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A Suicide in Higher Education

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Sajid Salamat

Quaid’s Advice To Public Servants

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Sajid Salamat

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto: A Beacon of Courage and Democracy

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Sajid Salamat

Decarbonisation of the Steel Sector

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Sajid Salamat

Pakistan in 2025

Pakistan entered 2025 under the shadow of the Pahalgam massacre. It arrived under pressure, alert to risk, and newly visible. However, brief albeit...

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Sajid Salamat

Palestinian Struggle and Bondi Massacre

During the Trojan War, the invulnerable Achilles was shot and killed by an arrow of Paris, which struck him on his only mortal heel. In a similar...

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Sajid Salamat

Black Coffee

In a well-known hotel in Lahore, an elderly man was sitting alone, leisurely sipping black coffee. When my eyes fell on him, I felt that in this...

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Sajid Salamat

ROI’s Aftermath: When Pakistan Celebrates Returns and Forgets the Cost

In Pakistan, return on investment has quietly become a closing statement rather than a starting question. Once a project, policy, or transaction...

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Sajid Salamat

Evolving Pak-US relations

On December 21, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt (retired) wrote an op-ed, “Trump’s surprising policy turn on Pakistan”, that appeared in the Washington...

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Sajid Salamat

Mr Jinnah, the Fashion Icon

The youngest Indian lawyer to leave Lincoln’s Inn, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was truly a masterpiece; a polished, put-together man. While there have been...

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Sajid Salamat

Shielding Women Online

Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) has quietly become one of the most dangerous frontiers of violence against women in Pakistan....

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Sajid Salamat

In the Spirit of Quaid-e-Azam

In the Spirit of Quaid-e-Azam

Pakistan pauses to remember the man who defied history’s odds and redrew its map every 25 December. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is not merely...

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Sajid Salamat

Burden of Beginnings

History offers few moments as revealing as the opening chapters of a century. The first quarter of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries stands...

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Sajid Salamat

2025: Pakistan’s Year of Strategic Success

The year 2025 has turned out to be an unusually fortunate one for Pakistan. As we approach the close of December, it is clear that this is no...

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Sajid Salamat

From Strategic Reset to Global Leader

From Strategic Reset to Global Leader

By blending diplomatic deftness with an emerging export-driven economic statecraft, 2025 will be remembered as a year Pakistan reclaimed its agency...

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Sajid Salamat

Quaid-e-Azam and the Productive Youth

Youth are the real assets and the cornerstone of a nation’s future. In Pakistan, fortunately, the majority of the people are young between the ages...

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Sajid Salamat

Watercolour Militancy

A monitoring organisation claims that, with or without Taliban cooperation, Al-Qaeda has “blended itself with the TTP.” The Taliban’s claim that...

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Sajid Salamat

Whispers in the Corridors of Power: The enigmatic presence of Iqbal Latif

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Zuha Shahzad

Why is Pakistan Winning in Trump’s World?

Why is Pakistan Winning in Trump’s World?

The world is stepping into a new season, where familiar certainties are starting to fade and new possibilities are beginning to take shape amidst...

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Sajid Salamat

Rising Epidemic of Diabetes and Hypertension

Rising Epidemic of Diabetes and Hypertension

The rapid escalation of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Pakistan, particularly diabetes and hypertension, has become a serious public health...

23.12.2025 3

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Sajid Salamat

The Crisis We Still Whisper About

Pakistan debates inflation, unemployment, failing schools, and collapsing hospitals almost every day. Yet the one issue quietly sitting beneath all...

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Sajid Salamat

Separation of East Pakistan was the culmination of a two-decade-long process

Separation of East Pakistan was the culmination of a two-decade-long process

Relations between Pakistan and Bangladesh have shown signs of improvement since the ouster of former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid...

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Zuha Shahzad

PIA Deal at 135 Billion: Reform, Risk, or Ruin?

PIA Deal at 135 Billion: Reform, Risk, or Ruin?

Arif Habib has reportedly bought Pakistan International Airlines in a deal valued around 135 billion rupees — and whether this turns into salvation...

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Remembering Gul Muhammad Gaad

We lost an iconic son of Larkana on 15 December 2025. His death ended a long era of a nationalist and ideological trajectory of over eight decades....

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Sajid Salamat

Contribution of English Courses to Undergraduate Academic Development

The initiative of English courses at the undergraduate level in Pakistani universities has proved beneficial for academic development. English as a...

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Sajid Salamat