Why Policing is and Will Continue to Remain Political in Pakistan

Because policing has been treated as a project of political ordering and disordering, it allows for the retention and abuse for colonial frameworks. ‘All Policing is Political’ Zoha Waseem at Dawn: I read these words some time ago while exploring the works of Professor Martha Huggins, a celebrated critical criminologist who has written extensively aboutContinue reading “Why Policing is and Will Continue to Remain Political in Pakistan”

VIDEO: Everything Will Turn Out Right | سب ٹھیک ہو جائیگا

A conversation with an attorney’s chauffeur in Islamabad October 2021 اسلام آباد میں اکتوبر 2021 میں ایک وکیل کے ڈرائیور کے ساتھ گفتگو Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas, Arif Mirza, Aziz Ahmed, Bawar Tawfik, Dr. Razzak Ladha, Dr. Syed M. Ali, G. R. Baloch, Hasham Saddique, Jamil Usman,Continue reading “VIDEO: Everything Will Turn Out Right | سب ٹھیک ہو جائیگا”

Melting Greenland ice sheet could cause devastating sea level rise of nearly a foot

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could cause a devastating sea level rise of nearly a foot, reports UPI citing a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The contemporary sea level rise of around 11 inches could be “regardless of 21st-century climate pathways.” Greenland ice sheet melting is one ofContinue reading “Melting Greenland ice sheet could cause devastating sea level rise of nearly a foot”

COMMENT: ‘International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming’

According to IR textbooks, the United States, Russia, and China are on a collision course, writes Matthew Kroenig in the Foreign Policy. He’s deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. “A preventative war initiated by a primate fearful of losing its primacy is very probable,” an Asia Pacific-based defense, securityContinue reading “COMMENT: ‘International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming’”

THE CRUSH: Oscar Nominated Short Film (Video)

An 8 year old schoolboy is so besotted with his teacher that he challenges her boyfriend to a duel…to the death. Check out this latest award-winning short film, about love lost and moving on:

Too Little Too Late and Hamesha in Urdu (Video)

انگریزی کا جملہ ” ٹو لٹل ٹو لیٹ ” اور اُرْدُو کا جملہ ہمیشہ دییر کر دیتا ہوں میں ہمیشہ کوانگریزی میں ” آلویز” کہتے ہیں Irshad Salim, Islamabad (ارشاد سلیم ، اسلام آباد)