International A Return To The Dark Ages: Women Under Taliban Control In Afghanistan 20/08/2021 Author: Javaria Ahmad After a 20-year long occupation, the United States decided to fully withdraw its troops from the country, allowing the Taliban to refill the power vacuum. In the…
International Uncovering the Past: The Discovery of Unmarked Graves in Canada and the Plight of Indigenous Communities 17/08/2021 Author: Javaria Ahmad After news broke out about the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, the Cowessess First Nation decided to…
Miscellaneous Tales from the Town Hall: Q&A with Dr. Adnan Zahid 09/08/202109/08/2021 Authors: Aiman Rahman, Areej Akhtar, Maha Uzair As soon as the clock struck four today, LUMS students frantically began rummaging back and forth through emails to find the Zoom link for…
Miscellaneous Mr. Khan and His Series of U-Turns 07/08/202107/08/2021 You would think that an Oxford graduate with a considerable amount of exposure and awareness would have a better understanding of the world. Unfortunately, that is not the case with…
Politics The Afghan Dagger 16/07/2021 Author: Muhammad Yousif Khan If you watch the movie ‘Prince of Persia: Sands of time’, you will notice that the story revolves around the pursuit of a dagger that can turn…
National… Caretakers of Islam: Throwing Caution to the Wind 13/07/2021 Author: Muhammad Rafeh The highest law of our land reads ‘The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’. In Pakistan, the caretakers of Islam are often called mullahs or maulvis,…
Entertainment… A Review of the Painfully Chaotic Midsummer Chaos 10/07/202110/07/2021 From one saas-bahu drama to another, it seems that the Pakistani entertainment industry tends to keep different, out-of-the-box storylines at an arm’s length. Midsummer Chaos is a web series that…
Miscellaneous Verses of Vengeance: When Protest and Poetry Met in Palestine 06/07/202106/07/2021 “Even though they walk daily to the gallows, Palestinians would rather love life where death is king than live life where love is dead.” ~ Yousef Khanfar When Israeli forces…
LUMS News “Campus in Fall: To open, or not to open? That is the question” by Areej Akhtar, Maha Uzair & Aiman Rahman 20/06/202121/06/2021 Receiving the email “We hope you are keeping well and safe in these unprecedented times” has become a source of agitation for the majority of us at this point. We have…
Politics Censorship, Deception, Weasel-Wording: How Western Media Whitewashes Israeli Apartheid and Settler-Colonialism 27/05/2021 As the Israeli military relentlessly continues to launch bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, gravely injuring 1500 Palestinians, killing 212, of which 61 were children, Western media outlets report on…
