Rafia Zakaria

Struggling for wheat flour

It is impossible not to wonder whether this will ever end. Clearly, more needs to be done. Updated 05 Apr, 2023 09:28am

Israel flounders

It is entirely possible that the Israelis are done with the autocratic drivel falling off the lips of a man they once thought... Published 30 Mar, 2023 04:58am

Climate catastrophe looms large

A new report warns of a world where it will be impossible to cope with the effects of climate change. Updated 22 Mar, 2023 09:50am

In the belly of tech

In the US, money in accounts insured by the federal government cannot just disappear because a bank collapses. Published 15 Mar, 2023 07:14am

The other half

So complete is the devaluation of women in society that our little girls are raised on a steady diet of misogyny. Published 08 Mar, 2023 06:45am

Desperate to reach foreign shores

It is a depressing truth that while the rich party on in Pakistan, the poor are bereft of hope. Updated 01 Mar, 2023 09:34am

Deadly drivers

The sons of the wealthy treat the country’s roads like a videogame — the pedestrians and motorcyclists they mow down are not real people. Updated 22 Feb, 2023 09:28am

Strange objects in the sky

It is not the first time ‘unspecified flying objects’ have been observed over the US. Published 15 Feb, 2023 07:03am

Devastated by disaster

What criteria are being applied to the fast-proliferating high-rises all over Pakistan to make them earthquake-resistant? Updated 08 Feb, 2023 09:24am

Topsy-Turvy Land

These are not ordinary times; they are truly terrible times. Updated 01 Feb, 2023 10:47am

The climate action conversation

There is an unfairness about questions that demand that the world’s suffering encapsulate their concerns in a soundbite. Updated 25 Jan, 2023 09:49am

Brain games

The exodus is not a bad thing. Pakistan’s beleaguered and shrinking economy is not producing jobs at a rate that can employ... Published 18 Jan, 2023 06:55am

Dead girls

Victim-blaming is endemic. Had the girls locked all their doors? Were they being careful in making sure no one was following them? Published 11 Jan, 2023 07:04am

Happy new year…?

Lockdowns are now a thing of the past, but going anywhere can be forbiddingly expensive. Published 04 Jan, 2023 07:01am

Afghanistan or ‘Isolation-istan’?

The diplomatic cutting off of Afghanistan extends to its citizens. Updated 28 Dec, 2022 08:36am

Working abroad

The drastic reduction in cost that remote work offers is likely to impact the way new companies are set up... Published 21 Dec, 2022 07:18am

The sandwich dilemma

How will entitled Emirati citizens square ‘working’ a job with the special status they are used to expecting for themselves? Updated 14 Dec, 2022 08:15am

No end to violence

The bullets they fire at themselves miss the mark, but the blows and wounds they inflict on women are always accurate. Updated 07 Dec, 2022 09:23am

Dubai gobbling

The sum of this city’s life is the consumption of goods and the show of money. The wealthy buy apartments at the Burj and the less Updated 30 Nov, 2022 08:34am

Slave to the game

The fact is that most workers in Qatar are irrelevant and replaceable, and live entirely at the whim of their employers. Updated 23 Nov, 2022 08:35am