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WATER scarcity is no longer a distant threat for Pakistan; it is a crisis already unfolding in the lives of millions. Pakistan ranks among the...
THE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has said that it shot down a Houthi drone near Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, on Tuesday, triggering swift regional...
THE story of human civilization is a story of continuous transformation. Throughout history, humanity has progressed by creating tools and...
ON 27 July, I wrote in these pages that GM maize is a double-edged sword for Pakistan. Biotechnology can improve productivity, pest management and...
THE Pakistan Defence Forces have been continuously battling foreign-sponsored terrorism since 2002, which has become an existential threat to the...
THE 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum (BXF) convened at a moment when the rules-based international order anchored in the UN Charter is undergoing...
The collision between a Pakistan Navy and an Indian Navy warship in the North Arabian Sea on 15 Sep 26 merits to be seen as more than a navigational...
Sialkot has always been a city of enterprise, hard work and determination. Known internationally for its industries, exporters and skilled workforce,...
NEW political tension between the MQM and the ruling party is intensifying over the issue of creating new administrative units in Sindh. The hard...
THE renewed debate over new provinces, devolution and the nature of governance ultimately converges on a larger question: what kind of state,...
TIME appears simple because human beings experience it in one direction: the past disappears, the future has not yet arrived and our lives move...
BALOCHISTAN has remained Pakistan’s most strategically important and security-sensitive province for decades. Its vast territory, mineral resources,...
EVERY year, International Equal Pay Day reminds us of a principle that is simple in expression but profound in its implications: women and men should...
PAKISTAN’S religious diversity is reflected in its churches, temples, gurdwaras and other places of worship, but its real significance lies in the...
EVERY year on 17 September, World Patient Safety Day reminds us of a fundamental principle of health care: people seeking treatment should be...
ON 12 June 2026, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reportedly declared that India would halt Indus River water flows to Pakistan over cross-border...
THE impact of rising petrol prices on our personal lives can be gauged from an announcement by Dr Inam-ul-Haq Javed. Dr Sahib is deeply devoted to...
IN less than three years, Punjab has transferred the management of roughly thirteen thousand government schools to private operators, non-governmental...
INDIA’S annexation of Jammu and Kashmir is widely regarded as illegal under international law, with global consensus recognizing the region as a...
Among the emerging technologies, AI has emerged as a breakthrough capability that has reshaped labour relations, digital governance, national security...
Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, offers a fascinating picture of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is evolving from a...
The “convergence” of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) represents a distinct “paradigm” in...
IN July 2026, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told the Pakistan Economic Summit in Islamabad that the governance system the country has operated under...
IT will not be an overstatement that PPP ruled Sindh provincial government is opposing the idea of new administrative units with extra-ordinary...
SOMETHING seems to have become seriously entangled in the prevailing geopolitical order. The United States is Israel’s principal patron and...
PAKISTAN is searching for sustainable ways to accelerate economic growth, increase exports, reduce poverty and create employment. We debate...
PAKISTAN’S latest debate over administrative restructuring offers an opportunity far more consequential than simply creating new provinces or...
“Government job lagwa do” is a familiar request in many Pakistani households. Behind those three words lies a bigger idea of what a successful...
When the present is haunting and the future darkening- the quiet theft has won. To waste life away and to choke a child’s breath before it ever...
Some friendships are built through words, while others are tested through decades of shared experience. Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates belong...
PAKISTAN is not suffering from a dearth of economic visions, growth strategies, development frameworks and institutional arrangements to achieve them...
THE gravest threats to national security rarely appear out of nowhere. More often, they announce themselves quietly through small, scattered and...
THIS article maybe viewed in continuation of my earlier article “SDZ: A smarter path to industrial growth in Pakistan” published in Pakistan...
PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian’s presence at the 11-nation BRICS summit in Delhi frustrates President Donald Trump’s attempt to isolate Iran...
IS AI really going to dehumanize civilization? I think the opposite is also plausible, considering the nuanced possibilities of the historical...
It’s 2AM and Ali’s sitting on his window sill staring at the dead body in the middle of his street. Earlier in the day, the sound of children’s...
The true measure of police performance is not merely the number of cases registered or suspects arrested. The real success of an effective policing...
IT was at my cousin’s office years ago that I met him. He was, according to my cousin, a star salesman, “Hear him Bob,” said my cousin, “He...
When Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal proposed dividing Pakistan into 12 to 15 smaller administrative units—or, alternatively, setting up 160 empowered...
EVERY few years, Pakistan holds its breath over a single acronym and every few years, it exhales as if the danger has passed. GSP has survived four...
The latest ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague has placed the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 at the center of renewed...
Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few” So said Winston Churchill during the battle of Britain paying...
PAKISTAN has become remarkably good at surviving political crises and remarkably bad at ending them. Governments change, leaders are removed, arrested...
PAKISTAN and the United Arab Emirates share more than diplomatic ties. They share history, faith, values and millions of human connections. What began...
WRITING in a contemporary newspaper, Nighat Dad, a digital rights advocate, offered a critical comment on the idea of a ‘smart city’: it is not...
A child with a stunted body carries a much larger story than a health statistic. In Pakistan, child malnutrition has remained stubbornly high for...
QUAID-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s vision of a state of Pakistan deserves to be treated not as ceremonial rhetoric but as a practical national...
IN a coordinated move that has visibly rattled Tel Aviv, the United Kingdom, France and Canada announced on 8 September that they would ban imports of...
IN an era where narratives often overshadow realities, Xinjiang stands as a case study in how development, heritage and security can coexist. I...
Hebei Province is a remarkable part of China where ancient history, natural beauty, modern technology and higher education exist side by side. Located...
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