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Participants highlight the role of women in the fight for climate justice
Lahore: More than forty bikers took part in the all-women Pedal for People and Planet bike actions held at Bagh e Jinnah to celebrate International Women’s Month.
The bike action aimed to raise awareness on climate (...)
Following in the footsteps of military strongmen Ayub and Zia, Pervez Musharraf, the ‘saviour general’ who directly ruled Pakistan, will be remembered for bringing the democratic process in the country to an abrupt halt. He served as ‘chief executive’ after the 1999 coup, then as military, and (...)
Musharraf’s lasting legacy is upending the constitutional order, death and destruction in Balochistan, sowing the winds of Talibanisation for which the country reaps the whirlwinds, and a career full of lies and deceit.
Can you tell me the names of my dogs?”
“Dot and Buddy, Sir!”
The man asking (...)
In a country, where the last police strike was in the 1970s, police protesting publicly and virtually indicting the army for the losses in Peshawar is a very significant development.
A peace march for Peshawar on February 3. Photo: Twitter/@BoloPakistan_
My hometown, Peshawar, was doused in (...)
In the spring of 1987, I stood in the drawing room of Bilour House, Peshawar, talking to Jam Saqi. The secretary general of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP), Professor Jamal Naqvi, stood by. Saqi was a member of the CPP’s Central Committee and an Amnesty International-designated ‘Prisoner of (...)
"The heavy monsoon rains from mid-June to September resulted in flash floods and standing water across Pakistan, causing human and livestock casualties as well as widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure. (...). Initial reports of outbreaks of vector-borne and waterborne diseases have (...)
Though the Pakistani politics was always dominated by the security establishment, a new consensus, however, emerged after the ouster of General Pervaiz Musharraf in 2008.
This consensus allowed for a hybrid democracy and return of the exiled political leadership. The hybrid democracy meant (...)
In early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the country’s stall for Cop27. “We are on the frontline and intend to keep loss and damage and adapting to climate catastrophes at the core of our arguments and (...)
Extreme weather will continue to disrupt global food systems. When floods last devastated Pakistan in 2010, an analysis by the International Food Policy Research Institute argued that, as a country with just under 40% of the population employed in agriculture, Pakistan needed to invest in the (...)
On 3rd November, while leading a Long March to the federal capital demanding fresh elections, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was the target of an assassination attempt. Thankfully, given Pakistan’s long history of violently disposing former Prime Ministers, Khan survived with minor injuries. (...)
Members of civil society organisations on Saturday lambasted the police’s baton charge and use of water cannons against protesting health care workers on Friday.
They disapproved the police action against protesting doctors, nurses and paramedics while addressing a press conference at the (...)
A failed attempt in Wazirabad last Thursday to assassinate the former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has resulted in mass demonstrations throughout the country. Khan was aboard his campaign truck, on the long march of his supporters to Islamabad to demand immediate elections. Bullets hit him in (...)
In this particularly poor area of south-east Pakistan, several towns and villages are still under water nearly three months after the monsoon rains this summer which caused widespread and massive flooding. As Mediapart’s Nejma Brahim reports from the province, poverty and illness are rife among (...)
Pakistan has experienced a cruel summer this year. Starting in June, floods of unprecedented severity began devastating the country. By September, a third of Pakistan was under water, over 1,300 people were dead, and as many as 30 million people are estimated to have been made homeless. The (...)
The world’s brief concern for the plight of more than 35 million Pakistanis deprived of their homes, livelihoods and dignity by this summer’s unprecedented monsoon-related floods was summed up in late August by a suitably passionate video appeal by Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio (...)
IT is 2009. A captive TV audience in metropolitan Pakistan is increasingly occupied by events in the otherwise idyllic Swat Valley where armed militias led by a certain Mullah Fazlullah have established a parallel government. Reports of lashings for ‘loose’ women and beheadings in public squares (...)
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Pluto Press, UK ISBN: 978-0745346670 185pp.
Many an event — natural or otherwise — has brought prodigious change to human lives. We have witnessed wars, natural disasters, epidemics and (...)
LAHORE: Many farmers and members of civil society demonstrated near Charing Cross on The Mall to call on the government to declare a climate emergency in order to address the climate crisis.
Locals of Khuda ki Basti, and students from various city-based educational institutions were also (...)
The scenes of water torrents running through the fields, mountains, highways and streets in most parts of Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southern part of Punjab have been circulating on media in the past few weeks, drawing attention to the collapse being experienced by Pakistan. (...)
On 25 August, Pakistan declared a state of emergency due to flooding, which has been described as among the worst in the country’s history. Millions of people have been displaced due to rain and flooding with UN preliminary estimates indicating that 575,000 people were living in relief camps at (...)
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