz Shah. The small town in southern Sindh with an estimated population of 50,000 was almost completely...
