The Friday Times

From systemic oppression to agency: A review of Moloo Musalli. Shifting the narrative from charity to dignity and indigenous development. 🌍✊ By Junaid Jahangir Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/am… #SocialJustice #BookReview #HumanDignity #Empowerment #Islamic #SocialEquity

Exploring decolonized economics through Amjad Saqib’s "Moloo Musalli." A powerful call for human dignity, systemic change, and resistance. 📚✨ By Junaid Jahangir Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/am… #DecolonizeEconomics #SocialJustice #BookReview #GlobalSouth #HumanDignity

With diplomatic efforts intensifying over Eid, Pakistan’s strategic mediation offers a crucial blueprint for stability and regional peace. By Rina Saeed Khan @rinasaeed Read: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/ca… #IranUSCeasefire #MiddleEastPeace #Diplomacy #GlobalEconomy #RegionalStability

Humanitarian workers from the Sumud Flotilla speak out upon release, exposing severe human rights violations and a breakdown of international law. By Akram Saqib Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/gr… #SumudFlotilla #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianAid #FreedomFlotilla

A woman's past is often weaponized as character evidence, while a powerful man's history is just complicated. We must end this double standard. By Kiva Malick Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/pa… #DoubleStandards #PowerDynamics #GenderEquality #CulturalChange #SocialJustice

From moth-eaten Pakistan to nuclear deterrence—the story of a state that refused to disappear and an empire that refused to accept its limits. By Ambassador M. Alam Brohi Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/ba… #IndiaPakistanRivalry #GreaterIndia #Kashmir #NuclearDeterrence #Nehru

Decades of 'poverty reduction' relied on migrant workers' remittances, not domestic growth. Inflation has exposed the fragility beneath the numbers. By Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/po… #PakistanPoverty #RemittanceTrap #EconomicFragility #FoodSecurity

Four provinces, four models, one April of failure. Pakistan's wheat system withdrew before reform arrived, and every consumer paid the price. By Mohsin Leghari @LeghariMohsin Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/20… #WheatCrisis #FoodSecurity #Punjab #Farmers #NationalFood

Spoilers are already sabotaging what hasn't been signed. The US-Iran MoU lives or dies in Islamabad's next round of talks. By Ishtiaq Ahmad @ahmadishtiaq Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/fr… #USIran #IslamabadTalks #PakistanMediates #StraitofHormuz #Ceasefire #Disaster

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. Pakistan's courts still function, but the soul of justice has quietly departed the courtroom. By Abuzar Salman Khan Niazi Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/pa… #JudicialCrisis #ConstitutionalCrisis #JusticeDelayed #RuleOfLaw

Iran won't surrender its missiles; America won't drop its demands. The ceasefire holds, but the real negotiation is over who controls tomorrow's Gulf. By Dr Moonis Ahmar @moonisahmar Read: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/br… #USIran #StraitOfHormuz #Nuclear #PakistanMediates #GulfSecurity

The Soviet dream died, but its wounded still love, mourn, and refuse silence. Alexievich rescues the human soul from the silence of history. By Zaffar Junejo @ZaffarJunejo Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/jo… #SvetlanaAlexievich #NobelLiterature #Utopia #Empire #HumanTestimony

As Pakistan-mediated peace talks between Iran and the US reach a critical juncture in Tehran, the region holds its breath for a lasting truce. By Rina Saeed Khan @rinasaeed Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/ca… #IranUSCeasefire #MiddleEastPeace #DiplomacyFirst #GlobalEconomy

Released Global Sumud Flotilla activists arrive in Türkiye, detailing severe abuse and systemic lawlessness faced during their maritime detention. By Akram Saqib Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/gr… #SumudFlotilla #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianAid #FreedomFlotilla

Financial support in a relationship is not a debt that survives it. It is time to challenge the structural asymmetry of power and privilege. By Kiva Malick Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/pa… #DoubleStandards #PowerDynamics #GenderEquality #CulturalChange #SocialJustice

Nehru dreamed of Greater India; Pakistan was the obstacle. Eighty years on, that rivalry shapes every border, every treaty, every flashpoint. By Ambassador M. Alam Brohi Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/ba… #IndiaPakistanRivalry #GreaterIndia #Kashmir #NuclearDeterrence #Nehru

Pakistan reduced poverty on paper through remittances, not productivity. Now that the model is breaking, fragility—not statistics—defines millions. By Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/po… #PakistanPoverty #RemittanceTrap #EconomicFragility #FoodSecurity

Wheat is provincial in production; food security is national. Punjab's procurement failure didn't stay in Punjab—it fed a crisis across four provinces. By Mohsin Leghari @LeghariMohsin Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/20… #WheatCrisis #FoodSecurity #Punjab #Farmers #NationalFood

A one-page framework, weeks of backchannel work—Pakistan brought enemies to the table. Now Washington and Tehran must bring good faith. By Ishtiaq Ahmad @ahmadishtiaq Read: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/fr… #USIran #IslamabadTalks #PakistanMediates #StraitofHormuz #Ceasefire #Disaster

When citizens celebrate merely getting a hearing date, not an acquittal, the judiciary hasn't declined—it has surrendered justice to procedure itself. By Abuzar Salman Khan Niazi Read more: thefridaytimes.com/25-May-2026/pa… #JudicialCrisis #ConstitutionalCrisis #JusticeDelayed #RuleOfLaw