Dawn Editorials and Opinions 19 June 2021

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to form a committee to review the

NA peace — for now - Newspaper - passage of 21 bills which the opposition
DAWN.COM said were passed ‘in haste’. Both sides
Editorial 19 June 2021 agreed that no individual would be
targeted or insulted during the budget
AFTER a session of utter pandemonium speech, and that parliamentary party
and a distasteful war of words, normalcy leaders would ensure that their MNAs
finally returned to the National respected parliamentary norms in the
Assembly on Thursday. There was no Assembly. The change of tone of the
shouting or rowdy behaviour as Leader ruling party lawmakers is indeed
of the Opposition in the National remarkable, for just days earlier, they
Assembly Shehbaz Sharif made his were bullish about denying the
budget speech, challenging the opposition the floor and adamant to
government on its key financial teach it a lesson for preventing the prime
commitments. Mr Sharif spoke for minister from speaking during previous
nearly two hours, with treasury bench sessions..
members silently listening to his
How did this U-turn come about? Was
criticism. At one point, the speaker
public criticism of the shamefully
directed Murad Saeed, one of the PTI’s
aggressive behaviour during
chief agitators in the Assembly, to take a
Wednesday’s session really what pushed
seat in order to let Mr Sharif finish his
both warring sides to the negotiating
speech. It is miraculous how, just days
table? Though this explanation would be
after the ruling party and the opposition
welcome, it appears unlikely, as ruling
were at each other’s throats and would
party MNAs and ministers were
not stop at anything to tear the other
uncompromising in the aftermath of that
down, the two have agreed to a
mayhem. Who ‘empowered’ Speaker
‘peaceful coexistence’. This
Asad Qaiser to engage both sides and
announcement was made by the
broker a truce, when for months he had
government following a meeting
watched helplessly as madness
between the PTI and opposition MNAs
descended on each session? What was it
at Parliament House, in which the latter
that finally brought about maturity and
agreed to withdraw the no-confidence
agreement between the two sides? Could
motion against the deputy speaker,
it be the intervention of a third party?.
Qasim Suri, and the government agreed
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Though this new vow of civility is members of a gang in the eastern state of
welcome, it remains to be seen how long Jharkhand who were trying to sell
it will last. The toxic relationship several kilos of uranium — a key
between the two sides is not lost on ingredient of nuclear weapons — while
anyone. The government leaves no stone a similar incident occurred recently in
unturned when it comes to calling Nagpur, Maharashtra. Pakistan’s
opposition members names and heaping Foreign Office has rightly highlighted
all shades of allegations on them. The this important issue, calling for a
opposition parties, too, try to outdo the “thorough investigation into such
ruling party by resorting to the incidents” while adding that the reports
same. The sad reality is that in both “point to lax controls ... as well as
cases it is democracy that loses. A possible existence of a black market for
dysfunctional parliament, where nuclear materials”. Considering the
political civility is entirely absent, only nature of these reports, the international
amplifies political cynicism and community must not remain silent and
delegitimises the political process. Our demand answers from the Indian
elected representatives should not need government. An EU spokesman when
reminders about engaging in behaviour questioned about the possible
that casts democracy in an unfavourable proliferation activities said that the bloc
light.. “is aware of the information and
understands that the Indian authorities
Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2021. are investigating”..
India uranium theft - Newspaper - The fact is that reports of possible

DAWN.COM proliferation must be taken very
Editorial 19 June 2021 seriously. For example, the use of
nuclear material by non-state actors in a
REPORTS emerging from India about ‘dirty bomb’ has been raised by the
the theft of uranium and possible sale on international community as a threat to
the black market should be a cause for global security. Moreover, certain states
concern for the international have pointed fingers at this country for
community. According to reports in the supposed lax security protocols when
Indian media, police had arrested former IAEA chief Yukia Amano had
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said that Pakistan “is an experienced KCR rigmarole - Newspaper -

user of peaceful nuclear technology” DAWN.COM
during a visit to Karachi in 2018. Also, Editorial 19 June 2021
Western states have questioned Iran’s
nuclear activities, whereas the Islamic THURSDAY’S proceedings in the
Republic insists it is not pursuing atomic Supreme Court clearly demonstrated
weapons. The point is that there should how divided the stakeholders are when it
be one standard where nuclear safety is comes to giving Karachi a mass transit
concerned. If the Indian state itself has system worthy of a city of 20m. The
arrested individuals involved in possible Supreme Court’s order was realistic and
proliferation, then the international modest. All it did was to ask the Sindh
community, through the IAEA, must government to finalise within a month
demand a thorough and transparent such basic issues as the completion of
probe to ensure sensitive atomic PC-1, the signing of contracts and the
material does not fall into the wrong issuance of work order so that
hands. The Indian government must construction could begin on underpasses
speed up the pace of investigations and and flyovers for the Karachi Circular
make the findings public, otherwise Railway. After a court order as far back
fears of a nuclear black market will only as early last year, the Sindh government
grow. Pakistan has every right to be had said it had given a contract to the
concerned that nuclear material does not Frontier Works Organisation to pursue
fall into the hands of non-state actors the project. However, on Thursday the
working against this country. If the FWO counsel informed the court that no
international community continues to PC-1 had been finalised and that it had
maintain its silence on these alarming received no funds from the provincial
reports, it will give credence to the government. The response of the Sindh
belief that those who control the global advocate general was that the FWO
order choose to cherry-pick issues of wanted some changes in the plan and
concern. Where nuclear safety is believed some sections of the KCR route
concerned, this position is simply not needed to be elevated. A greater surprise
tenable.. was in store when the FWO’s 494 group
commander said that his organisation
Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2021.
had consulted experts and come to the
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conclusion that it was not feasible to the human body is to become a dark
build underpasses and bridges in some mystery, darker than ever
areas and that it would be better if the before. Religious scholars appointed as
KCR tracks were elevated on those members of the SNC Committee are
sections.. supervising the content of schoolbooks
in all subjects including science. In the
Frankly, the court’s concern name of Islamic morality they have
notwithstanding, let us forget the KCR warned textbook publishers not to print
dream. After decades of discussions all any diagram or sketch in biology
we have is the bare truth made available textbooks that show human figures
before their lordships. The Japanese had “sans clothes”. .
offered all technical and financial help,
and there were moments when the For the teaching of biology this
CPEC, too, appeared to be in the picture, surpasses existing de facto prohibitions
but all we have now is a lack of on teaching evolution, the foundational
consensus on the fundamentals among principle of biological
the parties concerned. The truth is the sciences. Illustrations are crucial to
KCR project isn’t backed by political explain the digestive system (with both
will. In Lahore, we saw what political entrance and exit points) and human
will can achieve by overcoming all reproduction, as well as the mammary
hurdles. The KCR, too, can become a gland. Diagrams, sketches and human
reality if someone had the will to make skeletal forms cannot be
the dream come true. There is none.. draped. Excluding these from
schoolbooks reduces the teaching of
Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2021. biology to a farce. .
Cost of enforced modesty - Inhibitions about the human body, of

Newspaper - DAWN.COM course, have been around for much
By Pervez Hoodbhoy longer than SNC. It’s just that
henceforth there will be still more. I
IMPLEMENTATION of the PTI’s have looked at a few biology textbooks
Single National Curriculum has started published in past years by the Punjab
in Islamabad’s schools and for students and Sindh Textbook Boards and could
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not find meaningful accounts of By inviting mullahs to

mammalian organs and processes regulate biology textbooks
needed to sustain life on earth.. the PTI government has put
Pakistan in reverse gear..
In one book from 1996 I did find a
diagrammatised rabbit. But with While sharm-o-haya applies to all,
essential parts fuzzed out, it is difficult females bear the brunt. Culturally,
to figure out whether it was male or ‘breast’ is a taboo word and so breast
female or the equipment that rabbits cancer cannot easily be called ‘breast
need to reproduce themselves. That cancer’. This makes early detection
someone should think an un-fuzzed hugely difficult and accounts for
diagram of this little animal would Pakistan’s rate of breast cancer being the
titillate students or stimulate highest in South Asia. Most women feel
promiscuous behaviour stumps me. . embarrassed in coming forward; only
when the pain becomes unbearable and
When enforced, clerical interpretations when the cancer metastasizes does a
of modesty — translated as sharm-o- woman finally confide in someone. By
haya — cause people to suffer that time it is too late. Ovaries?
grievously. For example, ex-senator Thousands of Pakistani women die
Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, former yearly of ovarian and cervical cancer but
provincial secretary of the MMA, ‘ovaries’ and ‘cervix’ are words too
roundly condemned diagnostic devices delicate to ever mention..
that can look inside women’s bodies
because, “We think that men could With such deep social inhibitions,
derive sexual pleasure from women’s should women become doctors? This
bodies while conducting ECG or appears an odd question. Presently,
ultrasound”. Claiming that women about 70 per cent of medical students in
would lure men under the pretext of Pakistan are female. Our brightest girls
medical procedures, the maulana’s party get sent to medical college by their
banned ECG and ultrasound for women parents but mostly to become trophy
by male technicians and doctors when in brides who never practise their
power in KP. Trained females, however, profession. Nevertheless, this begs the
were not to be found. . question: can females become real
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doctors with their restricted medical wraps. Presumably, the morals of

knowledge? Would they ever be Pakistani society will be wrecked if we
permitted to study the whole body, discover how babies are
including the male anatomy? Or are made. Somehow it’s okay to breed like
women doctors only to treat sore throats rabbits but not okay to know how
or become midwives?. rabbits breed..
Over time the clerically supervised PTI Denying basic anatomical knowledge
school curriculum will magnify body- keeps minds clean, say our clerics. This
related taboos. Even today no one in could not be more false. Unsated
government dares talk openly about curiosity and sexual repression drove
population planning or contraceptives internet pornographic traffic from
except with bated breath and only after Pakistan so high that PTA finally
looking over their shoulder. Although blocked porn sites. Until November
Pakistan produces as many people as the 2011 internet cafes were principal porn
state of Israel every two years, yet it dispensers and these promptly collapsed
abolished the ministry for population after the ban, ruining their owners. One
planning long ago. It was replaced with hears, however, that paths to proscribed
some obscure, non-functioning materials have simply shifted
organisation in each province.. elsewhere. Who knows?.
Called the Population Welfare Sharm-o-haya makes protecting children

Department, the replacement was named from sexual predators much more
to suit our ‘cultural sensitivities’. The difficult. Sometime ago, the PTI
name implicitly suggests welfare for minister for human rights, Dr Shireen
Pakistanis is possible irrespective of Mazari, declared at the launch of the
how many of us there are. PWD Child Protection Campaign that
websites have fancy graphics but no ‘Pakistan was ranked as the country with
content because ways to limit the largest numbers of child
conception would violate sharm-o- pornography viewers’. She suggested
haya. How the human species that campaigns should be launched at
propagates appears to be a dark national the school level to sensitise students to
secret that must be kept under the menace. .
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Mazari is, of course, very correct. Her moving backward as fast as

proposal would work far better at possible. The kind of mixed-up,
protecting children than having child confused and ignorant generations PTI’s
killers and rapists swing from lamp curriculum changes will produce in
posts, a popular demand. But such times ahead is absolutely terrifying. .
educational campaigns require making
children aware of basic biological facts The writer is an Islamabad-based
so that they can tell between proper and physicist and author..
improper behaviour. How can that
possibly square with Imran Khan’s and
Shafqat Mehmood’s clerically
ECP roars back - Newspaper -
supervised SNC? .
DAWN.COM
The guardians of sharm-o-haya find By Fahad Hussain
undraped diagrams shameful. Yet, to
protect their own kind, they suppress WHEN sanity returns, it does so with
every scandal that might implicate whispering feet..
them. Earlier this week, unchallengeable
video evidence emerged of a mufti’s The electoral reforms bill bulldozed
sexual wrongdoing with a madressah through the National Assembly by the
lad. While he was stripped of his government is a dangerous legislation
madressah teaching post after that bodes ill for our democratic system
investigation, no cleric suggested Sharia of checks and balances. The bill dilutes
punishment and all religious parties the power of the Election Commission
stayed mum.. of Pakistan (ECP) while ordering the
implementation of half-baked measures
Saudi Arabia and the GCC countries like the Electronic Voting Machines
used to be the world’s most stoutly (EVMs) and the right of vote to overseas
conservative countries while Pakistan Pakistanis. It is also scarred with
was counted among the more open, reckless amendments like basing
relaxed ones. This has delimitation of constituencies on the
changed. Presently, Pakistan is not just number of registered voters instead of
in reverse gear, it is hell-bent upon the population as is the standard. .
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In other words, the bill is a shocking Sikandar Sultan Raja in which he wrote:
manifestation of the PTI government’s “The Election Commission of Pakistan
unilateral push to have its way has itself expressed serious concerns
regardless of the consequences for the regarding the recent election bill
system as a whole. But now, finally, it bulldozed through the National
appears that the government may stand Assembly in an objectionable
chastened.. manner. Any election-related legislation
must be based on broad-based consensus
Or almost.. … It is thus responsibility of ECP to
hold an inclusive dialogue with all
Much has happened since Dawn
political parties … I urge you to invite
published a detailed story on the ECP’s
all opposition parties for consultation to
objections and reservations on the
achieve a consensus-based reform plan,
electoral reforms bill. The story brought
which can then be presented before the
into public view the gravity of the
parliament for passage, to ensure that
ECP’s concerns and the consequences
future elections are fair, transparent and
— including constitutional ones — of
reflect the genuine will of the
barrelling ahead with the bill and
electorate.”.
making it into law. Since its publication,
there has been a flurry of activity in The bill is a shocking
Islamabad with both the government and manifestation of the PTI
the opposition reaching out to the ECP government’s unilateral
for greater consultation. A delegation of push to have its way..
the ECP has also briefed President Arif
Alvi on the commission’s reservations In a latest compilation of its reservations
and the president, according to a press on the bill, the ECP has quantified its
release, has emphasised that ECP should response to the amendments and the
have a major say in what is included in numbers tell their own story. The total
the bill.. number of amendments in the Election
Act 2017 are 72. Of these 72, the new
On Friday, leader of the opposition in ECP document breaks down its response
the National Assembly and PML-N as follows:.
president Shehbaz Sharif fired off a
letter to Chief Election Commissioner
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1. Amendments not supported by the should give the government’s drafters of

ECP for being inconsistent with this controversial bill some serious food
the Constitution/Powers of ECP for thought. This is not how you make
— (15) laws that are meant to improve on the
electoral system. We need to be looking
. not just at the 2023 elections but the
many ones after that. Who was it high
2. Amendments not supported by the
up in this government who recently
ECP for being inconsistent with
bemoaned the lack of long-term
the Elections Act 2017 — (5)
planning?.
.
The president has set a constructive tone
3. Amendments not supported by the with the ECP. The leader of the
ECP on administrative and opposition has made a sensible
general grounds — (17) demand. The ECP has done its
homework. The bill that has been
. bulldozed through the National
Assembly should not be forced through
4. Amendments supported by the the Senate in its present form. People
ECP but with some further involved in the negotiations — belated
amendments — (8) as they are — over the fate of the bill
now say the bill will be debated afresh
.
in the Senate standing committee. It is
5. Amendments supported with no here that the opposition will get a
objections — (27) chance to propose further amendments
and have the controversial — and
. unconstitutional — clauses
removed. According to these sources,
The numbers tell a grim story the Senate committee is also expected to
indeed. Out of the 72 amendments invite officials from the ECP to the
drafted by the government, the ECP meeting and these officials will then
does not support, fully or partially, 45 of present the detailed analysis of the flaws
these amendments. The equation 45/72 in the bill that have already been
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reported by Dawn. The government has diluted. If anything, we need the ECP to
shown some flexibility on the be more strong, more empowered and
matter. We may see some constructive more willing to flex its muscles to
headway in the coming days.. ensure that the will of the people is
reflected accurately through the ballot
But don’t get your hopes too high. The box..
PTI government’s obsession with EVMs
and overseas Pakistanis enfranchisement Sanity is good. Perhaps though it is time
may yet play the spoiler in this endless to stop whispering it, and start shouting
drama. The ECP’s analysis and opinion from the rooftops. .
does not reject these two amendments in
totality but says certain steps have to be The writer is Dawn’s resident editor in
taken before these amendments can Islamabad.
become feasible. These steps will Twitter: @fahdhusain.
require debate, and patience and
accommodation and, yes, some give and
take. Knowing PTI, none of this would
Meeting at the top - Newspaper -
be easily digestible. So the chances of a
DAWN.COM
solution emerging from this controversy
versus the whole thing going up in By AG Noorani
flames is, well, fifty-fifty. .
SUMMITS, as meetings between heads
These odds don’t work too well when of state and government are called, are
the future of free and fair elections are at as old as mankind itself. The recent
stake. Such is the state of democratic summits which President Joe Biden
politics in Pakistan today that something undertook hold lessons in summitry
as basic as constructing a solid electoral which has provoked a mass of literature
game plan remains a toss-up. The ECP of uneven quality. On his visit to the
has done well to assert itself. This is the UK, he was treated to all the pageantry
commission’s moment. It must not for which the British are famous. Of his
compromise on its constitutional ‘summit’ with Prime Minister Boris
mandate, and it must not — for any Johnson, the less said the better..
reason — allow its powers to be
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The entire objective of Biden’s ... doom-laden responsibility will fall

excursion was to repair the damage upon those who now possess the power
which Donald Trump had inflicted on to decide”. After this speech the word
America’s ties with Western Europe and became part of political vocabulary..
with Nato. “I want all Europe to know
that the United States is there.” He There must be the will to
amplified “Nato is critically important to listen, to confer and to
us” and that Article 5 is a “sacred compromise..
obligation”. .
However, Churchill’s own foreign office
This provision of the North Atlantic baulked at the idea. The US secretary of
Treaty of 1949 embodies the pledge that state was cool to it. Accordingly, only a
a military attack on a member of the foreign ministers’ conference took place
alliance will be regarded as an attack on that year. The only postwar Big Four
each and all. This was not evident after Summit to meet was the Geneva
9/11. The allies rushed to declare their Conference from July 18 to 23, 1955. .
responsibility. President G.W. Bush
On the one side are those who regard
decided to go it alone while asking for
summitry as a panacea for all
the allies to contribute their troops..
international ills. On the other stand the
On June 16, Biden went to Geneva to critics who condemn it as worse than
meet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin useless, as in fact positively dangerous..
but not before he had let loose a volley
There are examples of successful
of epithets on Putin. He had referred to
summits held not after some
him as a “killer”..
improvement in relations but while the
It was Winston Churchill who first used countries were tottering on the
the word ‘summit’ in 1953 soon after brink. The Nehru-Liaquat meeting in
Stalin’s death. He proposed that “a 1950, for instance. What distinguished
conference on the highest level should them was that, although the objective
take place between the leading powers situation was bad, there was on both
without long delay”. He added that “if sides such an overwhelming desire to
there is not at the summits of the nations mend matters as to make the summit
the will to win the greatest prize worthwhile. There must be at least the
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will to listen, to confer and to mazes and jungles of technical details,

compromise. Without these, the best zealously contested by hordes of experts
prepared summit will fail.. and officials drawn up in vast, cumbrous
array. … It should meet with a measure
However, such is the complexity of of informality and a still greater measure
most modern problems that even where of privacy and seclusion”. There is little
the will to meet does exist, the summit question that where there exists some
would be futile if the diplomatic misunderstanding as to each other’s
groundwork is not done well and in intentions such talks could be
advance.. useful. President Kennedy wanted to
size up his man and warn him of the
Lack of prior preparation is the principal
dangers of miscalculation at Vienna in
ground of expert criticism of
1961..
summits. George F. Kennan has
explained the necessity for such But such is the charm of the summit that
preparation: “The multitude of ulterior these hazards are often lost sight of. The
problems that press upon a prime summit becomes an end in itself. The
minister or a head of state is so great instrument of policy becomes its
that no single subject, especially one not master..
regarded as of primary importance, is
apt to receive detailed and exhaustive The result is a complete absence of
attention. Nor can the senior statesmen policy and a corruption of
stay with a problem for any great length diplomacy. This then is the balance
of time. Their time is precious, other sheet. There are advantages and
responsibilities take them away.”. disadvantages. Whether a summit
should be held or not is a purely
There has, however, recently come into practical question which should be
being a new variant of the old summit. It answered without any
is a summit at which you just get to sentimentality. Heads of state can
know and to understand without resolve impasses better than
professedly negotiating. Winston officials. But preparation and a spirit of
Churchill himself wanted a conference compromise are a must especially if
which “should not be overhung by a problems are complex. .
ponderous or rigid agenda, or led into
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The writer is an author and a lawyer acting as a source of celebration is

based in Mumbai.. increasingly serving as the fault line of
contestation and fragmentation, reflected
Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2021. not just in social and communal
distancing but also in spatial
Honouring diversity - Newspaper - segregation..
DAWN.COM
By Farhan Anwar This growing fragmentation often
manifests itself in violence. The Afghan
THERE are few cities in the world war gave birth to the ‘Kalashnikov’
hosting such rich cultural diversity as culture. One damaging consequence of
Karachi — a diversity reflected in the our involvement in the war was that
multiplicity of languages spoken across Karachi became a hotbed of religious
cultural and ethnic divides. Karachi extremism, where radical forces with
always had been a cosmopolitan city, political agendas tried to pit
hosting at the time of Partition people communities against each other based
belonging to the Muslim, Hindu, on religious identity, the most common
Christian, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Jain, being efforts to distance the Sunni and
Jewish and other religious Shia communities. .
identities. While religious plurality
These fissures were instigated by fringe
declined after independence, Karachi
elements within the religious divides
soon started attracting people from all
and not reflective of the views of the
parts of Pakistan because of the
larger communities. However, a fear
economic opportunities it had to offer. It
scenario was created, resulting in social
assumed the title of ‘Mini-Pakistan’ — a
and spatial distancing. Religious
pulsating crucible of sociocultural,
minorities, while less a victim of actual
linguistic and ethnic pluralities. .
violence in the city, nevertheless are
In such cities, efforts are made to discriminated against in matters of
leverage demographic diversity to create access to housing, employment and
a vibrant, resilient education. Of late, a troubling element
society. Unfortunately, now for reasons adding fuel to this divisive scenario is
mostly political, this diversity, instead of that political parties are being associated
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with ethnic identities with the costs for bonding communities that were
manifesting themselves at the policy and earlier in conflict. .
institutional level such as in preferences
in public hiring and contracts, control The cultural policy, a participatory
over land, services and violence.. initiative, based within the framework of
cultural, territorial and city planning,
Few cities are as culturally created an interface of political and
diverse as Karachi.. cultural thinking. Specific objectives
included consolidating a culture of
These are troubling scenarios. However, peace, based on dialogue, andpeaceful
cities in much greater stress have resolution of social conflicts, promoting
bounced back, leveraging ‘culture’ as a access to cultural goods, services and
‘bonding’ force. One example is that of ensuring policy, financial and
Medellin City in Colombia. Medellin, institutional spaces for the creation and
not too long ago, was known as the dissemination of productions and
‘Machine Gun City’ — the base of copyright. At its core was a conscious
Pablo Escobar, head of a leading global effort to promote tolerance and facilitate
drug cartel and considered the most emerging expressions with active
violent city in the world. However, after engagement of multiple actors in urban
undergoing an urban transformation cultural development. .
based on the philosophy of ‘social
urbanism’, it is now a tourist haven. The Another successful case study is that of
conflict the city faced was largely rooted Los Angeles City, the first US city to
in the decades-old civil war fought have a non-native mayor and where 56
between government forces, far-right per cent of the population speak a
military groups and crime syndicates language other than English at
that had engulfed Colombia, pitting home. Various initiatives had been taken
communities against each other. A to use diversity as a force of bonding
major catalyst for the successful social rather than conflict. In April 2017, the
urbanism experiment was a cultural Los Angeles County Arts Commission
policy introduced by the government to (now Department of Arts and Culture)
leverage Medellin’s cultural diversity released the Cultural Equity & Inclusion
Initiative report to ensure that everyone
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in LA County had equal access to arts

and culture, improving inclusion in the
wider artistic community. The
Countywide Cultural Policy was enacted
to foster an organisational culture that
values and celebrates arts, culture and
creativity, strengthening cultural
inclusion. LA has proven to be a city
that builds resilience and vibrancy
through celebrating cultural diversity. .
We can take inspiration from such cities

that, in terms of cultural diversity and a
history of violence, probably exceed
even the Karachi experience. Policy-
based initiatives, followed by
appropriate financial, institutional and
programmatic arrangements can help
heal the growing societal fissures that
threaten this city’s peace and future
sustainability. .
The writer is an urban planner and

CEO, Urban Collaborative..
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to form a committee to review the

India uranium theft - Newspaper - The fact is that reports of possible

said that Pakistan “is an experienced KCR rigmarole - Newspaper -

Cost of enforced modesty - Inhibitions about the human body, of

not find meaningful accounts of By inviting mullahs to

doctors with their restricted medical wraps. Presumably, the morals of

Called the Population Welfare Sharm-o-haya makes protecting children

Mazari is, of course, very correct. Her moving backward as fast as

1. Amendments not supported by the should give the government’s drafters of

The entire objective of Biden’s ... doom-laden responsibility will fall

will to listen, to confer and to mazes and jungles of technical details,

The writer is an author and a lawyer acting as a source of celebration is

in LA County had equal access to arts

We can take inspiration from such cities

The writer is an urban planner and

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2021.

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