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Child marriages: coerced adulthood and the loss of innocence
According to UNICEF, Pakistan has the sixth highest number of absolute child brides in the world
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Khalilur Rehman and the fragile male ego
Our society gives men the absolute right and liberty of being vulgar and inappropriate, both privately and publicly
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The boxing girls of Lyari
The girls currently receiving training are enthusiastic about the sport and optimistic about its future in the country
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Can Pakistan's economic decay be halted?
After failing to balance the books, the government was forced to ask the IMF for a bailout in 2018
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Was Pakistan always destined to become an Islamic republic? – Part 2
Islam's role in the creation of Pakistan cannot be ignored nor that Muslims inhabiting it were largely conservative
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Was Pakistan always destined to become an Islamic republic? - Part 1
After partition, Islamists began demanding the Islamic state that they believed Jinnah had promised
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How karo-kari continues to haunt Sindh
Unfortunately, many in Sindh do not even deem honour killing a crime, calling it a matter of their izzat
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In conversation with Pervez Hoodbhoy – Part 3: South Asian politics and culture
“Muhammad Ali Jinnah had no vision of what Pakistan should become,” says Professor Hoodbhoy
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In conversation with Pervez Hoodbhoy – Part 2: Pakistan’s language conundrum
“Let’s not make language the touchstone of enlightenment,” says Professor Hoodbhoy
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Corporal punishment: Legalised aggression with deadly consequences
A six-year-old was mercilessly thrashed with a cane at a school in Attock for not remembering a lesson assigned to him