Tag: Huma Yusuf article in Dawn News
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...
Domestic abuse By Huma Yusuf
ANOTHER horrifying death. Another hashtag calling for justice. The latest case concerns Sadaf Zehra Naqvi, a young mother and champion of women’s rights,...
Missing rights By Huma Yusuf
DIRE. That’s the word the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan uses to describe the state of human rights in our country. Its annual report,...
Bigger questions By Huma Yusuf
THE UK is looking ahead to a bleak Easter. The country’s death toll from the coronavirus is higher than Italy’s at the same stage...
Corona crackdown ? By Huma Yusuf
SHUTDOWNS. Lockdowns. Blanket bans. Closed borders. States of emergency (or calamity, if you’re in the Philippines). Temperature-checking drones and the surrender of mobile data...
Whose values? By Huma Yusuf
TODAY is the day after International Women’s Day. By now, the Aurat March would have taken place, hopefully without incident. And Pakistan’s honour would...