Issue
May 17, 2019
Child protection, dog bites and us. Eight year old Rizwan from Shikarpur, was the 5th child to die in Karachi as a result of […]
May 27, 2019
The 42 rights of a child The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified convention in history. What […]
May 30, 2019
Building the missing child protection system “Tortured, beaten, boiling water thrown on her body and salt poured on her freshly bleeding wounds”, is how the TV […]
June 3, 2019
The pointless toy-gun notifications On June 10, 2017, the Sindh Government issued a notification to ban the sale of toy guns for a period of two […]
June 11, 2019
Community-based child protection Seven decades of noticeably worsening record of child abuse ought to have convinced us to either reform or replace our dysfunctional child protection […]
June 17, 2019
Who will find the missing child The pain and the agony of the parents of the five year old girl, missing since last 2 days, […]
June 24, 2019
The Ecuadorian remedy AMONG other recommendations, an earlier article (‘Stabilising external finances’, Dawn,) had suggested that: “the government should establish a high-level Debt Audit Committee, following Ecuador’s […]
August 10, 2019
Sindh vehicle woes https://tribune.com.pk/story/2032105/6-sindh-vehicle-woes/ Having bought and registered a new car two years back, I still drive with a temporary, stencilled, tin number plate. The Sindh […]
September 1, 2019
Can Pakistan make the ‘great escape’ One cannot continue to stand at crossroads for 72 years. There ought to be a time to settle down, to […]
September 16, 2019
Forwarding the Forwarded There is much in praise of the ‘WhatsApp’. But equally long is the list of its inflictions. WhatsApp has opened a new chapter […]
September 24, 2019
Inspired by the necropolis of Chowkandi and Makli, The Sindh government has done well in creating an equally distinguished graveyard of Commissions and Authorities. These deceased […]
September 24, 2019
Can the citizens come together ? Environmental initiatives must begin by working, campaigning and pushing for actions, beginning with your own city and country. My […]
October 5, 2019
At 5:24 pm on 30th Sept. 2019, Pakistan’s population was 217,641,492. It would be a few hundred thousand more by the time this article appears in […]
October 13, 2019
Honourable Mr. Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Sept. 2019 Your Honour, Lifting ban on prohibited bore weapons for the ruling elite This […]
October 19, 2019
Syed Murad Ali Shah, 18 October 2019 Chief Minister Sindh Dear Sir, Appeal to resurrect dysfunctional and invisible Sindh Right to Information Commission and Sindh Public […]
October 19, 2019
Accountability and transparency are the two key pillars of democracy and good governance. Sadly, these two aspects have been hugely compromised by the absence and dysfunctionality […]
November 9, 2019
An accident that was bound to happen. Every developed country has an organisation and an Act to define and manage matters relating to Occupational Health […]
November 12, 2019
Polio, population and progress. In the early twenty-first century the train of progress is again pulling out of the station – and this will probably be […]
November 21, 2019
A day without a toilet The newspaper did not want to use the word ‘Toilet’, and changed the heading to ‘Hygiene for all’ https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/570846-hygiene-for-all Pakistan’s biggest […]