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

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Reaching the unreached

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Defence meets diplomacy, dialogue shapes destiny

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Sultan M Hali

Towards a peaceful subcontinent!

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Major R Muhammad Mahmood Khan

Regulatory reforms

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Hassan Ahmad

NAP: Path forward

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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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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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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

Economic renaissance

Economic renaissance

PAKISTAN has emerged from economic turmoil to achieve remarkable stability in 2025, showcasing one of the most impressive turnarounds in the...

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How Punjab is rewiring governance

How Punjab is rewiring governance

PUNJAB’S digital governance push is beginning to alter the province’s administrative and economic landscape. At the centre of this shift is the...

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Qudrat Ullah

What is going to happen in Iran?

THE question is one, yet the answers are many—shaped by desires and the pain of old wounds. In this unfolding situation, the cunning of external...

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Dr Farooq Adil

When ballots face bullets

BANGLADESH’S gravest threat on the road back to democracy is not procedural delay or partisan mistrust. It is something more elemental: the erosion...

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M A Hossain

Why The World Can No Longer Ignore The Drug Economy!

Why The World Can No Longer Ignore The Drug Economy!

During last five decades, Cocaine has not only thrived in Latin America, as an illicit narcotics, but has gradually transformed into a political...

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US disputed power surge

OSTENSIBLY, Venezuela is at the centre of geopolitical storm that has significantly drawn global attention from North to South—sparking debates...

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Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi

BRI, Global South and New World Disorder: A Way Forward

BRI, Global South and New World Disorder: A Way Forward

Many international organizations and leading security experts have expressed grave concerns about the emergence of a new world disorder that poses...

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Dr Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan

CPEC: Pakistan Before the Corridor, Under It, and Without It

CPEC: Pakistan Before the Corridor, Under It, and Without It

Before the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was conceived, Pakistan’s economy was constrained by structural weaknesses that had persisted...

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Zahid Maqsood Sheikh

The water weapon!

The water weapon!

FOR over six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) served as a rare cornerstone of stability in South Asia. Brokered by the World Bank, it...

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Faisal Ahmad

A world without rules: Gathering storm

A world without rules: Gathering storm

THERE are moments in history when the world changes quietly, almost imperceptibly and then there are moments when the change is so brutal, so...

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Lt Gen Omar Mahmood Hayat Retd

Might makes right

FROM the very dawn of creation, the universe has moved according to a divine equilibrium. Allah Almighty brought into existence innumerable...

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Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal

Trilateral engagement

Trilateral engagement

THE first visit of 2026 by Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar to China for Strategic Dialogue on 4th January is...

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Tahir Khan

Happiness at a cost

Happiness at a cost

IN Pakistan, celebrations are moments of spectacle and emotion. Weddings fill streets with music, laughter and colour, turning ordinary...

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Dr Zafar Khan Safdar