[caption id="attachment_29591" align="alignleft" width="400"] Kaiser Bengali is an economist.[/caption] Pakistan is back at the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) door. Like any banker extending loans to a business, the IMF seeks…
19-year-old Alina* fidgets with her hands as she awaits her post-abortion check-up. A week since she first came to the clinic for the procedure, memories of the day she was…
While the world was busy celebrating the new year on January 1, 2010, in a remote corner of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the new dawn was marked by a thundering bomb…
It will be a long time before I can erase from memory pictures of a girl child with tears running down her face, bedecked in red, standing beside a leering…
In a society riven by social inequalities, moving abroad is often seen as the magic key to unlock a prosperous future. While both skilled and unskilled workers take up opportunities…
On May 15, the Islamic State (IS) announced the existence of its province in Pakistan, ‘Wilayah Pakistan.’ The announcement came alongside the claim of two gun attacks, both in Balochistan…
