Structurally restrained, socially vibrant yet politically invisible, emotionally drained and culturally undervalued – this defines Pakistan’s youth today. Youth in Pakistan are glorified as tomorrow’s leaders but denied a voice in today’s decisions. They fill classroom, energize streets through protests and rallies, organize cultural and community events and amplify collective voices through digital activism. However,...
Author: Team IBC English (Team IBC English)
Why we’re short on water
The contradiction, full reservoirs and yet shortages, reveals Pakistan’s real water crisis After years of drought, the 2025 monsoon brought abundance. Pakistan’s reservoirs were full. Tarbela, Mangla and Chashma were filled close to capacity at the beginning of Kharif. Yet the Indus River System Authority announced an 8% shortage for the Rabi season. The contradiction,...
A Few Impressions – Where Literature Meets Lived History
After nearly 15 years of nonfunded singular advocacy for creating empathy for the “stranded, shunned, and stigmatized” patriots whom I also call the Abandoned Pakistanis—I decided to take another intellectual risk. This time, the risk involved inviting thinkers and empaths in the twin cities into a reflective and meaningful conversation inspired by my most recent...
National Commission for Minority Rights Bill 2025
On 2 December 2025, Pakistan’s Parliament—meeting in a joint sitting of the National Assembly and the Senate—approved the National Commission for Minority Rights Bill 2025. The bill, introduced by Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar, seeks to establish a permanent national body dedicated to safeguarding the rights of non-Muslim citizens. The legislation secured 160 votes in...
Pakistan Movement: A Critical Reassessment
The story of Pakistan’s creation is often narrated as a straightforward struggle of a united Muslim community under a visionary leadership. Yet when we examine the historical landscape more critically, the movement appears far more complex, shaped less by internal political preparations and more by the shifting global realities that weakened the British Empire. A...
Our Moral Crisis and the Way We Treat Each Other
We live in a time where information travels faster than ever. With one click, we can see news, opinions, and videos from all over the world. But even with this progress, our moral values seem to be getting weaker. We make quick judgments, react without thinking, and speak without understanding. This is the real moral...
Iran halts power generation at key dam over drought
The depleted Amirkabir dam in Tehran, Iran, on November 11. TEHRAN: Iranian authorities on Saturday halted electricity production at one of the country’s biggest dams due to a marked drop in the reservoir’s water level, state media reported. “Due to the drop in the Karkheh Dam reservoir level, its power plant’s units were removed from...
Lawyer, two others shot dead in Jhang
TOBA TEK SINGH: Former Jhang District Bar Association president Mehr Muhammad Munir Sadhana, his driver and a passer-by were killed while a shopkeeper was injured when two unidentified persons riding a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire on the lawyer’s car on Gojra Road of Jhang on Saturday morning. Jhang Satellite Town police said the attackers managed...
Hong Kong mourns victims of blaze that killed 128 and counting
Hong Kong on Saturday mourned the 128 people known to have died in a massive fire at a high-rise apartment complex, a toll that is likely to rise with 200 others still unaccounted for days after the disaster. Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with the city’s worst blaze in nearly 80 years as they investigate...
Separate blasts target police checkpoint, CTD vehicle in Quetta; no loss of life reported
A damaged motorcycle lies on the ground after it was used to detonate an IED blast on Qambrani Road, Quetta on Nov 29, 2025. No loss of life was reported after two separate blasts targeted a police checkpoint and a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) vehicle on Quetta’s Qambrani Road. Police said the first blast occurred near...