South China Morning Post • 7th August 2024

Opinion | Pakistan’s Olympic team of 7 reflects sad lack of youth investment

This is shamefully low for a country which has 64 per cent of its population under the age of 30. Almost 30 per cent of the population is between the age of 15 and 29 years. A large proportion of Pakistan’s population is of prime sporting age, but this figure points towards youth having little to no sports opportunities.

Looking at Pakistan’s contingent at the 2024 Paris Olympics, one can only think how the cards are stacked against its athletes. Of its seven athletes, three of them were wild c...

ABC Religion & Ethics • 18th April 2023

How Ramadan strengthens my faith and deepens my connection to others - ABC Religion & Ethics

This year Ramzan has been different for me. (Note: “Ramadan” is pronounced “Ramzan” in South Asian languages like Urdu, Hindi, and Bangla — it is, consequently, the pronunciation I am most at home with.)I’ve recently moved to Darwin from Brisbane. While I’m still adjusting to life in this new city, I am amazed by how instantly familiar the rhythms of Ramzan are. I wake up before dawn, eat and drink whatever I feel like, stop at the precise moment I hear the morning call to prayer, the fajr, and...

The Friday Times • 16th December 2021

Fragile Heritage Ecologies: A New Framework For Mountain Preservation

The Friday Times is Pakistan’s first independent weekly, founded in 1989.TFT offers a diverse range of perspectives on national and international issues.

The Friday Times • 12th December 2021

Gilgit And Beyond: Developing The Fragile Mountain Communities

The Friday Times is Pakistan’s first independent weekly, founded in 1989.TFT offers a diverse range of perspectives on national and international issues.

The Friday Times is Pakistan’s first independent weekly, founded in 1989.TFT offers a diverse range of perspectives on national and international issues.

The Friday Times • 28th September 2018

Rethinking development

The Friday Times is Pakistan’s first independent weekly, founded in 1989.TFT offers a diverse range of perspectives on national and international issues.

Daily Times • 9th December 2017

'Flawed' studies relied upon by the SC to give green signal to Orange Line - Daily Times

Kamil Khan Mumtaz, renowned architect and the petitioner in the Orange Line Metro Train case, has expressed disappointment with the Supreme Court judgement issued on Friday.
Speaking to Daily Times, Mumtaz said from day one the government had shown disregard for the crucial issue of vibrations during construction activity which are likely to affect heritage sites.“The source of the vibrations has not been measured correctly. The companies commissioned to do so simply lacked the knowledge of cons...

Daily Times • 2nd November 2017

Punjab in a hurry to formulate smog policy, but lacks air quality monitoring equipment - Daily Times

Lahore: The provincial government of the Punjab has prepared a policy to deal with the recurring problem of smog at this time of the year. The draft for the Policy on Controlling Smog 2017 has been prepared in consultation with the Environmental Protection Council (EPC) headed by Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and featuring 35 leading environmental experts on its board. These experts are responsible for providing expertise and advice on policy formation.
When Daily Times contacted a member of the...

Daily Times • 25th October 2017

Heritage Now draws attention to need for sustainable development - Daily Times

“The Heritage Now festival was a success in many ways, but it could have been more audience-centric,” said Festival Curator Rahimeen Ahmad.
She spoke to Daily Times on the concluding day of the festival.Though the festival attracted a sizeable crowd, Ahmed felt that with a little more planning the discussion sessions could have resonated better with the right audience.
“I know for a fact that some panelists felt that the audience was not responsive to the ideas they were expressing,” she said, “...

Daily Times • 28th September 2017

Watershed moment for Pakistan Cricket - Daily Times

For many in the current Pakistan team,the Independence Cup was the first time playing in the country they represent and defending a title in front of a home crowd. For Babur Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Faheem Ashraf, Shahdab Khan, Hasan Ali and Rumman Raees, years of playing away from home and being watched by the Pakistani diaspora communities all over the world could not equal playing on home soil. Pakistani captain Sarfaraz Ahmad confirmed this when he said, “I can assure all Pakistan cricket fans th...

Daily Times • 19th September 2017

Lankesh’s murder and extremism in India - Daily Times

When journalists, activists, researchers or anyone who writes for a living are targeted for their work, they are posthumously recognised far and wide. But when they are alive, those echelons of fame are hard to come by. In aspiring to do so, some pay for it with their lives.
Pakistanis have often headlined on notable publications, but often as ones who have been killed for transgressing the inviolable boundaries that exist in severely violent societies.Journalists, in their endeavours to investi...