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Paradise lost: Kashmir, orientalism, and the politics of belonging

Kashmir has long occupied a curious space in the European imagination. For centuries, travellers, merchants, and colonial administrators produced...

yesterday 20

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Maheen Azmat

Pakistan’s solar shift has a gender problem

In a quiet Rawalpindi neighbourhood, where the power grid often dictates the rhythm of life, one family has transitioned from stopgap solutions to...

24.12.2025 70

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Zahra Naeem

The silent exclusion: When technology speaks every language but ours

Technology loves to promise miracles. For people like me, it is often marketed as a great equaliser; an assurance that with the right device,...

22.12.2025 30

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Khansa Maria

Algorithmic crowd: The changing anatomy of mobs in Pakistan

For decades, public mobilisation followed a predictable path in Pakistan: political parties issued calls, clerics announced processions, and unions...

19.12.2025 3

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Abdul Wahab

Is international law truly ‘law’?

In recent years, the legitimacy of international law as a licit system has become a matter of profound scholarly interrogation and diplomatic...

17.12.2025 2

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Muhammad Siddique Ali Pirzada