ZARA

  The deadly coronavirus disease, which is now officially called COVID-19, actually escaped from the seafood market in Wuhan, China, and is also the hub for China’s booming car parts and accessories exports. It is a real human tragedy as thousands got infected and hundreds lost their precious lives in multiple states after China, while numerous cities are facing lockdown as a result of the dangerous coronavirus outbreak across the world. The virus has been traced day by day since its beginning, and it is spreading so quickly that people’s lives are under threat, cases are skyrocketing, and it has not just remained limited to public health anymore, but it is hurting China’s economy as well as the world economy. The situation got more deteriorated when the Chinese Communist Party found itself more concerned with covering up the story th a n preventing the actual virus.   If we go back a little in history, we come to know that back in 2002, or 18 years ago, China went through the...

Some days back I went to the northern side of Pakistan, which is well thought out as the most scenic side of the country, having all the loveliness, tranquillity, and a serene environment that is at its best to provide peace to the one's state of mind. The rest house where I stayed, the management staff had always stood by to make sure we were comfortable in spite of their own unpleasant conditions. The discriminatory system of capitalism has almost crumbled the societies. There, among caretakers, I found a poor, white-haired old man—bearded, frail, and fragile. He enquired about my profession, and after getting to know, he requested I put his appalling story of village life into a lifelong book, where a single life lives and dies every day. He was living there far away from his family in order to make a living. Upon asking, I was told he was from that backward area where the necessities of life were never imagined, where there was no surety of the next meal, and people’s lives we...