Month: April 2020

As the globe reels from the COVID-19 attack, economists and political scientists are already weighing in with projections of adverse ...

The curve can be flattened only through harsh measures of shoving people behind the iron doors of their homes, writes ...

Pakistan can adopt technology to promote access to justice, writes Ziaullah Ranjah

Had the Democratic Establishment learnt a lesson from their 2016 reversal, they would have seen the popular surge for Sanders ...

The situation in the province is stable, writes Adnan Aamir

Yes, you guessed it. This too is about the pathogen. But not the pathogen-pathogen. It’s about the government’s performance. Please ...

Constitutionalism and welfare of the people must be reintroduced in national discourse, writes Farhatulah Babar

This photograph shows American Expeditionary Force victims of the Spanish flu at U.S. Army Camp Hospital no. 45 in Aix-les-Bains, ...

Fayes T Kantawala continues his quarantine journal

K Shahid looks back at the Pakistani players who left their mark on PSL 5

Raza Naeem on the life and times of Dr. Mubashir Hasan (1922-2020)

Zeinab Masud adapts to life under lockdown

Parvez Mahmood reflects on a world that resembles that described in pre-modern accounts of plague

Daniyal Zahid saves you from one waste of your time in social isolation

Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro recalls a fierce clash over cattle-rustling – and the tombs that mark it today

Salman Tarik Kureshi notes how history’s violent processes continued through the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19

Major General Syed Ali Hamid on the experiences of a distinguished Frontier soldier in the conflicts of the 19th century

These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, tft takes no ...

Alarm bells With unemployed day labourers gathering at random places in Pakistani cities, begging for food rations and money, the ...

Thanks God we live in a big fat kothi and have proper servants’ quarters with around the clock servants living ...

The impact of child marriage is far-reaching, and exerts a negative impact on a girl’s economic, educational, and health outcomes ...

Imran Khan may be prime minister of Pakistan and supreme leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf but he is not in ...

There is no meaningful quarantine or social distancing in poor areas across Pakistan, writes Khawaja Akbar

The Punjab Infectious Diseases (Prevention and Control) Ordinance 2020 ignores our social realities, writes Ziaullah Ranjah

The impact of pandemics can be fundamental and structural, writes William Milam