Tag: Society

A few weeks ago, I had noticed journalist Haroon Rashid and Miss Marvel actress, Mehwish Hayat, call out Bollywood celebrities ...

Although phrases, such as ‘women in development’, are mentioned in social discourses far to often in Pakistan, they sound hollow ...

75 years back, at the time of the partition when there was bloodshed in the name of homeland, nation, and ...

Although some awareness has been created on gender equality in the last decade, still a long distance must be covered ...

My biggest fear, apart from losing a loved one, is to end up in an abusive relationship. I understand that ...

There is a widespread tendency among scholars to categorise thinkers among existing ideologies and fit them within the dominant schools ...

I'll be the first to say it: my Urdu is not the best. It's a fact I'm not super proud ...

As an old proverb goes ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. So is obscenity. In 2018, the Kerala ...

It is considered that Pakistanis are more critical of their state, society and establishment than, for example, Indians are of ...

Pakistan’s political, social and cultural environment is becoming increasingly toxic. It is a reaction to the country’s digital reality reinforced ...

Dead Man’s Prisoner is a fascinating novel by a former provincial bureaucrat of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. It addresses the despicable ...

Folk Devils A moral panic is a widespread fear — most often an irrational one. The fear is about someone ...

Arshad Waheed’s latest novel in English language, ‘Other Days’, is an eventful story from Pakistan, weaved around two woeful events ...

One thought comforted him: No one would know – it was not the sort of thing that she would speak ...

Presence of a uniform policy on internal security allows the government to have a pre-emptive approach to resolving national internal ...

The culture of using smartphones for all our needs has penetrated every segment of the society and all facets of ...

Kofi Anan, former General-Secretary of the United Nations, once commented that violence against women is the most shameful and pervasive ...

Pakistan ranks as the sixth most dangerous country in the world for women, with countless cases of rape, domestic violence, ...

Conspiracy is a national sport in Pakistan. Nearly every Pakistan of prominence believes that they and their phone are monitored. ...

In the five following decades since 1979 our region has witnessed six insurgencies and the corresponding militarisation that comes with ...

Ideas and Futures is an e-journal that focuses on "re-imagining our societies beyond the pandemic". The journal, edited by Sadia ...

Sacralism is the merger of Church and State wherein one is called upon to change the other. It is not ...

Extremism is a state of mind where a person holds extreme and narrow-minded political and religious views of their own ...

Religious extremism and intolerance has spread widely in our society, especially among the younger generation. In the last two decades, ...

Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments must introduce, pass and enact comprehensive laws against forced conversions in conformity with international human ...

The brutal lynching and burning of a body in Sialkot is a continuation of violence in the name of religion ...