Absolutely shameful scenes in Karachi today, Sindh Police beats up civil society members protesting against religious extremism and arrests protestors: youtube.com/watch?v=vQXgtV… #SindhRawadariMarch #Sindh

Ten police women dragging a peace activist young lawyer Romasa chandio, daughter of Sindhi writer Jami Chandio outside #Karachi press club. Peace activists were there to take out peace rally against surging religious extremism in #Sindh & demanding justice for slain physician Dr.

This horrifying photo outside Karachi Press Club shows police violently attacking a journalist simply for doing their job. This is a blatant assault on press freedom and a dark day for democracy.

This a modern-day Holocaust, except this time the Nazis have nuclear weapons and the unconditional support of the world’s top superpower.

This year’s laureates in the economic sciences have helped us understand differences in prosperity between nations. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule

🚨 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 🚨 "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"

Congratulations to the Nobel prize for winning the position to award Acemoglu a prize.

The only thing stopping Birmingham doing this is people. People who make the decisions. There is no incontrovertible law of physics that says Birmingham must choke on congestion and be at the mercy of the next car to smash into something on a daily basis. Replace those people

This kind of language is trying to whitewash a genocide.

Israel has the audacity to accuse Raji Sourani, Gaza's leading human rights lawyer, of being "a terrorist in a suit and tie," yet it blows up his house in Gaza with a 2,000-pound bomb shortly after he gave an interview on @DemocracyNow. He barely escaped. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

We must understand that freshwater-not land - is constraining factor for agriculture in 🇵🇰..Provincial Irrigation & Drainage Act stipulates that govt give up all expense & cost to be paid by farmer for irrigation & drainage service A gateway to development dawn.com/news/1864944

13 villages in Swat say they would not give any portion of their land for extension of cantonment. " We don't want to become refugees in our own land.If forced to leave we would rather die in our land than be driven away"

This is your periodic reminder that some of Israel’s own leading scholars of the Holocaust and genocide, including Professor Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב at Brown and Dr. Amos Goldberg at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, say what’s happening in Gaza *is* a genocide. Trust them over this guy.

Shame on my university, McGill University , for trying to shut down a campus event featuring this brilliant, courageous woman, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt , the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 1/

War in May, water in August. Border villagers in Pakistan’s Kasur district have been uprooted twice in months. “How many times do we need to evacuate now?" asked Shama preparing to leave her home for the second time this year. My latest for Reuters: reuters.com/business/envir…

Powerful earthquake in Afghanistan leaves more than 800 dead via Financial Times on.ft.com/4n2AYy6

It is truly exhausting to share a country with Haris Rauf.

My paper on authoritarianism & corruption presents a theory of how some political leaders use the nation’s laws selectively to persecute opponents & protect cronies & how this can lead to greater corruption & full-fledged crony capitalism. kaushikbasu.org/wp-content/upl…

After nearly two years of work, we’re releasing our documentary Buhay Khulay Rakhin (Keep the Doors Open) - a film about the abducted women and abandoned children of Partition, some barely six months old, whose stories were never told. archive.lums.edu.pk/documentary/ #PartitionStories

"Redistributing the federal divisible pool from mis-spending provinces to a mis-spending centre will not address Pakistan’s fiscal woes." Demonising the NFC Award dawn.com/news/1959513