Ladies stripped and paraded, hundreds of rapes taped, a person burnt to death, but the business mill continues. While random unverified tweets claim that Pakistan’s exports orders are suffering in the aftermath of the horrific Sialkot incident, all stakeholders contacted…
In the 1990s, India liberalised its economy, paving the way for more private investment. For the next two decades, India grew at a rapid pace, lifting millions out of poverty. Many in the 2000s considered India the next ‘Asian…
On December 10, 2019, Abubacarr Tambadou, then Gambia’s justice minister, posed a question to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. “Why is the world standing by and allowing such horrors again in our lifetime?” It was the first…
Srinagar: The arrest of Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in an alleged terror funding case has evoked sharp criticism by human rights organisations and political parties at home and abroad. A social media…
HOW badly are Saarc countries already affected by climate change, and what is the hope the damage could be contained before it becomes an unmitigated disaster? With these paramount questions, there should have been a common strategy, a shared…
RARELY have I seen a ruler so oblivious to the tsunami heading his way. While the prime minister is busy preaching family values to the country on a daily basis, the spiral of inflation that is heading in our direction once…
We mourn the loss of Kamla Bhasin, feminist activist, writer, poet, mentor and friend who left us on September 25. Kamla has been a core part of influencing and collaborating with feminist movements in Sri Lanka since the 1980s.…
EVER since last summer when the government applied a historic monetary and fiscal stimulus to the economy a question has hung silently in the air, holding its poise through all the hype along the way around the current account surplus of…
ON July 20, Noor Mukaddam, the daughter of a former Pakistani diplomat, was killed in an upscale Islamabad neighbourhood. The incident was particularly reprehensible not only because of its gruesome nature but also because it was yet another example…
I was shocked and deeply repulsed beyond words to witness the apparent coordinated attempts by the administrations of Boris Johnson and Joe Biden at bleaching Myanmar’s international legal crime of genocide on the very day Rohingya survivors around the…