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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,...

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Syed Namdar Ali Shah

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

Syed Namdar Ali Shah

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

Syed Namdar Ali Shah

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

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

Syed Namdar Ali Shah

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