Unlike domestic violence against women in Western countries, where the perpetrators are almost exclusively men, usually acting alone and spontaneously, the honor killings are carefully planned conspiracies. By Gary C. Gambill {Phyllis Chesler, a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum, emerita professor of psychology and women’s studies, and the author of eighteen books, spoke […]
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Seventy three years ago, Pakistan was delivered out chaos, fire, sorrows and grief. Every year, we have celebrated the birth of Pakistan, with painful memories—of deadly communal riots, that have remained pegged with the story of India’s Partition, since 1947. Again, in the year 1971, a grieved nation of Bangladesh was born from the ashes […]
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The writer today unfolds a chapter of history, not so old, when dozens of Sindhi books, magazines, and over a dozen printing presses were banned during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government. These also include Tariq Ashraf’s Suhni Magazine and a printing press. Rasool Bux Palejo had fought this case at a Commission headed by Qazi Akbar, […]
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Murad receives cold response by fed govt. on his request to provide 5 more aircraft for operation against locust Locust swarms have once again started attacking standing crops in various districts of Sindh Karachi: The federal government has made available only one old aircraft with one pilot at Sukkur, which has to cover Sindh and […]
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Out of 14556 patients, 12836 are at homes, 793 at isolation centers and 927 at hospitals Death toll is 380 which constitute 1.56 percent of the total patients – Murad Shah Karachi: The total number of coronavirus patients at present in Sindh is 14556, as 9270 patients out of 24206 have recovered. Out of […]
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Writer, currently based in Kurdistan, recalls the days of his childhood, painful memories of mother’s demise and innumerable love of grandmother, scorching weather and socio-economic life of Ghotki district of Sindh, and leaving the home district for job, not only by him but other youths too instead of wasting time in waiting for govt. jobs. […]
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Closure means being “normal”, getting back to your old self, no longer crying or being affected by the death. It means “moving on with life” and leaving the past behind, even to the extent of forgetting it or ignoring it. Yet when we experience the death of a loved one, this kind of closure is […]
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This is the story of a long journey of Treasure from Bhiria, Sindh to India and then to USA. The Treasure includes over 100-years old utensils, a scale and a gramophone, which late Atmaram Khilnani, cousin of late Rai Bahadur Dewan Kauro Mal Chandan Mal Khilnani, took to India at the time of partition in […]
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Dr. Hoodbhoy stood in the center of the ring for the entire duration but Mr. Jabbar failed to come out of his corner. He sat on his stool and threw misdirected punches. Here again, Mr. Jabbar refuses to engage with Dr. Hoodbhoy’s statement head-on. By Anjum Altaf Pervez Hoodbhoy: The basis for Pakistan as articulated […]
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The nation wants to know the truth about the Airbus tragedy, which took place last Friday; survivors of the deceased need to know the answers. Our sense of integrity has left open voids, deep wounds, and prominent scars. All this has hurt us gravely. We have deemed it convenient to twist facts, avoid the whole […]
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