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Balochistan And The Limits Of Sovereignty Under International Law

Pakistan, Sept. 1 -- While Pakistan has a legally valid right to defend Balochistan as its own territory, international law also has its limitations, and these limitations apply to all parties to the ... Read More


When Schools Become Climate Shields

Pakistan, Aug. 31 -- Pakistan's schools face a challenge that goes beyond classrooms, textbooks and examinations. As temperatures rise, water becomes scarcer, air pollution worsens and extreme weather... Read More


Indus River's Bank Erosion And Lives Of Saraiki Native People In Layyah

Pakistan, Aug. 31 -- The rivers in Pakistan are not free, and sadly, the total population of around 15 riverine union councils in District Layyah exceeds 1,200,000. Riverbank erosion has been a decade... Read More


The Burden Of Leaving: How Family Courts Fail Women Seeking Dissolution

Pakistan, Aug. 31 -- Undoubtedly, dissolution of marriage is an unfortunate tragedy that continues to haunt isolated partners for years to come. However, the partner most susceptible to suspicion, mos... Read More


Mystery And Mysticism Of Pak Singhar: Uncovering Tando Allahyar's Sufi Legacy

Pakistan, Aug. 31 -- Tando Allahyar is home to numerous shrines of Sufi saints from well-established Sufi orders. These Sufi saints played an important role in carrying their spiritual mentors' teachi... Read More


Why Pakistan's Bureaucracy Refuses To Change

Pakistan, Aug. 30 -- Pakistan will not change until there is a comprehensive overhaul of the machinery that runs its system. In Pakistan's system, that machinery is the bureaucratic layer that sits be... Read More


The Archive I Could Not Read: Jinnah, Partition And The Wall We Built

Pakistan, Aug. 30 -- In 2009, I went to Bombay to look for Muhammad Ali Jinnah's legal papers. I had a visa measured in days, a list of case names, and a good deal of more confidence than the trip des... Read More


New Provinces: Is This The Right Time?

Pakistan, Aug. 30 -- Pakistan is passing through a difficult phase. The country is facing serious economic challenges, security threats are visible in different parts of the country, and relations wit... Read More


Blue Passports And Inheritance Of Privilege

Nigeria, Aug. 29 -- Pakistan's blue-passport controversy should be read through a short chronology of expanding privileges on the part of militro-judicial-civil complex of Pakistan. In May 2018, forme... Read More


How Our Paltry Systems Fail The Children Of The Poor

Pakistan, Aug. 29 -- "They are in heaven now They were as pure as the prophets, Who came with your message. Why did you send these little souls Only to call them back again? Were they too preciou... Read More