Chronicling the Ascent of Mohammad Jibran Nasir
Imagine receiving the following call from the Taliban one day: “If you don’t take your actions back, and if you don’t stop harassing the imam of the Red Mosque, then you are putting yourself, your family and your people at risk”. How would you react? Many would go into hiding; most would […]
Homeless: Please Help
home·less adjective (of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets. I have a house. Not a home; a house. You see, one resides in a house. One lives in a home. One feels “at home” in a home. My house is in New York. But I’ve yet to find […]
The Societal Seesaw: Back and Forth Between Oppression and Freedom
As one of the youngest girls in my family, I’ve always been encouraged to spread my wings and change the idea of what a woman is in society. Of course, on the road towards fulfilling my dreams, whatever they were at that specific moment since as children we go through many phases, namely wanting to […]
Pakistan’s Struggle with Pediatric Heart Care
Pakistan is a nation of more than 200 million people. One of the problems associated with this number is the lack of attention given by the government to public healthcare; specifically focusing on the issue of pediatric heart care. According to BBC news, Pakistan has unfortunately one of the highest rates of children born […]
The Child’s Burden
The concept of innocence is not a complicated one, but it is the innocent who often find themselves in numerous complications – too much for individuals to dare claim their world has even grasped the idea of achieving any kind of social justice. The innocents of this world suffer on the watch of both the […]
Effects of Education on Empowerment
Discrimination is abusive behavior in all forms; however, it is at its worst when it lies between men and women prescribing predetermined gender roles. One of the most prominent cases of a country struggling with the competing dynamics of development, modernization, religion, and tradition is indeed Pakistan, the sixth most populous country on earth. The […]