Rafia Zakaria
Why do we allow an emotional connection to be formed with those we do not personally know?
Published 15 Jan, 2025 08:31am
The dominance of a single man and his particular vision of the world can result in disastrous consequences.
Updated 08 Jan, 2025 09:12am
Even before its tenure in government, the incoming Trump administration has become beholden to billionaires.
Published 01 Jan, 2025 07:40am
Anger around the world is growing as fundamental rights are snatched away from the people.
Updated 25 Dec, 2024 09:36am
A sense of serenity and wonder persists as the tourist wanders through courtyards full of fragrant orange trees.
Published 18 Dec, 2024 07:32am
Welcome to the realm of AI as a means of talk therapy, or just some everyday companionship.
Updated 11 Dec, 2024 10:07am
The question of how the identity of millions of Indians was constructed in the minds of white Europeans is worth considering.
Updated 04 Dec, 2024 06:49pm
Women who face verbal, financial and psychological abuse are told that they are not abused at all.
Published 27 Nov, 2024 08:46am
Old residents complain of the disappearance of what were once tranquil neighbourhoods in Karachi.
Updated 20 Nov, 2024 09:23am
From maps and pickaxes, it is now possible to discover ancient relics from a distance, as in the case of a recent find.
Published 13 Nov, 2024 07:57am
The salt in Doha’s air recalls a Pakistani city on another shore that has too often been erased or overlooked in the recollections
Updated 06 Nov, 2024 11:09am
The choices before the American voters is between genocide and genocide.
Updated 30 Oct, 2024 09:30am
Many scientists believe that the real unexplored frontier lies deep in the oceans.
Published 23 Oct, 2024 05:31am
Children in poverty-stricken and under-resourced areas are the most susceptible to climate change.
Updated 09 Oct, 2024 09:47am
Prophecies are not needed. It does not take much looking around to note that the world is undergoing exceptional mayhem.
Updated 02 Oct, 2024 09:24am
The urgency of climate change is impressing itself on some countries far more than on others.
Updated 25 Sep, 2024 09:52am
An increasingly imaginary "international community" and the UN have only issued a few feeble and robotic warnings.
Updated 11 Sep, 2024 09:40am
Desperation on one hand, presented by low-skilled migrants, and peksy beggars' entitlement on the other forms a miserable image of Pakistanis.
Updated 04 Sep, 2024 09:24am
Our inner voices can be the instruments of our private rebellions, especially when they are weaponised.
Updated 28 Aug, 2024 09:00am
The root of the problem — men with depraved thoughts and capable of expressing these in the most horrific way — has to be addressed.
Updated 21 Aug, 2024 09:24am
