Assadullah Channa

  A child with a stunted body carries a much larger story than a health statistic. In Pakistan, child malnutrition has remained stubbornly high for…

  KARACHI Press Club came into the limelight once again as scores of families protested against the widespread transmission of HIV among their children, demanding…

  BEHIND the high walls of Pakistan’s prisons, a quiet crisis continues to deepen. Designed to reform offenders, correctional facilities have become severely overcrowded due…

  ON 5 June 2026, Quetta’s Civil Hospital became the site of yet another act of gendered brutality. Dr. Mahnoor Nasir, a young physician, was…

DESPITE contributing less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, Pakistan is among the top ten most climate-vulnerable nations in the world. In response to…

THE ongoing US-Iran war has disrupted the production and supply of life-saving medicines and crucial infant milk formula in Pakistan, highlighting the weaknesses in preparedness,…

ON 6 March, Pakistan’s senior economic leadership held a press briefing to announce an unprecedented increase in fuel prices. Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar linked…

ACCORDING to Daily Dawn, nearly one million children were missed and about 53,000 families refused vaccination during Pakistan’s latest nationwide polio campaign. Although officials say…

TERRORISM remains a serious challenge in Pakistan, affecting security, governance and social cohesion. Militant violence has targeted civilians and state institutions, creating economic and humanitarian…

Centuries ago, the great Muslim scholar Ibne Khaldun, in his masterpiece, “The Mu-qaddimah”, argued that excessive taxation often precipitated the decline of empires, reducing revenues…