National Government Action Against TLP: too little, too late? 17/04/2021 Every political party in Pakistan, before coming into power, has made questionable alliances with the religious right parties, the most recent example being PML-N’s alliance with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). Making…
Politics… Fahashi and Rape: The PM’s Questionable Perspective 15/04/2021 By now, everyone is aware of what Imran Khan’s comments were regarding rape. Just to reiterate, he stated that “Ye jo parday ka concept hai, ye kya hai? Temptation na…
Politics 1971. 27/03/2021 War, Violence and Memory was a conference many looked forward to. It seemed only fitting that we reflect upon the 1971 War and the events that led up to it…
Miscellaneous The Ungentle Underbelly 15/03/2021 The purpose of this essay is to make a delicate incision through your thick skull and offer you a sip of mine. The human skull does not have sensory neurons,…
LUMS News #LUMSKHOLO: The Campus Reopening Protest 29/01/2021 On Monday, 25th January, around sixty students took to the streets outside LUMS to protest the HEC directives communicated by LUMS with regards to campus re-opening. While students claim that…
Educational… Campus Reopening: A U-Turn? 27/01/202127/01/2021 Pakistani politicans are not the only ones who take sudden U-turns, thereby decimating the public's hopes and aspirations. The LUMS administration also meanders down these unforeseen curves, bends and U-turns,…
National… Aftermath of Charlie Hebdo cartoons 26/11/2020 September 2020 saw the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and subsequently, an attack was carried out by Islamic extremists outside the former headquarters of…
Social Issues On The Rise: Spiralling Rape Cases 07/10/2020 TW: Rape Rape. An ever-growing sadistically, heinous crime, happening to people all around the world regardless of age, gender, and species. In Pakistan alone, over ten thousand cases were…
Miscellaneous… How the Catastrophic Storms in Karachi are Making Life Unliveable? 02/09/202002/09/2020 2020 has been a tough year for Pakistan so far. The unexpected wave of Coronavirus caused numerous casualties and brought life to a complete halt. Now when people had only…
Miscellaneous Is This My Pakistan? 26/08/2020 What comes to your mind when you think of the country, Pakistan? Do you think it is a place that our founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, would be proud of? Well,…
