What does democracy mean in a country where power remains hereditary, where parliament is a hedged colony of capital?

Citizens on paper, exiles in practice, forgotten in history

The system is designed to silence exactly the voices that understand firsthand the impact of these policies

Political smiles and cultural MoUs cannot scrub intergenerational trauma

The nation is being fed with certain narratives and good ones are rewarded accordingly

Such morally grey history still defines the reality of my community

Muslim Americans have progressively entered local politics

The decree raises the legal age of marriage to 18 for both boys and girls in the ICT

The equality stance often turns out to be nothing more than a rehearsed political script.

Women in Pakistan are also unprotected everywhere, from homes to hospitals, grounds to graves, and roads to reels.