As a researcher digging through books and archival records, I seldom came across any mention of Pashtun women. When I did, it was often in relation to men as their objects, serfs. These texts rendered women invisible not because they weren’t there, but because they weren’t important when considering knowledge production and policymaking. Since colonial […]
The PIA plane crash is not an isolated incident, but the consequence of overall negligence, lack of investment, incompetent managers, and the designs of a self-seeking ruling class claiming top positions while bankrupting the organisation, writes Xenia Rasul. The only truth one can be certain of in this life is that all of us will […]
The country is on the brink of implosion not just as a consequence of the pandemic, but also due to past misadventures surfacing in what is a very bleak time. If resources were allocated towards human security, which includes health and food security, as opposed to other frontiers of security that are beyond bloated, we […]