Tag: Huma Yusuf article in Dawn News
Words betray us By Huma Yusuf
WHAT’S in a word? Everything. In a week when miners have been brutally executed, the US Capitol mobbed, and tens of thousands have...
Anti-media trend By Huma Yusuf
IT has been a bleak year in most respects. So it’s not surprising to learn that 2020 has also been a dire year...
Media literacy By Huma Yusuf
Sinister. Sanctionable. There are many ways to describe the network of anti-Pakistan, India-linked NGOs and fake media organisations uncovered by the EU DisinfoLab....
The biggest problem By Huma Yusuf
The first step is always the same: admitting you have a problem. Once the denial is overcome, the problem solving can begin. But how...
Neutral platforms?By Huma Yusuf
NO matter what the outcome of the US election tomorrow, there will be one clear loser: Facebook. The social media giant knows that...
Jarring absence By Huma Yusuf
THE plane carrying the Afghan government delegation that set off for Doha to engage with the Afghan Taliban carried a roughly equal number of...
Shrinking spaces By Huma Yusuf
WHAT will be the fate of Pakistan’s literary, artistic and cultural festivals in the coronavirus era? This may seem a tangential question in light...
Climate denial By Huma Yusuf
GREENLAND’S ice sheet melted more in 2019 than any previous year on record. It was easy to miss this news, amidst more seemingly...
Digital wars By Huma Yusuf
SET aside nukes, the tech wars have begun. US President Donald Trump last week ordered the ban of TikTok and WeChat, social media apps...
Silence won’t pay By Huma Yusuf
THE drone footage showed hundreds of men, shaved, blindfolded, shackled. Western countries saw this as evidence of what is being termed as ‘genocide’ against...