Asia

My childhood was a lie!

Express Tribune: Ushah Kazi. Close your eyes and think of your childhood. What stories did you hear? Which fairytale was your favourite? Which princess did you want to be like? It doesn’t matter because they were all lies. The creepy origins of the stories that we associate with our childhood, […]

What’s going on in Pakistan?

Mid Day:   Sushant Singh. Last Saturday, Shri Rama Pir Mandir, a century-old Hindu temple in Soldier Bazaar in Karachi, along with surrounding houses of the Hindus, was destroyed by the authorities. Although the Sindh High Court is hearing a petition on the matter, Karachi police denied the existence of […]

Desperate Women At Risk of Exploitation

Source: Jakarta Globe Indonesia is increasingly seen as a lucrative new market for international drug cartels and smugglers. This is no surprise given that the illicit drug trade in the country is now worth more than $4 billion annually. According to the National Narcotics Agency, there are between 3.8 million […]

Can the Philippines stand up to China?

Philippines News: The current standoff on Scarborough Shoal between the Philippines and China only serves to highlight this country’s marked inadequacy in patrolling and defending its borders. The fact that Scarborough (Panatag to Filipinos) Shoal is on the country’s continental shelf just 124 nautical miles from Zambales—well within its 200-mile exclusive […]

Counterfeit coins— Yasser Latif Hamdani

Daily Times: The writ of the state has been compromised all over Pakistan. We now need to seriously rethink our priorities and decide whether we want to allow this theatre to continue any further The grand old man of Jinnah’s Pakistan, the unparalleled Ardeshir Cowasjee, died last month. This great […]