Career Choice: A Dilemma for Students
When a young student completes his higher secondary school education, he faces the ‘choice’ of his future career. He hits a wall- a wall of indecisiveness and confusion. The student…
Woes Of The Third World
As a citizen of the 3rd world, my favorite childhood game used to be “what if I were born in ………”. Those used to be fun times when I would…
Mental Health And The Coronavirus
Another Pandemic Worsened by COVID-19 The word ‘pandemic’ can seem a little too extreme to people, especially when referring to mental health. But the word ‘crisis’ seems too small, too…
Illiteracy – Root Cause of Many Problems in Pakistan
Literacy is the backbone of the development of any country. From playing a role in politics to social and economic issues, there is no area where literacy is not essential….
A Nightmare on Pakistani Streets – Drugs and Death
Everything seemed dark and gloomy. He was tired. Exhausted. Shattered. Done. With everything in life. And the solution to all his pain and misery was right there in front of…
Environmental Impact of Tourism
Pakistan has a rich landscape to offer from mountainous regions to deserts. With these areas becoming accessible, the influx of tourists is progressively increasing and however great it may be…
Funerals in Pakistan:How we make them Difficult
If you are from Pakistan and if you have been through the unfortunate event of losing someone, then I am sure you will find the following article very relatable. You…
Drugs – Increased usage in Pakistan’s youth
The youth of Pakistan has been subjected to exposure to drugs at a very young age. Abusing drugs has become a norm in the elite society. On the other hand,…
Clean Green Program
In a world where industrialization is running rampant and pollution is at an overwhelming rise, eco-friendly and green living is more important than ever now. Environmental stability is not only…
Impact of unemployment on the quality of life
Unemployment is a state of affairs in which people who are voluntarily looking for work are unable to find work. Unemployment is a global issue that affects both developed and…
Animal Abuse: The Plight of the Unheard
People love to flaunt their furry friends on social media and leave no stone unturned when it comes to expressing their love for animals, one has to stop and wonder…
The potable water and waste management crisis of the gateway to mesmerizing north of Pakistan, Mansehra.
Author: Syed Obaid Ali The city of Mansehra is the gateway to northern areas of Pakistan, lies in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the Iranian plateau in Central Asia….
Animal rights and welfare in Pakistan
There has been a major improvement in animal welfare over the last decade. Conceptually, this revolution requires a massive overhaul of conventional methods of realizing our ethical duties to other…
Suicide: A social stigma
‘Astagfirullah, gunah kardia phir ek aur bachi ne’, my grandfather said as he flipped over the newspaper. It was part of the ritual. Every day, someone from my family would…
Climate Change – A Threat to The World
“Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and it is the world’s most vulnerable populations who are most immediately at risk. The actions of the wealthiest nations-those…
Lifting the Veil: Myths about Neurodiversity
Amid a plethora of heavy jargon that the internet throws at us at all times, one must have come across the words ‘neurotypical’ and ‘neurodivergent’. Everybody is talking about them…
Socialization: How does it benefit mental and physical health
The process through which individuals are taught to be experienced members of a society is known as socialization. It narrates the ways in which people come to recognize and accept…
Beggary – An organized crime in Pakistan
In Pakistan today, it is nearly impossible to go out in public and not being stopped by a beggar. Ragged clothes, muddy feet without any shoes, and a memorized “script”…
Low Income: Not a Curse
Stale food, old clothes, leftover items, and toys our kids don’t find attractive enough. That’s all we have to give to our maids, no? And still, we expect complete sincerity…
Kaavan – World’s loneliest elephant
After waiting for more than 35 years, Kaavan is no longer world’s loneliest elephant. The animal was kept in the Marghuzar Zoo in Islamabad. Although the zoo was built just…
Social and Physical Bullying
In today’s date, we fail to have a complete understanding of the difference between social and physical bullying. What is bullying? Bullying. It’s such a strong word, such a frightening…
Lights, Camera, Transgression: Mental Health Misrepresented?
“False portrayal is worse than no portrayal” – Sara Metwalli There is no denial of the role that the media plays in shaping the mindsets of the masses, particularly about…
The Inequality that exists throughout in form of Poverty
A community-based condition that is distinguished by a certain minimum point of the standard of living expected for the place where one lives or the lack of resources mandatory for…
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
In a world where evil runs rampant, where the innocent are locked up and the abusers live free, where lies are mostly portrayed as the truth, where friends turn into…
Environment in Pakistan: Overview and Analysis
Karachi rainfalls, Lahore’s smog, and melting Himalayas are just some of the examples of climate change in Pakistan. Pakistan has a minute contribution to total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission,…
Medical Malpractice in Pakistan
There is perhaps, no greater paradox than the healthcare system of Pakistan. Very few professions garner the amount of adoration and blind trust as those in Pakistan’s hospitals while also…
Julie’s case – The increase in discrimination against the Transgender Community.
Imagine being disowned by your own family. Imagine being forced to live with strangers. Imagine being forced to beg on the streets for the rest of your life. Imagine being…
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR PREVALENT IN TEENAGERS
Antisocial personality disorder; A war with yourself Antisocial behavior simply put is a disruptive behavior where alarm and distress is caused. Disregard for others as well as one’s own self….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sexual Violence in Indian occupied Kashmir
“These soldiers grabbed me, tore my pheran, my shirt – I don’t even know what happened after that. There were five of them. I still remember their faces.” This was…
The Reality of Child Labour in Pakistan
In preindustrial economies, child labour was an intrinsic part of the society primarily because the welfare and the productivity of the community was dependent on it. At the time the…
The dreadful Year for Kashmir
One year has passed since the life of 12.5 million Kashmiris changed tremendously. On August 5, 2019, Article 370 was revoked by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which stripped off…
The faulted crux of our animalistic evolution
Since the start of civilization, there has been a deep-rooted relationship between humankind and animals. If we were to trace our steps back in history, the relation has always been…
A World Without Water
2020 has been a challenging year for everybody so far as it brought changes to the world that none of us had ever imagined. Life is changing daily and these…