tragic death of the South American immigrant, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez who drowned in the Rio Grande River with his 2 year old daughter while trying to cross the US-Mexico border. The young father left El Salvador, a desperately poor country, to seek a better life for himself and his family. Unable to enter the US by land, due to the country’s hostile anti-immigrant border policy, he tried to swim…

Most people have a clear idea of what a desert is - a vast barren of land with little water and life. However, modern cities have their own man-made version of a humanitarian crisis in the form of Food Deserts.

In capitalism, unrestricted privatization is prescribed as the cure for both poverty and lack of development. It is precisely this position that was adopted on 10 June 2019 by the Advisor to the Prime Minister for Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, where he stated that it is a government priority, “To fix institutions,” adding that “Our institutions- power, gas, steel, PIA, railways and insurance etc., have…

The carrying of the call is a trust carried by Muslims over the years; it is the duty of the Muslims today to carry it until the return of Islam to its former state of pride and strength of existence, and how are we in need for this today, Allah (swt) says in His noble Book: