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The reality of despair
Trigger warning: Suicide If you’re reading this and feel helpless, I want you to remember that reaching out is always better than not feeling worthy enough to live. You are…
Modern-Day Slavery: A Reality not yet Realized
Slavery may have been abolished a century and a half back, an achievement for the abolitionist movement indeed, the greatest trophy and an unparalleled step forward for human rights. However,…
Human Rights Abuses in Kashmir – In Light of the International Bill of Rights Kashmir
The land where screams are muffled behind fallen rubble, where the souls of children are sent to earth with destinies marked in blood, where men wail in horror every day,…
Misogyny and depictions of domestic abuse in television
Take any Pakistani television show from the past few years, and you’ll see one underlying element present in all of them. There are no thrillers, murder mysteries, courtroom dramas and…
Lok Virsa: An insight into Pakistan’s culture and traditions
Cladded in mud made from varying ratios of clay, loam, and silt, this hut uses dried straw as a roof. Two tiny windows adjacent to each other exercise the purpose…
Diamer-Bhasha Dam: A Water Scarce and Electric Hungry Country’s New Hope
Pakistan is a country that has long been plagued with electricity problems with power outages due to faulty technical support and load shedding due to the low production of electricity….
Tech innovation race of US and China
The spread of U.S.-China rivalry into the technology sector has threatened the way innovation operates. The U.S.-China hybrid cold war is spreading immensely. There has been a consistent movement of…
Amidst the Stars – Nights in Naran Bazaar
I peered from the top of the balcony, a pashmina shawl draped over my shoulders, a warm cup of kehwa being my only source of warmth. The sky with its…
Street cricket – Finest childhood memory of a Pakistani
They turned the lights on. They had brought a small, used broom with them to wipe off the pitch. People started to gather on their rooftops to have a good…
A NEW DAWN OF TRANSGENDER RIGHTS
The word ‘Transgender” has always had a great stigma surrounding it. However, this was not always the case. For centuries Transgenders kept a position of great power in the courts…
The history living on Pakistan’s streets
Family time with our grandparents almost always means to hear ancient stories that sound just as mesmerising as fairy tales. We all have heard about merchants coming around, wearing huge…
KARACHI: ITS HIGHS, LOWS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
Standing in a crowded market square in Clifton (amidst a pandemic, with people seemingly indifferent to all government-mandated SOPs) in the blistering July heat, if asked, one probably would have…
TAIMOOR SALAHUDDIN aka MOOROO – Pakistan’s Finest Content Creator
An actor. A musician. A filmmaker. A comedian. A storyteller. A writer. A photographer. A composer. Anything. You name it, Mooroo is defined by the term. There’s a renowned saying…
Tale of a Lost Nation
Pin Drop Silence. Not a single sound could be heard except for the occasional flickering of the illuminating fire set up in the room’s corner. I glanced down at the…
The Culture and History of Poetry in the Subcontinent
Laazim hai ke hum bhi dekhen ge, Woh din ke jis ka waada hai Jo lauh-e-azal pe likha hai Hum dekhenge We have no choice but to witness it, The…
Tariq Aziz – The end of an era
“Lagta hai waqt tham gaya hai. Rawan dawan zindagi ruk gai hai. Kayi dinon se bistar per laitay laitay soch raha hun ke azaadana harkat bhi Maalik ki kitni bari…
Mental Health, Policies and Inclusion of Neurodivergent People
Of all the crises our world is currently facing, the increasing ratio of mental health disorders combined with attached stigmas, lack of resources, and lack of treatment is a significant…
Pakistan’s economic overview amidst COVID-19
Aside from various transnational and domestic issues that have prevailed in Pakistan, COVID-19 has posed a new challenge for the country’s developing economy. The outbreak of corona virus can be…
Literacy and Economic Growth
Literacy is the potential to read. Whereas, the sum of literate individuals in a given age classification, demonstrated as a percentage of the entire population in that age group is…
Drug Abuse: The warm feeling leaving you cold inside
Fourteen, A raw yet so fearless age she was fourteen when she first came across the feeling of being numb, the feeling of complete and utter serenity. She still remembers…