Interview: Zohra Yusuf

“Win or lose, what is important is that you put up a fight” – Zohra Yusuf, Council Member, HRCP Calm and soft-spoken with a will of steel, Zohra Yusuf’s diminutive frame belies a towering soul that has covered immense ground as a journalist, an advertising guru and a human rights defender. In the early 1980s, …

Interview: Justice (retd) Majida Razvi

Interview: Justice (retd) Majida Razvi, the first woman judge to the Sindh High Court Bench in 1994 broke the glass ceiling that had been firmly held by men for 47 years. But that distinction constitutes only a fraction of Razvi’s achievements. Along with her distinguished career as a judge and earlier as an advocate, she has been a tireless activist, writing extensively on legal rights and women’s issues. Her legal career spans over 35 years with the High Courts and later the Supreme Court.

Mushtaq Chhapra: The Game Changer

By Deneb Sumbul A successful industrialist, Mushtaq Chhapra also epitomises the spirit of social welfare. As the Panama Papers scandal reverberated around the globe, it exposed in its wake the stashed millions of hundreds of Pakistan’s leading business/political figures and of their offspring in an offshore tax haven. That is one end of the spectrum. …

Keeping the Flame Alight

  April 24 of 2016 will bring us to Sabeen Mehmood’s first death anniversary. The brutal murder of the creator/director of T2F – a prominent personality at many forums – left a loss felt deeply by civil society. Uncertainty prevailed after her passing and there was talk of having to close down T2F – one …