In a recent report titled, “Energy Subsidy Reform – Lessons and Implications”, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has criticized exorbitant subsidies governments use to artificially keep the price of fossil fuels low. These subsidies amount to a whopping $1.9 trillion or around 2.5% of global GDP. Removing these subsidies would result in a reduction of [...]
Gay marriage has been the topic of the year, with debates escalating in many parts of the western world. If you don’t support it, you’re a bigot and if you do, you’re a ‘liberal fascist,’ imposing views on people and religions. However, until society alters the basic science being taught across the world, we can [...]
Pakistan has a horrible history of disenfranchising its own people. Protests in Dhaka’s Shahbag Square brought back haunting memories of the atrocities that the Pakistan army and its collaborators committed in the country’s former eastern wing—atrocities that were committed just to deny East Pakistanis adequate political representation. This is a harrowing thought that makes one [...]
In over 200 universities throughout North America including Brown, MIT, and McGill, to name a few, activist groups are gaining momentum in their efforts to pressure their institutions into withdrawing investments from notoriously unethical fossil fuel companies. These student-led groups are at the vanguard of an emerging global movement calling for all educational, religious and [...]
Obama and his administration’s visit to the Middle East in March 2013 was partly to resume the Palestine-Israel peace process, especially when we look at the press conference Obama and Abbas held together in Ramallah, Gaza on March 21. Obama assured that his new Secretary of State John Kerry would be dedicated to the peace [...]
In light of the events that have occurred this year alone, the attack on the Quetta Hazaras, the Abbas Town Bombing in Karachi and the burning of Christian homes in Joseph Colony, Lahore, it has become abundantly clear that there is only one cure for Pakistan’s sectarian mess. The country is in desperate need of [...]
