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It’s 3 in the morning. And I’m tired. My legs hurt. My back hurts. I have a severe headache. My heels… oh… they are so tender that I can’t touch them on the ground anymore. So basically, I’m toe walking now. I’m a doctor and have been working as a general surgery resident for […]
Pakistan cricket has two permanent misfortunes: one; its inconsistent cricket in ground, two; players alleged involvement in spot fixing. A player like Wasim Akram, whose name always pops up in mind whenever great fast bowling is mentioned. His illustrious cricketing career spans over 19 years. An epitome of high-class fast bowling, having smooth run-up, effortless […]
What happened? A young boy with non-binary nature is bullied day in and day out by boys in his home town, school, college and professional environment. He chooses not to continue his professional career- engineering, and opts for a traditionally associated profession of a khawaja sara dancer. A couple of weeks ago he came into spot […]
With the US readiness to leave Afghanistan after clinching a face-saving deal from the recent talks in Doha, the post-peace Afghanistan will attract influence-obsessed countries like India, Iran, and to some extent Pakistan. Emergence of India’s interest The role of India in Afghan’s polity surfaced in late 1996, when Northern Alliance, mainly constituted the Tajiks, […]
COVID-19 has devastated the world entirely. In the present scenario, U.S.A is the most affected country by COVID-19 outbreak, where above one million patients have been registered to date. A leaked British government report, published by the financial times, had even outlined an extreme scenario that sees up to 80 percent of the UK public […]
I observed the people hailing and chanting the police encounter of child rapists and murderers, carried out under the supervision of CPO Faisalabad. Although it is quite self-satisfying to see the execution of such brutal and inhuman perpetrators but in a larger scenario, it presents a very dark picture of a flawed and crooked justice […]
When we talk about Justice it comes to our mind that it is a way of compensating the aggrieved and punishing the wrongdoer in the ways which are deemed suitable according to the established law and the cultural norms of a society. In primitive times, tribes, settlements, or communities had different ways to exercise justice […]
The day when the boundary was chalked on the face of subcontinent everyone was so much busy in setting their own affairs straight that no one was able to hear the flaps of butterfly’s wing that were about to cause a tornado. Instead of discussing the other side of line we will only discuss about […]
Institutions around the World: In a famous book, “Why Nations Fail,” Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson have focused on the causes of the failure of different nations around the world. They have asserted that institutions around the world, be they political or economic are mostly of two types i.e. extractive and inclusive. Countries with […]
The world is in crisis. With industries closed, markets deserted, vehicles plummeted and almost every activity on halt, the planet Earth is trying to take some rest. Covid-19 has hit the world quite hard. The scenario is grim as the world has not an optimum solution to the pandemic. Since, 11 March, when Covid-19 was […]