Peaceful protest is the right of a political party, but not the right to engage in thuggery or incite chaos. Amir Muhammad Khan Amid the economic and political phase Pakistan is currently traversing, the country is in greater need of peace, stability, and economic continuity than of street clashes, institutional confrontations, and political tension. The public is already grappling with issues regarding inflation, employment, and the costs of electricity, fuel, and daily necessities. In such a climate, if political parties disrupt daily life in the name of protest—blocking highways, turning…
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PIMS Reforms Pakistan: What the Inquiry Report Found and What Comes Next
More than three weeks after a fire killed 14 newborns at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan now has a full picture of what went wrong. A 43-page inquiry report has laid out the causes, the failures and a long list of PIMS reforms the government has been ordered to carry out, starting with a strict three-month deadline for the most urgent fixes. This piece walks through what the PIMS inquiry actually found, why the government is treating this as a wider health-sector problem rather than a one-hospital issue,…
Read MoreSocial Media Age Limit Debate: What Pakistan’s Push for Regulation Really Means
Pakistan is having a conversation it has put off for years: should children under 16 be allowed on social media at all, and if so, on what terms? A petition now before the Islamabad High Court and a resolution moved in the Punjab Assembly have turned that question from a dinner-table argument into something closer to policy. Summary Two separate efforts are pushing in the same direction. The Islamabad High Court is hearing a case asking for a legal framework and age-verification system for young social media users. Separately, Punjab…
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