Author: Parul Sabherwal

When the cameras finally turned on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Islamabad didn’t answer the questions; it switched off the questioner. A week on, the cover-up has only grown bigger, and it confirms everything India has said about Pakistan’s “Azad” Kashmir for decades. It has become a familiar reflex for Pakistan’s establishment: when the truth becomes inconvenient, kill the messenger. This time, the messenger was Al Jazeera, and the story it wouldn’t stop telling was the one unfolding in PoK. On the morning of August 3, 2026, users across Pakistan found Al Jazeera’s English website simply refusing to load. There was no…

Every evening, India’s cities perform a small miracle. Groceries arrive before the tea is brewed. Dinner appears at the doorstep within minutes. A cab materialises almost as soon as it is booked. Behind every one of those deliveries is a person on a two-wheeler, threading through traffic, navigating potholes, racing against a countdown timer set by an algorithm he has never seen and cannot question. For the consumer, it is convenient. For the worker, it is something else entirely. India had nearly 7.7 million gig and platform workers in 2020-21. By 2029-30, that number is projected to cross 23.5 million,…