Tag: Rafia Zakaria
Lost in Xinjiang- Rafia Zakaria
SAKANDAR Hayat is a Pakistani who had settled in the Uighur city of Kashgar. There he ran a successful garment business. His wife...
Unlit stoves – Rafia Zakaria
IT was supposed to be a magic solution. In the late 1990s, development professionals wanting to deliver rural women from the drudgery of...
The women will win- Rafia Zakaria
IT was the Saturday after the tragedy when women came out to protest in Karachi. Some days earlier, in the early hours of Wednesday,...
‘Repulsive’ & ‘primitive’ – Rafia Zakaria
HISTORY is revealed quite slowly in the US. This is particularly true of its presidential history. Long, painstakingly compiled records of telephone calls, conversations,...
Rain and romance- Rafia Zakaria
IT begins with the television anchors. As clouds gather over Karachi they begin their strange song. The weather is going to become ‘pleasant’, they...
Politics, not economics- Rafia Zakaria
VIEWED from afar, Pakistani women seem to be doing quite well. The rates of urbanisation in the country have risen and more women than...
A fair-trade world- Rafia Zakaria
RECENTLY, the World Bank authorised a loan of Rs84 billion to Pakistan. The money was apparently disbursed from the Resilient Institutions for Sustainable...
The pandemic depression- Rafia Zakaria
IN the midst of a crisis, whether it’s battle or crime or, in the case of most of the world, a pandemic, there is...
Procuring vaccines- Rafia Zakaria
ADAR Poonawalla and his father Cyrus Poonawalla are betting big on vaccines. Even before the vaccine being developed by researchers at Oxford University has...
End of an era?- Rafia Zakaria
IT seemed that the age of Trump would never end. In January and February and most of March, the American economy was running strong....