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Rich land, poor governance

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News Desk

Institutionalised Islamophobia in IIOJK

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Dr Muhammad Khan

Reforms threaten power

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Farrukh Saleem

From Monroe Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine

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Tariq Aqil

Legal insights on the Indus Waters Treaty

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Divided regions, disadvantaged youth

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Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

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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News Desk

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...

yesterday 10

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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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News Desk

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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News Desk

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

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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News Desk

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