Muna Khan The weekend before I was moving to Chicago in 2016 to pursue graduate studies, 62 people were shot over the three-day Memorial Day holiday. The news flashed across American channels as I packed while family expressed concern about my moving to Chicago during such turbulence. When I relayed this to my audience at […]
A. M. Khan Grappling with internet inevitability in Chitral during the Covid-19 pandemic was uncommon, particularly among young people enrolled in higher educational institutions of Pakistan. The state of internet service and coverage in Lower Chitral was, however, quite better than in Upper Chitral but the only constraint was its limited coverage. Once upon a
Zafar AhmadFor the last two decades, Chitral has witnessed an alarming rate of suicide among its youth. A survey conducted by this writer as a part of his university research showed that 300 individuals committed suicide between 2007 and 2011. Likewise, 176 cases of suicide were reported from 2013 to 2019, abnormally high for a
Arif Hasan The legal and constitutional aspects regarding the establishment of the Island Development Authority have been discussed convincingly by the Sindh government. But whether the two islands, around which a controversy has been built, remain with the provincial government or with the state, development on them should not be permitted in the larger interests of Sindh’s
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Irfan Husain Imagine you have been parachuted to power to run a country of 220 million with myriad problems of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and malnutrition. You have also inherited massive fiscal problems from your predecessors, elected and uniformed. And to add to your woes, your country — as well as the rest of
