Author: Team IBC English (Team IBC English)

I begin with a simple but uncomfortable truth: poverty has never been eradicated. Not by revolutions, not by religions, and not by economic systems. It has survived monarchies and republics, capitalism and socialism, colonialism and independence. It has changed its appearance and its victims, but it has remained present. This persistence itself proves that poverty...

Rawalpindi has always been a city of literature, thought, and living dialogue. Its streets and neighborhoods have long borne witness to gatherings where words were not merely spoken but deeply felt, and ideas did not remain abstract thoughts but shaped attitudes and ways of life. Within this tradition, one gentle yet firm voice is that...

Reproducing Dr Rakhshinda Perveen’s think piece originally Published in Daily Times, December 4th 2017. “Thousands of families of ill-fated Muslims, many of them refugees from Bihar, who chose Pakistan at the time of the partition riots in 1947, were mercilessly wiped out. Women were raped, or had their breasts torn out with specially-fashioned knives. Children...

In the grand theater of international relations, the curtain is falling on the Atlantic era. For decades, the geopolitical identity of the “West” was predicated on a singular, unshakable axis: the convergence of American military might and European diplomatic morality. It was a partnership assumed to be eternal, codified in the G7 and enshrined in...

On an early March afternoon near the tail of a distributary in Lower Chenab, the rotation chart on the patwari’s wall still shows that water is due. The wheat crop requires its final irrigation before harvest. On the ground, there is only a thin brown trickle that dies in the channel before reaching the final...

Liberty without any framework of order always moves toward anarchy. History teaches that every society, when given complete freedom without any boundaries, sooner or later collapses under its own weight. That is why every liberty must carry certain limits. No state in the world—whether it claims to be democratic, socialist, or authoritarian ever allows a...

As the world marks Genocide Prevention Day on 9 December and Human Rights Day on 10 December, we are reminded that remembrance must lead to responsibility, and responsibility must lead to justice for every community, without exception. Dr. Rakhshinda Perveen shares her reflections for IBC. Preamble: These are some of my reflections on a subject...

In the public eye, politics often appears as a game — of power, privilege, and corruption. Yet behind that glitter lies a dark web of pressure, fear, and compulsion that entraps nearly every politician. The truth is that those who seem powerful are often the most helpless. In our political system, the politician stands like...