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NCCIA Lahore Cracks Down On Cybercrime – 281 Arrested From 7 Illegal Call Centers, Rs 1.92 Crore Recovered

NCCIA Lahore Cracks Down On Cybercrime – 281 Arrested From 7 Illegal Call Centers, Rs 1.92 Crore Recovered

*MAJOR OPERATION AGAINST ILLEGAL CALL CENTERS* Atif Ameer revealed that *7 illegal call centers* have been raided, leading to the arrest of *281...

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Asad Kharal

Jhang registry scam reaches Lahore High Court: Chief Justice Alia Neelam lashes out at anti-corruption Punjab

_Calls IO’s Conduct “Deception of the Court” | Seeks Complete Overhaul of Anti-Corruption System by 12 October_ *The *Lahore High Court* has...

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Asad.kharal

8 October 2005: When the Earth Shook, the Pak Army Stood with the Nation

8 October 2005: When the Earth Shook, the Pak Army Stood with the Nation

The people of Pakistan feel proud of their army. It was a moment when the Pakistan Army stood with the nation. It was a moment when the nation stood...

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Abdul Basit

Trapped in the Digital Cage: How Screen Addiction Is Stealing Our Children’s Childhood

Trapped in the Digital Cage: How Screen Addiction Is Stealing Our Children’s Childhood

Consequently, many children are losing something precious that no application, game or device can ever restore: their childhood. A child may become...

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Shoukat Lohar

Rebuilding tax justice—III When judgment itself becomes the problem

Rebuilding tax justice—III When judgment itself becomes the problem

Section 132 of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, substituted through the Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 2024, commands that the Appellate Tribunal Inland...

previous day 10

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Huzaima Bukhari

The Tunnel and the Light

The Tunnel and the Light

To sharpen the question, I offered a contrast, India, a country whose majority is not Muslim, once chose APJ Abdul Kalam, a Muslim, as its president....

wednesday 10

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Syeda Salma Tahir

The Second Innings

The Second Innings

Old age here is not merely a problem of the body. Levy’s own work warns that contempt for the old springs from social attitudes, not from individual...

wednesday 10

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Sheikh Abdul Rashid

Punjab Labour Code 2026: Ten Changes That Turn HR Decisions Into Legal Decisions

Appointment letters, job descriptions, salary structures, HR policies and actual working arrangements will need to speak the same language. HR,...

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Staff Report

Rebuilding tax justice—II Who controls the tax judge?

Rebuilding tax justice—II Who controls the tax judge?

Finance Act 2024 similarly recast section 194 of the Customs Act, 1969 so that members are appointed by the Federal Government in the number, manner...

wednesday 2

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Huzaima Bukhari

Dengue and the Cost of Waiting

Dengue and the Cost of Waiting

We are not unfamiliar with dengue. The real question, therefore, is not whether Pakistan knows about dengue. The real success will not be measured by...

wednesday 20

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Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal

Remembering Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur II

Remembering Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur II

The passing of His Highness Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur II, the last ruler of the State of Khairpur, marks the end of a remarkable chapter in the...

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Sajjad Hussain Cheehani

Future lives within these wallsHe built the buildings, but in doing so, he gave generations of students hope and a place to nurture their futures

Future lives within these wallsHe built the buildings, but in doing so, he gave generations of students hope and a place to nurture their futures

He built the buildings, but in doing so, he gave generations of students hope and a place to nurture their futures. Twelve residential hostels, a...

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Mujeeb Ali Samo

Revival of Reading Culture: Back to Books

Revival of Reading Culture: Back to Books

At the same time, we should not romanticize printed books to the extent of rejecting digital reading. Reading books can interrupt this intellectual...

06.10.2026 20

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Shoukat Lohar

Licensed to Teach: How Sindh Is Redefining the Teaching Profession

Licensed to Teach: How Sindh Is Redefining the Teaching Profession

Introduced in 2023 through the Sindh Teachers Education Development Authority (STEDA), the policy aims to recognise teaching as a skilled profession...

06.10.2026 20

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Staff Report

Breaking Dependence, Securing the Future

Today, crude oil — extracted from underground reservoirs and seabeds — remains a dominant source of global energy. Pakistan’s dependence on...

06.10.2026 20

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Nabeel Badr

World Habitat Day: Adequate Housing for All

Housing may exist, but it may be overcrowded, unaffordable, unsafe, without clean water or sanitation, vulnerable to floods and extreme heat, or built...

06.10.2026 20

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Rabia Mustafa

Israel’s entry into the Gulf puts Pakistan to a strategic test

Israel’s entry into the Gulf puts Pakistan to a strategic test

For Pakistan, the important question is not merely what Israel intends, but how the emerging regional system could affect Pakistan’s security...

06.10.2026 20

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Ahsan Zia

Politics must answer politics

Politics must answer politics

But there is one lesson that every government should remember: a political march should never be treated as a joke. Whether one agrees with every...

06.10.2026 20

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Ali Sajjad

Rebuilding tax justice—I Time for National Tax Court

Rebuilding tax justice—I Time for National Tax Court

On October 28, 2009, after the reorganisation of income tax, sales tax and federal excise administration into Inland Revenue, it was renamed the...

06.10.2026 20

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Huzaima Bukhari

Poetry, Resistance & Humanity—III When Empire Entered Memory

Poetry, Resistance & Humanity—III When Empire Entered Memory

That tension deserves study, not denunciation.5 The disputed account of Ahmad Khan Kharal’s death shows why. Saeed Ahmad Butt, “Rai Ahmad Khan...

06.10.2026 20

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Anticipating authority: Early lessons of obedience for Pakistani girls

Anticipating authority: Early lessons of obedience for Pakistani girls

The consequences of this training do not just stay confined to women but also to the men. When a young boy raised in a more conservative environment...

05.10.2026 10

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Areeba Arshad

The Teachers Who Shaped Me

The Teachers Who Shaped Me

To us, a teacher was not just an employee of the school but a towering figure of wisdom. What made our teachers extraordinary was that they saw us as...

05.10.2026 20

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Syeda Salma Tahir

Can Children Learn Communism?

However, children need not view communism merely as something to be accepted or rejected. The provision reflects Indonesia’s legal position toward...

05.10.2026 10

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Staff Report

Captain Safdar becoming a story of his own

Captain Safdar becoming a story of his own

For many years, Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar had a simple introduction in Pakistani politics: he was the husband of Maryam Nawaz and the son-in-law...

05.10.2026 10

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Ali Sajjad

World Teachers’ Day 2026: Those Who Shape Our Future

World Teachers’ Day 2026: Those Who Shape Our Future

The more meaningful way of respecting teachers is to ensure quality professional education before they enter classrooms; opportunities for continuing...

05.10.2026 40

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Rabia Mustafa

Twenty-five years after 9/11—XI Who won the “War on Terror”?

Twenty-five years after 9/11—XI Who won the “War on Terror”?

It counted roughly 900,000 direct war deaths in its 2021 assessment and more than 38 million people displaced across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq,...

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Pakistan Must Make Lifesaving Medicines for Postpartum Haemorrhage Available

Pakistan Must Make Lifesaving Medicines for Postpartum Haemorrhage Available

(AN urgent appeal to strengthen access to lifesaving uterotonics in the month of October when world postpartum partum haemorrhage day is celebrated )...

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Prof Dr Muhammad Arshad Chohan

Corps Commanders Conference Issues Stern Warning against May-9 Like Violence

Corps Commanders Conference Issues Stern Warning against May-9 Like Violence

The army will protect the nation. The army will serve the nation. The army will make the nation proud. The recent Corps Commanders Conference, chaired...

05.10.2026 20

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Abdul Basit

Pakistan’s Tourism Potential: From Political Slogans to a Real Tourism Economy

Pakistan’s Tourism Potential: From Political Slogans to a Real Tourism Economy

The destination also needs environmental protection, waste management, traffic control, land-use planning and mechanisms to ensure that tourism...

05.10.2026 10

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Mian Muhammad Nadeem

Levies, surcharges and royalties – protests and solutions

Levies, surcharges and royalties – protests and solutions

There are also ten other Levies, Surcharges and Royalties, such as Natural Gas Development Surcharge, Royalty on Oil and Gas, Discount on Local Crude...

03.10.2026 30

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Hadia Batool

Twenty-five years after 9/11—IX From heroin & Kalashnikovs to synthetics & drones

Twenty-five years after 9/11—IX From heroin & Kalashnikovs to synthetics & drones

11–15; UNODC, World Drug Report 2026, section on the expansion and geographical flexibility of synthetic drug manufacture. International Narcotics...

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Dr. Ikramul Haq