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Running on sunshine: Pakistan’s solar boom to tide over Middle East energy crisis

Running on sunshine: Pakistan’s solar boom to tide over Middle East energy crisis

As war and volatility disrupt global fuel flows, Pakistan’s turn to solar is emerging as an economic buffer.

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Zofeen T. Ebrahim

The binary trap: How narratives of ‘Us vs Them’ manufacture consent for war

The binary trap: How narratives of ‘Us vs Them’ manufacture consent for war
18.03.2026 9

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Risa tohid

What the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites means for the non-proliferation regime

What the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites means for the non-proliferation regime
16.03.2026 10

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Haleema saadia

Protecting consumers or balancing the books: Pakistan’s oil dilemma

Protecting consumers or balancing the books: Pakistan’s oil dilemma
13.03.2026 20

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Nasir Jamal

The violence of liberation: How war is sold through the language of women’s rights

The violence of liberation: How war is sold through the language of women’s rights
12.03.2026 30

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Sadaf Shabbir

The sinking of IRIS Dena: A quiet death of the rules-based order

10.03.2026 20

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Baqar hasan

Brace for impact: The Middle East war has reached Pakistan

09.03.2026 90

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Khurram Husain

What would a feminist Karachi look like?

08.03.2026 10

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Ivs students

International Women’s Day: For girls in Pakistan’s tribal belt, sports come at a cost

07.03.2026 30

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Zofeen T. Ebrahim

From end of the Earth to World Cup final: The audacity of the Kiwi

New Zealand in the T20 World Cup final against the most expensively assembled cricket nation on the planet is not a sporting achievement. It is a...

07.03.2026 10

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Junaid Aziz

From the end of the Earth to the World Cup final — the audacity of the Kiwi

New Zealand in the T20 World Cup final against the most expensively assembled cricket nation on the planet is not a sporting achievement. It is a...

07.03.2026 20

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Junaid Aziz

Shooting at Karachi’s US consulate: What does international law say?

The violence that unfolded at the US consulate in Karachi raises urgent legal questions about sovereignty, the use of force, and the narrow avenues...

05.03.2026 70

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Aniqa Atiq Khan

Belief, border and bombs: What long-term instability in Iran means for Pakistan

For a country battling insurgencies in two provinces, facing a hostile Afghan Taliban regime, and grappling with deep internal divisions, instability...

04.03.2026 40

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Zia Ur Rehman

Israel, US bomb Iran: A timeline of how threats escalated into war

The roots of fresh developments date back to the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025 and the nuclear talks between US and Tehran.

02.03.2026 30

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News Desk

The US and Israel struck Iran despite headway in negotiations. What is the endgame here?

As it is with most asymmetric conflicts, Iran wins if it doesn’t lose, and the US loses if it doesn’t win.

01.03.2026 40

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Ayesha Malik

Misinformation and memes run amok amidst Pak-Afghan conflict

In times of war, misinformation distorts reality, and mockery distorts humanity. Together, they deepen divisions.

28.02.2026 30

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Zahrah Mazhar

Where do Pakistan, Afghanistan go from here

Kabul needs to address the question of armed groups operating from its soil; Islamabad must convert its battlefield advantage into diplomatic...

27.02.2026 20

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Baqir Sajjad Syed

From paper to action: The missing link in Pakistan’s response to climate change

26.02.2026 20

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Sahar arshad mahmood

The shutdown of USAID and the deeper crisis behind it

22.02.2026 90

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Shuyan Huang

Pakistan’s energy sector isn’t broken by chance. It’s broken by design

22.02.2026 10

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Muhammad hamza latif

When floods come back, they find the same people waiting

12.02.2026 40

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Ehsan Leghari

Net metering billing: Who pays the price for Pakistan’s new solar regime?

11.02.2026 30

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Manzoor Ahmed Alizai Rimsha Rehan

Between grand claims and thin allocations, who really owns Karachi’s crisis?

09.02.2026 10

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Imran Ayub

From guardrails to gaslighting: How the Grok fiasco redefined AI accountability

07.02.2026 20

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Rafay Mahmood

The eternal ascent: Basant returns to the skies of Lahore

04.02.2026 10

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Salman Tahir

Crime control or state criminality? Policing, power and impunity in Punjab

02.02.2026 10

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Zoha Waseem

It’s time public toilets are treated as core urban infrastructure

It’s time public toilets are treated as core urban infrastructure As cities swell and skylines thicken, urban planning has quietly become a matter...

30.01.2026 9

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Masooma Shakir Faryal Raza

Tirah: buried under snow and circumstance

Tirah: buried under snow and circumstance Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been ‘under the weather’ lately; not just because of the low temperatures and...

29.01.2026 10

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Ismail Khan

Multilateralism is straining at the seams: Is global cooperation in retreat?

Multilateralism is straining at the seams: Is global cooperation in retreat? Over a decade ago, in a rare moment of global unity – rather difficult...

27.01.2026 20

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Amna Mahmood

Imaan-Hadi arrest and a state at war with dissent

The misuse of power is a betrayal of the state’s responsibility. And this conduct reflects a deliberate strategy of intimidation designed to silence...

25.01.2026 20

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Rida Hosain

The interminable wait between life and death at Gul Plaza in Karachi

In Karachi, waiting has become part of the disaster itself: waiting for water, for help, for answers, for reforms. And in that waiting, lives are lost...

23.01.2026 20

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Muzhira Amin

‘We have lost a piece of the city’s soul’: What the Gul Plaza inferno means for Karachi

This isn’t just one person’s story. It is the case for most Karachiites, across class and generation, for whom Gul Plaza simply existed in the...

22.01.2026 30

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Aniqa Atiq Khan

Gul Plaza, SBCA, and the human cost of bad governance

Buildings become death traps not because the rules are unclear, but because enforcement has been deliberately neutralised.

20.01.2026 20

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Imtiaz Bhatti

The lost libraries of Lyari

The lost libraries of Lyari My journey into higher education began in my coastal hometown of Pasni, passed through the sprawl of Karachi, and...

17.01.2026 20

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Hazaran Rahim Dad

Why do so many people in Pakistan suddenly have a button phone? (It’s not for the vibes)

Of the 12.05 million mobile phone units assembled during the first five months of 2025, 54pc or 6.53 million were 2G feature phones, PTA data reveals.

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Saadiya Atiq

From reading rooms to commercial centres: The lost libraries of Lyari

In 1992, Lyari had 27 libraries, excluding the reading rooms. The number shrank to 11 in the early 2000s, and new books stopped coming in after 2005.

14.01.2026 50

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Hazaran Rahim Dad

Could Trump pull a Venezuela on Iran?

As inflation soars and the rial crumbles, Iran’s streets erupt in protest, while the world waits to see who will step in, or stir the fire.

12.01.2026 10

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Sidrah Roghay

Consent on trial: How Pakistan’s courts are failing rape survivors

As 2026 dawns, women in Pakistan are left grappling with a stark reality: rape and marital rape continue to be misinterpreted by judges in the...

10.01.2026 20

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Zofeen T. Ebrahim

How Ibne Safi taught an entire generation to read

As reading shifts from shared print cultures to fragmented digital feeds, what happens to the common habits that once anchored public life?

08.01.2026 30

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Shuyan Huang

’We did this incredible thing’: Trump’s capture of Maduro and the ‘complexities’ of international law

America’s actions are a violation of Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter and a clear act of aggression.

05.01.2026 40

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Ayesha Malik

The year the judiciary lost everything

The 2025 amendments cross into full Orwell territory: undefined offences of ‘fake’ or ‘false’ information, and a ban on ‘aspersions’...

03.01.2026 100

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Asad Rahim Khan Hassan Abdullah Niazi

The year of Gen Z

While history has often only recognised generations after they have altered the course of things, 2025 hints at a time when recognition and impact...

01.01.2026 50

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Aniqa Atiq Khan

2025 — Pakistan’s year of water wars

Pakistan has now witnessed the consequences of weakened water diplomacy, internal mistrust, infrastructure neglect, and climate volatility converging...

31.12.2025 20

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Ehsan Leghari

From sick man to regional security provider: Pakistan’s year of geopolitical openings

After years of strategic drift, 2025 has placed Pakistan in a rare sweet spot where its allies and partners see it as a country that offers them...

29.12.2025 40

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Uzair M. Younus

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

Colonial travelogues and Hindu nationalist narratives have long cast Kashmiri Muslims as perpetual outsiders in their own land.

26.12.2025 40

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Maheen Azmat

Pakistan’s solar shift has a gender problem

Rapid household solarisation across the country is often celebrated as a quiet revolution. But beneath this hopeful imagery lies a harder, less...

24.12.2025 100

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Zahra Naeem

The silent exclusion: When technology speaks every language but ours

The promise of technology as a saviour isn’t entirely wrong. But it will remain a myth until it serves us in the languages we live in, speak in, and...

22.12.2025 50

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Khansa Maria

Algorithmic crowd: The changing anatomy of mobs in Pakistan

To preserve public safety, the state must begin by accepting a simple truth: the crowd now begins in the feed, not on the street.

19.12.2025 30

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Abdul Wahab

Is international law truly ‘law’?

International law is not contingent upon flawless compliance but emerges from the interplay of institutional coherence, collective recognition and...

17.12.2025 30

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Muhammad Siddique Ali Pirzada