THE DEADLY GULF DREAM
By Vital Signs Published in DAWN on March 27, 2022 A deel Riaz was only 22 years old when he died in November 2018 in Saudi Arabia. He had three older brothers and two sisters. His family are farmers in a rural region of Pakistan. And he was part of […]
Sara Suleri’s legacy
By Bina Shah Published in DAWN on March 26, 2022 SARA Suleri, the Pakistani-born writer, academic and critic, passed away at the age of 68 on March 22 in Connecticut after a long period of ill health. She was best known in Pakistan for her memoir Meatless Days, but her[…]
Yawning gap in estimates: IMF, Pakistan talks hit stalemate
By Mehtab Haider Published in The News on March 25, 2022 ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated that the Prime Minister’s Relief Package for slashing down petrol, diesel, and electricity prices as well as doling out of Kamyab Pakistan Program (KPP) loans would cost almost doubled amount of[…]
Pakistan’s climate action: a fact sheet
By Shafqat Kakakhel Published in The News on March 23, 2022 Pakistan’s actions concerning climate change have been marked by weak political commitment, reluctance to recognize that the multi-faceted effects of climate change warrant efforts by multiple segments of the government and society and, above all, inadequate institutional arrangements. Despite[…]








