Stories by Arif Azad

Review: In Indignity, Lea Ypi reconstructs her grandmother’s life after damaging allegations are made

She uses a combination of archival research, memory and imagination to tell the story in the wake of a picture of her grandmother surfacing online.

Published 12 Dec, 2025 11:57am

AMR data

Resistance to essential antibiotics is increasing.

Published 11 Dec, 2025 07:39am

NON-FICTION: RECONSTRUCTING A LIFE

An unjust characterisation leads an Albanian academic and author to research her maternal grandmother’s life and times

Updated 07 Dec, 2025 09:37am

The AMR hazard

The authorities must strategise to tackle antimicrobial resistance.

Published 08 Oct, 2024 08:36am

AMR crisis

Antimicrobial resistance caused at least 1.27m deaths globally in 2019.

Published 27 Jul, 2024 06:07am

Plugging the gap

In Pakistan, health inequalities are visible to the naked eye.

Published 30 May, 2024 08:34am

Living longer

A longer stay at school can add years to life.

Updated 06 Feb, 2024 11:48am

Health security

Building a resilient public health system is of vital importance.

Updated 09 Jan, 2024 09:37am

Rooted in evidence

A fresh approach to policymaking is necessary.

Published 01 Dec, 2023 07:29am

Migration crisis

Pakistan has lived in denial in the matter of refugees.

Published 11 Oct, 2023 06:56am

Healthy opportunity

Next week’s UN meetings are a chance to revisit health targets.

Published 14 Sep, 2023 05:45am

Just imagine it

Despite promises of change, things remain the same.

Updated 19 May, 2023 08:53am

Pandemic accord

The zero draft focuses on equity as its guiding principle.

Published 13 Apr, 2023 08:51am

Spending cuts

Studies show the link between IMF programmes and health financing.

Published 11 Mar, 2023 06:40am

NON-FICTION: FLAME OF THE SELF

Andrea Wulf traces the birth of Romanticism to a small town in Germany and explains complex ideas in simple and seductive prose

Published 19 Feb, 2023 08:36am

Urban healthcare

Public health must be at the heart of planning.

Published 15 Feb, 2023 07:03am

An airport death

There are many Mehrans rotting in the bylanes of asylum systems.

Published 05 Dec, 2022 07:46am

Limited waiver

The deal waives only a part of TRIPs-related protection...

Published 13 Nov, 2022 07:03am

Right to seek safety

Refugees should be welcome wherever they come from...

Published 20 Jun, 2022 07:26am

FICTION: SPIRITS OF DAYS PAST

Medical doctor and writer Arshad Waheed has been on the literary map for some decades now. His first Urdu novel —...

Published 17 Apr, 2022 10:54am