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Articles for author: Sana Mustafa

June 1, 2022

Sana Mustafa

State authorities begin arrests following Karachi University bombing (Opinion)

Following last month’s explosion outside prestigious Karachi University’s Confucius Institute in the country’s economic hub by Shari Baloch, Pakistan’s first female suicide bomber, which led to the killings of three Chinese and a driver as they were heading towards the varsity, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Makran chapter on a tip off by the intelligence agency about a suspected woman namely Noor Jaan Baloch raided a house in Hoshap area of Balochistan province and detained the woman. The arrest comes around month after Shari Baloch, Pakistan’s first female suicide bomber detonated herself outside the prestigious Karachi University’s Confucius Institute in the

May 26, 2022

Sana Mustafa

Crude sexism hogging national airwaves (Opinion)

“Listen Maryam, be careful, your husband might get upset because you have been constantly repeating my name,” these were the remarks of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said while addressing a mammoth rally in Multan early this week. “Someone sent me a speech on social media in which PML-N vice president spoke my name yesterday so many times and with such passion and obsession that I would ask Maryam to be careful as her husband might get angry with her for speaking my name,” he said in a very normal way. After a brief pause,

May 25, 2022

Sana Mustafa

Political polarisation mars Pakistani media (Opinion)

Following the ouster of prime minister Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion tabled by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) – an alliance of opposition parties including Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) – the Pakistani media has divided. The ongoing political chaos in the country has severely damaged the values of journalism. Due to the ongoing political crisis in the country, the country’s media houses appear to be at the forefront of the verbal bombardment of their opponents. Ex-PM and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan since his ouster, has been running an aggressive

May 19, 2022

Sana Mustafa

Political chaos, economic crisis contribute to rupee freefall against dollar (Opinion)

Amid ongoing political wrangling in the country, the Pakistani rupee continues to plunge raising fears of a worsening economic crisis. Experts say if timely steps are not taken in this regard, foreign exchange reserves could plummet to a dangerous level and there are risks of the country going bankrupt. This week the rupee touched an all-time low of 199, inching closer to the 200-mark. In the interbank and open markets, the rupee has been hitting the all-time low versus the dollar every other day. The dollar climbed roughly Rs 5 in the interbank market and Rs 6 in the local

May 14, 2022

Sana Mustafa

Whither food security?

The timely provision of nutritious and robust food is a basic right of every human being, according to the international human manifesto. Food insecurity has become the most serious problem in Pakistan. Food security refers to the availability of food as well as its ability to obtain it. A home is considered safe if no one in the household is hungry or at risk of starvation. When everyone has access to good, safe and nutritious food at all times to lead a healthy and active life. Food insecurity happens when a person is unable to obtain enough healthy food on

May 12, 2022

Sana Mustafa

Baloch continue to be denied rights (Opinion)

Hundreds and thousands of people have lost their lives due to the insurgency that has been going on in Balochistan for the past many years. The unabating wave of insurgency in the province has made people angry with the federal government and security forces. The anger among the people of the province against the federal government and security forces reached its peak for the government and security forces failing to protect them and depriving them of their rights and the Baloch nationalists have been taking advantage of this to lure young Balochis towards insurgency. Although the people of Balochistan have

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