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New Waves of Feminism and Pakistan Nobody gives you power; you just take it Faridullah Despite having been through a long quest of motley waves, has feminism compassed its purported mark of gender equality in Pakistan? Ever since its independence, this beloved country of ours has been toiling to meet women rights and to bring womenfolk to the fore—making them …

Hong Kong National Security Law Explaining the Chinese move Ghufran Wakeel  On May 28, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) approved a decision to move forward with national security legislation for Hong Kong. The vote approves the standing committee to draft legislation to punish secession, subversion of state power, terrorism and acts that endanger national security in Hong Kong. Beijing has …

Fate of Populism in Post-Covid-19 World Fatima Razzaq Political trends had never been this synchronized until the turn of 21st century when the entire world saw a whole new lot of politicians rising around the globe. These world leaders, labelled populists, gained more power in years to come. The 9/11, economic crisis of 2008, and the migration crisis of 2015 …

COVID-19 and Human Rights “The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency — but it is far more. It is an economic crisis. A social crisis. And a human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis.” — António Guterres, UN Secretary-General The Covid-19 crisis has provided some political leaders with a perfect pretext to advance narrow interests, brushing …

The Collapse of Neoliberalism the ideology at the root of all our problems fades aways For 40 years, we have lived in a neoliberal era, an era defined in public policy by deregulation, liberalization, privatization and austerity. Starting with the Thatcher and Reagan revolutions, neoliberal ideas spread to capture the centre and even the left, ultimately becoming the reigning policy …

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India’s Defence Budget 2020-21 Deceptive figures, faulty analyses Amjed Jaaved For year 2020-21, India’s Modi-led BJP government has allocated Indian Rupees (INR) 3,23,053 crore (about $45.8 billion at current exchange rate) for ‘defence services’. This excludes pensions and running of the defence administration—the ministry and the departments so concerned. It is 9.37 percent higher than the budget estimates for 2019-20. …

How to Deal with Failure? Laiba Muhammad Aamir In primary schools, we are all taught the story of a spider that tries again and again to weave a web. The purpose of that story was to make us learn that one should keep on trying again and again unless one achieves one’s goal. It intended to teach us that in …