#socialissues

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: He has probably spent a lifetime listening to the sound of trains.  Long before digital control rooms, automated signals and computerised switching became the global standard, railway workers like him stood…

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: The train is visible. So is the danger. Yet the road remains busy. A car inches forward. Motorcycles slip across the tracks. Passengers continue their journey as a locomotive approaches in the background. It…

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: There are no straight lines in this picture, only a tangle of pipes, a sluggish ribbon of blackened water, and the quiet suggestion that something essential has gone deeply wrong.Along the edge of an open…

Ali Nawaz RahimooTharparkar: Disability is not a bad word. Yet, in everyday conversation, it is often misused as a derogatory insult—a practice that is both harmful and objectionable. Equally problematic is the reluctance to openly…

News Desk Islamabad: On August 14th, Pakistanis celebrate their Independence Day with great enthusiasm and joy. This date marks the anniversary of Pakistan's emergence as a nation in 1947, a milestone achieved under the visionary…