Umair Javed
Air quality is an issue that cannot be privatised beyond the mere use of air purifiers in private spaces.
Updated 11 Nov, 2024 12:05pm
In the backdrop of compromised intentions and context, the parliament may very well end up delegitimising itself.
Updated 28 Oct, 2024 09:17am
Hard-liners did not necessarily have the upper hand in movements from day one.
Updated 14 Oct, 2024 09:34am
Accustomed to being a handmaiden of the executive, parliament now appears enslaved.
Updated 30 Sep, 2024 09:28am
Punjabi cultural revival is necessary for a more progressive and tolerant Pakistan.
Updated 16 Sep, 2024 09:42am
This current moment, amidst Arshad’s achievement and cricket’s decay, can act as an inflection point for other sports.
Updated 02 Sep, 2024 09:46am
Greater connectivity and educational attainment lead to heightened expectations and aspirations.
Published 19 Aug, 2024 07:44am
These movements represent popular discontentment at militarisation, violence, and the absence of development.
Updated 05 Aug, 2024 08:57am
The underlying reality is that the status quo of the past few decades is proving itself to be largely unsustainable.
Updated 22 Jul, 2024 08:51am
It is no wonder that every other conversation within the white-collar salaried class is about foreign migration.
Updated 08 Jul, 2024 09:09am
Every case of violence will reveal actors of these three types — the ideologue, the activist, and the passive supporter.
Updated 24 Jun, 2024 09:22am
It is worth focusing on regional variations that can help explain the overall outcome of India’s recent polls.
Updated 10 Jun, 2024 10:17am
It provides yet more proof that the undergirding logic of public authority in Pakistan is legal and extra-legal coercion rather than legitimised consent.
Updated 27 May, 2024 09:23am
Pakistani decision-makers salivate at the prospect of a one-party state but without paying attention to those additional ingredients.
Updated 13 May, 2024 09:07am
Explanations for BJP’s rise and the reconfiguration of Indian politics offer both cultural and economic factors.
Published 29 Apr, 2024 06:55am
Finally, the cultural agenda of neoliberalism is also being challenged, both in the West and abroad.
Updated 15 Apr, 2024 09:48am
It is necessary to look at a significant public intervention as the response of a system weighed under a lopsided power structure.
Updated 01 Apr, 2024 10:09am
There is something dystopic about the fact that two children born a few hundred metres apart can have drastically different
Published 18 Mar, 2024 07:02am
In Pakistan’s current space-time configuration, the language of politics has changed dramatically.
Updated 04 Mar, 2024 09:44am
It is useful to draw out some trends that emerge from these otherwise compromised polls.
Updated 19 Feb, 2024 11:31am
