Web archive - March 14, 2021

World

Jordan health minister sacked after oxygen outage kills seven Covid-19 patients

Jordan is facing spike in Covid-19 infections attributed mainly to variant first identified in Britain

Editorial

Ill-treating domestic help

Torture on child domestic help is reported from all over the country. Another case was recently reported in Lahore

Editorial

Famine threat

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has issued a stark warning about the state of hunger getting worse by the day

Editorial

New NA council

Council has been instructed to help avoid various “sexist, religious or ethnic slogans” delivered on the floor

Opinion

Is China the greatest geopolitical challenge of 21st century?

US policy against China unlikely to showcase any major change

Opinion

Between enlightenment and Islamophobia

A need to analyse how the silent majority in the West can resist the rising tide of intolerance, racism and xenophobia

Opinion

Covid-19: rethinking slums, urban planning

How can Covid spread in informal settlements or slums be prevented from triggering wider shocks

Opinion

Covid is not Pakistan’s deadliest ‘pandemic’

Air pollution is causing the death of over eight million people globally which is about one in five deaths each year

Pakistan

Futures suspended by a tug of war

As Sindh govt refuses to comply with HEC rules, students wonder if their qualifications will even have value

Pakistan

A judiciary held hostage

Politics within bar associations and aggression displayed by lawyers is holding court proceedings back