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Syed Namdar Ali Shah

Syed Namdar Ali Shah

The Express Tribune

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Poverty by design

The new World Bank report Reclaiming Momentum Towards Prosperity is a brutal reminder that Pakistan's growth and development model has chewed through...

13.10.2025 70

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Syed Namdar Ali Shah

Disposable childhoods

From the moment a Pakistani child draws its first breath, authorities and society look the other way. From hospitals to schools and madrassas to...

30.09.2025 20

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Syed Namdar Ali Shah

When power protects predators

Pakistani children are hunted everywhere, every single day in plain sight while those tasked with their protection shield the predators lurking in...

21.09.2025 40

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Feasting on Pakistan

Those at the top are feasting on this country's very flesh and bones — as if shame were extinct — ripping them apart with unapologetic teeth and...

07.09.2025 80

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Fake piety, real blood

Honour killings happen every day in Pakistan. But only a few make it into a police file. Even fewer stir public outrage. Suddenly officials jolt...

27.08.2025 30

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Stop raising sacrifices

This picks up where my earlier piece 'Born unwelcome' left off. After the unwelcome birth of a girl comes her next unforgivable crime: the right to be...

08.08.2025 20

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Syed Namdar Ali Shah

The children we sacrifice

Pakistani children aren't safe. That's not opinion or exaggeration. It's the bleak, burning truth we keep looking away from. They're ignored,...

24.07.2025 100

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No country for women

Here we go again! Another year, another depressing number. According to the 2025 Global Gender Gap Report, Pakistan now ranks dead last: 148 out of...

14.07.2025 100

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Pakistan's poverty is political

By any decent standard, Pakistan is broke: not in fiscal lingo or glossy budgetary graphs but broke in a way that gnaws at the stomach. World Bank...

30.06.2025 80

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Born unwelcome

Many claim daughters are a blessing. They gush about how much they love their sisters. They insist women deserve respect. But the truth hits the...

19.06.2025 40

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Syed Namdar Ali Shah

K-P is abandoning children

Let's call it what it is: K-P is abandoning its children. Not metaphorically, not in the way people toss around, 'Oh, the system is broken.' No. The...

05.06.2025 40

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Mirror to the rulers

Each year, the HRCP's report sparks a familiar ritual: civil society erupts in outrage, the state stays mute and the powerful grow defensive. The 2024...

26.05.2025 20

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Gaza genocide without global gaze

What's unfolding in Gaza isn't a war; it's barbarity in its rawest form. Homes flattened, tents scorched, hospitals shattered, roads cratered,...

14.05.2025 30

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Starving the stateless

Isn't it hard to fathom surviving on just 20 cents a day? But as of April 1, over 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are stuck living on...

03.05.2025 50

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The world is failing Sudan's children

The world has an unsettling tendency to pick and choose which humanitarian crises are worthy of outrage. Right now, Sudan has fallen through the...

25.04.2025 40

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Syed Namdar Ali Shah