Social media has inevitably become a permanent part of our lives. If a natural disaster hits the area we're living in; we flock over to Facebook to mark ourselves safe and check on our family and friends. Twitter, despite its character limits, has become a forum for every kind of political debate, mainly due to…
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CPJ’s report analysis
The recent global survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) was an eye-opener for anyone who wants to know more about the situation of press freedom all over the world. This fourth yearly report, which states that at least "250 journalists have been imprisoned around the world in 2019 so far…
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, in 2018 in Sindh alone, there were 1308 murders, 1590 attempts of murder and 3167 abductions and these numbers are only the reported ones. Due to the corruption in the police force and judiciary system, most of the cases go unreported, which means that the actual numbers are not available…
As of now, India is home to 200 million Muslims. Over the course of Narendra Modi and BJP’s tenure, the peaceful lives of Indian Muslims have been looming in the balance, as they faced threats to their autonomy and status. From religious intolerance to crackdowns and lynching, Muslims have been subject to it all in…
What is Pakistan’s Polio problem?
In the early hours of Wednesday, on December 19, unknown attackers shot at two police officers on their way to a polio vaccination drive in the Lower Dir District area near the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. The officers died on the spot. According to the local police, these officers were…
On 15th July 2019, the Amazon warehouse workers in Shakopee, Minnesota, launched a 6-hour strike on Prime Day, which is Amazon’s biggest shopping event of the year. The protest was organized to bring awareness to and protest the deplorable working conditions of Amazon workers. However, of the 100+ expected protesters, only a handful of employees showed…
Ah yes! The age-old theory of the effete, confused and archetypal male of the society, whose close bond with his mother hampers his emotional development- this dynamic captured in the vernacular with the term “Mama’s boy”
Psychoanalytical theories such as the famous Oedipus Complex by Freud have fostered this stigma surrounding boys, following them well into…
"At least 460 protesters were killed in October and November in various central and southern cities, including Baghdad," Ali al-Bayati, an Iraqi Human Rights Commission Representative said in a statement.
Al-Bayati was referring to the death toll from the anti-government protests in Iraq, which took root in October 2019 and came to a culmination on December…
“Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.”
― Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-La-Morte
A cognitive dissonance is a form of dissonance that is experienced by a person when there is a conflict between their beliefs, attitudes or behaviors. The term itself might not be used commonly in circles, but…
It has been a little over a year since the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf government led by Imran Khan took the reins of power. They were elected under suspicions of electoral fraud and third-party meddling by the establishment. The elections of 2018 had also been preceded by arrests of several notable opposition leaders, including the Sharif brothers,…