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A precarious thaw

THE last few years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle. This means that a large portion of the ice cap is melting, and with it...

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The American eclipse

DURING the afternoon of April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse bisected the US. Not everyone sees solar and lunar eclipses as purely scientific events...

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Diminished spending power

IT happens twice a month. Every 15 days the government decides whether or not to tighten the noose around the necks of Pakistan’s masses. Last...

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Chips in the brain

NOLAND Arbaugh, 29, was a student and athlete at the Texas A&M University when he was paralysed during a diving accident eight years ago. Arbaugh had...

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Rift over Rafah

THE Israeli genocide in Gaza has stretched into Ramazan. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited upon the Palestinians have now led to the...

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No place for medics

IT has been 13 years since the US raid on the Osama bin Laden compound. A CIA-operated fake vaccination drive was used to locate the Al Qaeda chief....

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Humanitarian women

ON March 8, 2024, the world will commemorate International Women’s Day as it does every year. This year, perhaps much more than other years, the day...

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Good examples

IN Pakistan, we do things family style, and politics is a part of family. Elections are contested family style — brothers, uncles, sons and...

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Endless wait for a plan

THERE is no doubt that the first few years of this third decade of the 21st century have been filled by unexpected calamities across the continents....

21.02.2024 200

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Crass consumerism or love?

THERE was a time when Valentine’s Day and its attendant celebration of love and sweethearts was an event when everyone who was single had to suffer....

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‘Liberal’ without gender equality

EVER SINCE Israel began its offensive in Gaza, Israeli propaganda has produced social media content that shows the female soldiers of the Israeli...

07.02.2024 200

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Abandoning the people of Gaza

FOR months now, Muslims across the world have seen the people of Gaza suffer unspeakable horrors. According to the United Nations, the condition is...

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Transforming slums

IT is the slum that earned Hollywood millions of dollars. Dharavi, the slum pictured in the 2008 blockbuster movie Slumdog Millionaire, is estimated...

24.01.2024 100

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The curse of being busy

THERE used to be a time when the ultimate symbol of a good life was being able to have plenty of time for leisure activities. One can still read about...

17.01.2024 200

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Trumpistan

JANUARY 6, 2024, fell on a Saturday, marking two years since a furious mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol and sent lawmakers...

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Is this it for humans?

IT has been estimated that 99.9 per cent of all species on our planet died out. One of the things that Charles Darwin said about human beings or Homo...

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Unprepared for pandemics

ONE of the most terrifying things about the Covid-19 pandemic was that the world was very unprepared for a global pandemic of its nature and scale....

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Decolonising the museum

IT is sad that a visit to many of the most famous museums in the world feels like a visit to the treasure trove of a global looter. When one visits...

20.12.2023 100

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Loan sharks in apps

THE figure of the loan shark has always been a grim and fear-inducing one. For centuries, the creditor showing up at your door to demand money has...

13.12.2023 100

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Women dying everywhere

THIS year, just like every year, UN Women is commemorating 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence from Nov 25 to Dec 10. This annual...

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Cities left behind

EVERY year, thousands of tourists visit the ruins of the Italian city of Pompeii. This city, which sits at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, was destroyed...

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Saving the world’s children

THIS past Monday marked World Children’s Day — a day when the international community comes together to commit to a better future for the...

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The underground arena

CONCERNS have grown further with the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) reaching the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. According to reports from those who are...

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Social media addiction

IF you are one of the many millions on Earth in possession of a social media account, then none of what you are about to read here will be at all...

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Intertwined struggles

A LOT of things about the current conflict between the state of Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine reflect past positions. Just like it...

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The anti-colonialist

THE history of South Asia and most other outposts of the British (or the Dutch or French) is replete with the struggles of the ancestors of...

25.10.2023 200

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The heat is on

IT was a hot one. In fact, climate scientists who study Earth’s temperature have found that September 2023 was perhaps the hottest September ever...

18.10.2023 100

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The real horror show

THE sequel to the movie The Exorcist was finally released in theatres in the US last week. Some 50 years after the original was released, the movie...

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Life on the brink

IN June of this year, the Pakistani government had issued two tenders to buy LNG on the international market but didn’t receive any bids....

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Growing ransomware attacks

WHILE one part of the world remains immersed in territorial warfare — Russian tanks versus Ukrainian missiles — another attacker, which is not so...

27.09.2023 100

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The deaths to come

THE situation in the country has become dire. For the past year, nearly every month has brought with it a feeling of foreboding. This, many Pakistanis...

20.09.2023 100

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Deathbed regrets

WITH great wealth comes great privilege. In the case of the US, that privilege extends to the creation of a sterilised distance between the dying and...

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Fallout: The West’s top-down feminism in Afghanistan

https://arab.news/mf4zv Last week, Franc evacuated five women who were “threatened” by the Taliban from Pakistan to Paris. The two years during...

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