By Usman Hayat Published in DAWN on December 23, 2021 Twenty years ago, Ayesha secured a job as a management trainee in the finance department of a company after completing her MBA. A lot has happened in Ayesha’s life since then: she got married, had children, was promoted, lost her parents, survived Covid-19 and much more. But […]
By Memoona Qazi Published in DAWN on December 23, 2021 The recent rise in Lahore’s smog levels were anything but unprecedented; the city is perhaps the most polluted in the world as it ranks above 100 on the Air Quality Index. With the onset of the winter season, the city gets engulfed in pollution and smoke as[…]
GIDS Working Paper No. 06-21 Fareeha Zafar Professor Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Anum Sami MPhil Student Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Abstract While the exclusion of women from the political arena results from several structural, functional and individual factors that vary in different social contexts across countries, the common[…]