Articles by Rafia Zakaria
ON the night of Aug 13, 2026, Mir Raza Ali’s father was on TV imploring — as he had been doing for some time — for justice. It is now over two weeks since Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old businessman...
IT has happened again. Karachi — Pakistan’s largest city, financial centre and revenue generator — was ranked by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) as one of the least liveable cities in the ...
EVER since Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, the world has turned very bleak for Afghan women. As they did when they first took power in the 1990s, the Taliban immediately set about erasing wo...
THE strain had been there for a while when reports emerged that Pakistanis were being rounded up in the UAE and deported. The details, though, have not been verified and, yesterday, Pakistan’s inter...
THE occasion was a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation — a meeting which took place in the Kyrghyz capital Bishkek. Defence ministers from China and India were in attendance along with ...
ONE year after the tragic attack in Pahalgam in occupied Kashmir, India would have liked to be living in a different global reality. It would have liked to have Pakistan globally isolated. It would ha...
FOR a man not known to be particularly religious, US President Donald Trump spent a lot of time on matters of faith last weekend, prompted, perhaps, by statements made by Pope Leo. The supreme head of...
AMARA Waqas and her husband were married in 2015. Prior to her marriage, Ms Waqas had been a PAF officer. The marriage ended in January 2021. The husband retained control of the assets acquired during...
IN the end US President Donald Trump got everything he wanted. When he imposed 50 per cent tariffs on India and described it as a “dead economy”, India vowed never to bend to US bullying. Things, ...
A CENTRAL tenet of President Donald Trump’s administration is to transform the US into a white Christian nation. Towards this end, fully armed Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement a...
