A Voice of the Unheard Wednesday, October 7, 2026
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf first said it would march on Islamabad on September 27. A day or two before, it moved the date to October 4. On October 4 the march did begin, at Gandi Chowk in Lakki Marwat, and the party itself described it as starting “in instalments”. Since then the convoy has been travelling...
At the end of the month, a Pakistani father works out whether the school fee can be paid in full. The electricity bill arrives and the budget breaks. Petrol goes up and the motorcycle becomes a calculation. Flour gets expensive and the dinner table shrinks. From the same pockets, billions of rupees in tax money...
The Abraham Accords were sold as the price Israel would pay to stop annexing the West Bank. Five years on, the annexation is being openly mapped and the Gulf’s answer is a warning. The lesson is not that recognition was offered, but that it was offered without terms anyone could enforce. In September 2020 the...
On the morning of 26 August, fifteen newborn babies were in the nursery of the Mother and Child Health ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad. Fourteen of them did not leave it alive. The federal health minister said the fire began with a blast in the ward’s air conditioner. One infant...