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Sisal: Pak sustainable fibre opportunity

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Fractured ties?

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Faisal Ahmad

Terrorism defying optimism

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Assadullah Channa

AJK elections: A democratic test.

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Sardar Abdul Khaliq Wasi 

US strikes: Backfire

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Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal

Why the United Nations needs restructuring

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Waqar Hassan

Managing trees to save lungs

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Compromised Doctor Rights & Dreams: Lessons from the UHB–CPSP Partnership

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Legal insights on the Indus Waters Treaty

Legal insights on the Indus Waters Treaty

India’s violation of the Indus Waters Treaty has no standing under international law. It is not only unlawful but entirely illegitimate, directly...

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News Desk

Reforms threaten power

In Pakistan’s case, reforms fail not because they are badly written — but because they threaten existing power centers. Pakistan’s power sector has...

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Farrukh Saleem

Rich land, poor governance

Rich land, poor governance

BALOCHISTAN is the largest territorial province of Pakistan and is blessed with vast natural resources. It contains valuable minerals such as gold,...

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News Desk

Divided regions, disadvantaged youth

Divided regions, disadvantaged youth

PAKISTAN’S development story has long been marked by a quiet but persistent imbalance, where opportunity is shaped less by merit than by geography...

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Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

From Monroe Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine

MONROE Doctrine, established by U.S. President James Monroe in 1823, declared the Americas off-limits to future European colonization and...

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Tariq Aqil

Institutionalised Islamophobia in IIOJK

In a deeply disturbing development, the Indian government has begun collecting extensive financial and personal data of mosques and religious...

yesterday 20

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Dr Muhammad Khan

Defence and Diplomacy: A Pakistan perspective for a changing international order

Across much of the world, security thinking has entered a new phase. Strategic competition among major powers has intensified, regional fault lines...

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News Desk

Reaching the unreached

Reaching the unreached

PAKISTAN is confronting a complex and protracted humanitarian crisis driven by a convergence of poverty, climate change, rapid population growth,...

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Defence meets diplomacy, dialogue shapes destiny

  AT the launch of this scribe’s book Defence and Diplomacy, gratitude was offered to the Almighty for granting me the honour of serving Pakistan...

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Sultan M Hali

Towards a peaceful subcontinent!

Towards a peaceful subcontinent!

STATESMANSHIP is not judged by loud rhetoric, emotional reaction, or military bravado. It is measured by restraint, maturity, vision, and the...

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Major R Muhammad Mahmood Khan

Regulatory reforms

Regulatory reforms

IN present times, regulatory reforms are essential to Pakistan’s strategy for achieving long-term economic stability, attracting foreign...

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Hassan Ahmad

NAP: Path forward

NAP: Path forward

PAKISTAN’S National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism was conceived in the aftermath of the horrific Army Public School attack in Peshawar in...

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Naveed Aman Khan

Iran’s turmoil: Critical analysis

ACCORDING to many international media outlets the US is likely to attack Iran through integrated airstrikes within next few days due to which...

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Dr Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan

Somalia: Confusion in Islamic world

ISRAEL has further plunged a dagger into the heart of the Muslim Ummah by officially recognizing the so-called Somaliland as an independent state....

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M Abdullah Hamid Gul

Exports need systems that work, not promises that repeat

Exports need systems that work, not promises that repeat

Pakistan’s export challenge is often misunderstood. It is not rooted in a lack of global demand, nor in the absence of capable entrepreneurs....

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Anaesthesia and obese patient

Anaesthesia and obese patient

AS modern medicine advances, anaesthesiology continues to adapt to increasingly complex patient populations. One of the most significant and...

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News Desk

Rethinking poverty, wages and taxation

THIS year, the World Bank revised its global poverty lines once again. The World Bank now uses three different poverty thresholds, depending on a...

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Dr Atiq Ur Rehman

US steps back from global cooperation

YOU may have seen the news about the United States withdrawing from United Nations Organizations. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has chosen...

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Sophia Siddiqui

Prophets and books

ACCORDING to a report in Musnad Ahmed collection of Ahadith, the Holy Prophet (PBUH) said: “From Adam to me, Allah sent a hundred and twenty-four...

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Hegemonistic world

Hegemonistic world

THE American President Donald Trump in an interview with ‘The New York Times’ said: “I don’t need international law” and his bellicose posture can...

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News Desk

Anatomy of a declining state

IN an earlier scholarly assessment, Professor Kate Sullivan de Estrada, Director of South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, envisaged...

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Dr Muhammad Khan

Export of militancy across the globe

Export of militancy across the globe

AFGHANISTAN has evolved from a post-conflict state into a strategic sanctuary for transnational terrorist organizations, with consequences that...

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Tariq Khan Tareen

KP: From drift to direction

KP: From drift to direction

KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is no longer drifting, it is stalling. What was once sold as Pakistan’s most promising reform experiment now stands...

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Dr Zafar Khan Safdar