Opinion

Zhou Xiaozhu On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. That was followed by a termination of US funding pledged during the Biden administration…

Iftikhar Rashid Wani We all know that June 5 is celebrated every year as World Environment Day. This observance dates back to 1972, when the United Nations Organization designated it under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)…

Rafakat Rafiq Ahmad The Earth and its resources make life possible. Without sunlight, air, vegetation, and water, life simply cannot exist. Yet, if we continue to misuse these natural blessings, a future without them may become our grim…

Ivan Carrillo During the high-level plenary of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), held in October in Cali, Colombia, an Indigenous representative offered a powerful analogy to illustrate the…

Firdous Ahmad Malik  In a quiet village nestled between green hills and flowing streams lived a boy named Ahmad. Life had never been kind to him. He lost his father at five, and his mother—a resilient but weary woman—took up sewing and odd…

By Syed Majid Gilani Not every bond is built on love and warmth. Sometimes, it's merely a shadow of what it should have been — a connection soaked in pain, not affection. This is the story of such a bond — a loveless, silent relationship…

Iftikhar Rashid Wani Transfers are the part and parcel of one’s service. When a government employee enters the service his sole aim remains to serve the society. All the employees of all departments are trying their best to come over the…

Yamin Mohammad Munshi There exists, deep in the sedimented strata of modern despotisms, a hidden calculus — one not of numbers but of silences. It is there, in that unspoken matrix of forbidden memory and sacralized amnesia, that the tale…

Dhanapal Govindarajulu Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and even the…

Dr Toyeba Mushtaq We Are Faheem And Karun is shot entirely in the breath-taking yet complex landscape of Kashmir, the film captures not just the beauty of the region but the layered, often unheard, realities of its people. The Director,…