Articles by Zafar Mirza
Accidents are nurtured over years; they don’t happen just like that — Qabil Ajmeri
MY last column on these pages was titled ‘Collapse and consequences’. I borrowed ‘collapse’ from the inte...
THE interior minister of Pakistan had said the other day that whether “we admit it or not, this system has collapsed” and that “this system has to be reset”.
The healthcare system of Pakistan ...
“My job is making windows where there were once walls” — Michel Foucault
HIV AIDS is a window to our health system. Instead of erecting mental walls of apathy and ignorance, the spread of HIV am...
THEY fail when they exclude people from effectively participating in the political process — that is, when a powerful minority takes over the government and creates a system, including laws, for its...
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead.
AS a nuclear state and the sole arbiter of ...
ACCORDING to the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS, Pakistan has one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in Asia. Meanwhile, WHO’s Global Hepatitis Report 2026 identifies Pakistan as the single ...
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” — Hippocrates
MORE than two millennia ago, the father of modern medicine recognised something fundamental about human health: our bodies are designed to move....
DR Miftah Ismail and I co-wrote a column in these pages on Jan 9 explaining how people in Pakistan are “eating less” today than in 2018-19, despite spending more on food.
The piece created conside...
AS we close 2025, it is time to take a hard and honest look at the lay of the land of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Nearly 78 years after independence, Pakistan’s politics remains deeply unsettl...
WHEN people moan about weak health governance and corruption in the health sector, I remind them it is a small piece of a larger problem. Fixing governance issues in the health system has its limits. ...
