Tag: Rafia Zakaria
Cricket and the country| Rafia Zakaria
PAKISTAN needed a victory — there is little doubt about that. The past year brought unspeakable challenges: a pandemic, regional conflicts boiling over, famine...
Weddings with a difference | Rafia Zakaria
SOCIAL media, most will not be surprised to hear, has colonised the world of marriages and betrothals. Such is the invasion that matters are...
Covid forever | Rafia Zakaria
ON Sept 7, 2021, Mike Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organisation had some startling news to share. Covid-19, he believed, is...
Coronavirus and conflict | Rafia Zakaria
TWENTY years ago, on that fateful September day, the world changed forever. Even as the smoke and ash from the cataclysm was still...
Empowering themselves – Rafia Zakaria
THE goal of course was never to save Afghan women. Everyone in Afghanistan and the surrounding region knew this. But the superpower was in...
Very angry men – Rafia Zakaria
PAKISTANI women have seen everything in these arduous, long and bloody weeks. Women have been killed by husbands, killed by their in-laws, killed for...
Aid and debt – Rafia Zakaria
IN the last year from which statistics are available, the United States, arguably the only superpower left in the world, spent $300 billion in...
The wolves among us – Rafia Zakaria
THREE weeks have passed since the cruel killing of Noor Mukaddam. The accused and his suspected accomplices are in Adiala Jail, and the investigation...
Capacity for cruelty – Rafia Zakaria
WE are days away from the month of Muharram and the annual commemoration of the massacre at Karbala, where Imam Hussain, the grandson of...
Noor of our nation – Rafia Zakaria
I DID not know Noor Mukaddam personally, but I am related to her family and thus to their suffering. But one does not have...