Opinion

By Dr Rafia Batool Khan , Climate change not only hits the newspaper headlines but also knocks at the doorstep. Each monsoon in the Pakistan heralds less like a renewal of life and more like a rehearsal for ruin. The 2025 floods, that encroached the wide stretches of industrial triangle of Sialkot, Gujrat, Gujranwala and its adjoining areas, were neither the first calamity, nor will they be the last. What has lingered, long after the waters withdrew, is something less visible yet infinitely heavier: the quiet crisis of the human mind. The flooded fields of Sambrial, a Tehsil of Sialkot district, reveal the scale of destruction left by the 2025 floods. Roads are dry and many fields re-ploughed, but the scars remain. The government’s machinery was in motion 5 teams livestock, agriculture,...

تحریر: کامران راجہ برسوں سے، بلوچ یکجہتی کمیٹی نے خود کو بلوچستان میں لاپتہ افراد کے خاندانوں کے لیے ایک پرامن آواز کے طور پر پیش کیا ہے۔ اس کے مظاہرے اور دھرنے ایک جانی پہچانی تصویر بن چکے ہیں: خواتین اپنے بیٹوں اور شوہروں کی تصویریں اٹھائے، بچے پریس کلبوں کے باہر پلے کارڈز تھامے، اور قائدین مجمعے سے پرجوش تقاریر کرتے ہوئے۔ اسلام آباد، کراچی اور کوئٹہ میں ماؤں کو کیمروں کے سامنے روتے دیکھنا صحافیوں، سیاست دانوں اور بین الاقوامی انسانی حقوق کی تنظیموں کی مستقل ہمدردی حاصل کرتا رہا ہے۔ لیکن اس جذباتی پردے کے پیچھے ایک زیادہ پریشان کن حقیقت چھپی ہوئی ہے. ایک ایسی حقیقت جس میں بلوچ یکجہتی کمیٹی محض ایک فلاحی تنظیم نہیں بلکہ بلوچ لبریشن آرمی کی سیاسی اور عملی شاخ بن چکی ہے، جو کہ صوبے کی سب سے پرتشدد عسکری تنظیم ہے۔ سیکیورٹی حکام اور مقامی مبصرین کا کہنا ہے کہ، بلوچ یکجہتی کمیٹی نے بڑی چالاک...

By Nimra Azeem Khan      As part of the Overseas Chinese Uyghur community living in Rawalpindi, I had the incredible honour of a cultural and educational visit to China. The visit beginning from Xinjiang and spanning multiple cities concluded in Beijing. This journey carried deep personal significance, reconnecting me with my ancestral roots in Xinjiang. But it was not only a journey into my own history, culture, traditions and shared heritage, but also an opportunity to closely witness the social harmony, advance development and technological advancements in China.Due to the Indo-Pak tensions and limited flight availability, I took the overland route to China. On May 18th, I began my journey from Pakistan via Khunjerab Pass. I entered China through the land border, arriving first ...

We are on the eve of the last evenings of the autumn of the year 2024. This year we are highly honoured to celebrate the ancient Iranian event of Yalda in our friendly, brotherly and neighbourly country of Pakistan along with the other countries with which we share civilizational commonalities and links.The Yalda Night, or as called in the Iranian folklore, Chele, is the longest night of the year and the beginning of the light and the rebirth of brilliance. Yalda is a turning point in the beautiful nature, at the moment of the winter solstice, which connects the leafy autumn to the ermine winter.During the millennia and throughout the old history, at the very beginning of the cold winter, this night has been regarded as an opportunity to seize the treasure and warmth of the family ...