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Transgender rights

FOUR years after the epic and surprising (given our right-wing bent) multiparty approval of a Transgender Act, right-wing forces now say it is un-Islamic. Terming it anti-religion may be responsible in part for the recent a...

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE HYBRID JUDICIARY

The Supreme Court’s Senior Puisne Judge, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, and Islamabad High Court’s Justice Babar Sattar have been writing letters to the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Yahya Afridi. Justice Shah a...

14-Sep-2025 Read More

NEIGHBOURS: RESHAPING THE GLOBAL ORDER

Chinese weapons are starting to show up in the world’s biggest conflict zones, underscoring China’s technological advancement and investment in this area. In the 1990s and 2000s, Chinese weapons systems and military equip...

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GOVERNANCE: CHOOSING THE HEC CHAIRPERSON

The top job in Pakistani higher education is, by design, a temporary one. The chairperson of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) now gets a mere two years — instead of four — to steward the country’s higher education res...

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GENDER AND THE FIGHT AGAINST ERASURE

The body is a human being’s first home and first identity. Now, imagine being born into a home that does not acknowledge your reality. That is only a vague reflection of how the life of a transgender person begins. The term...

14-Sep-2025 Read More

Reporting on floods

IN reporting on floods, four terms have been used constantly. They have traditional planning-related meanings, which can no longer be applied to them because of the phenomenon of climate change. These are: ‘master plan’, ‘...

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