by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 27, 2023Every year, hundreds of women in Nepal succumb to preventable deaths from excessive bleeding and high blood pressure, a new report by the National Statistics Office showed. More alarmingly, a significant number of maternal deaths, during pregnancy or after childbirth, are occuring due to a non-maternity cause, suicide, which also is preventable. Of the 611 maternal deaths on which the study was based, 67 percent occurred…
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Editorial in Dawn, February 1st, 2023A RECKONING is called for, a reckoning unlike that which this nation has ever seen. It must happen now — or, as surely as night follows day, more bestial acts of violence like that which took place in Peshawar on Monday will continue to claim the lives of innocent Pakistanis. And it must come from those who sowed the seeds of a disastrous policy that is once again reaping a…
Blood of our children
by Farrukh Khan Pitafi in The Express Tribune, Dec 16th, 2023.The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist.……December 16 will remain a day of infamy in the annals of Pakistani history for two reasons. First, the loss of its eastern wing. Second, the murder of our children by terrorists. Our collective imagination has found interesting ways to deal with this double whammy. For the fall of East Pakistan, we have found ways to reinvent history. Day…