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Unabated crime

The citizens of Pakistan’s largest city and commercial hub continue to fall victim to street crime. Cases of murder-robbery incre­ased manifold...

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A tenure marred by diplomatic blunders, miscalculations

Joe Biden’s unexpected decision not to seek re-election has reverberated through the global political landscape, fundamentally altering...

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Majid Burfat

Time to scrap the deal with IPPs — now

The nation is reeling under the shock and awe of supra-inflated electricity bills. They are being fleeced to the core, and there is no remedy in...

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Ishtiaq Ali Mehkri

Let the Games begin

The Olympics have always served as a symbol of hope and unity, bringing together nations from across the globe in the spirit of healthy...

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No choosing of sides

The Foreign Office has done some plain-talking by reminding that Pakistan is not part of camp politics. At a weekly media briefing yesterday, it...

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The evolving role of judges

We all possess a certain image of a judge. He is old, impartial, and stern. He decides only what is necessary, says only what is necessary, and on...

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Mohsin Saleem Ullah

What else is new?

Could you believe it? For nearly 36 hours last week, I was a Trump supporter. Then, I was not. It isn’t that difficult a story to understand or...

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Farrukh Khan Pitafi

Art, a CIA weapon?

Dear Uncle Sam, I am writing this letter of consolation realising that you might need one as the conspiracy theory of ‘Modern Art being sponsored...

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Sadia Pasha Kamran

Green passport blues

The Pakistani passport remains one of the weakest in the world, coming in fourth from the bottom among 103 countries ranked in the Henley Passport...

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Palestinian thaw (Edit1)

China is back with a bang in the Middle East. For the first time in its Communist politburo history, it has brokered reconciliation among political...

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American democracy in disarray

Democracy was always a contested notion. The was no real democracy in ancient Greece for women or slaves. The self-proclaimed ‘mother of...

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Syed Mohammad Ali

Anti-Semitism and Palestine

Anti-Semitism has been humanity’s abhorable crime, a crime of hating, discriminating and killing a part of its own; especially since the...

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Aneela Shahzad

China reevaluating CPEC undertaking?

A rethink on big-ticket economic engagement under CPEC is underway in Beijing. This impression stems from recent interactions with Chinese regional...

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Imtiaz Gul

Karachi drownings

As the avoidable yet unfortunate incidents of drowning continue, four more people, including two women, drowned off the Turtle Beach and Sea View...

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Digital dissent

It seems the government is not tired of opening Pandora’s boxes. Its recent decision to try tech-savvy people for ‘digital terrorism’ is...

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CDA tree plantation

The Capital Development Authority’s initiative to plant one million trees on the Margalla Hills is a commendable effort in promoting...

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Al-Qaeda, Bannu and the road ahead

There is a disturbing alliance of interest across Durand Line. Without being alarmist in any way, there is greater anti-Pakistan convergence among...

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Inam Ul Haque

Muslims in India facing a thousand shades of hatred

A concerted effort is underway to marginalise Muslims in India. The practice of marginalising a community often begins by belittling its social...

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Durdana Najam

Software and hardware of Pakistani politics

Many have seen the famous interview where Steve Jobs and Bill Gates sat down together for a lengthy discussion about their parallel journeys in the...

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Imran Jan

Social media balance and Pakistan

The phenomenon of social media has dramatically changed behaviours, preferences, and opportunities in the sphere of interpersonal communication....

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Noureen Akhtar

Faulty chairlifts

A father drowned while attempting to rescue his son stranded over the Indus River in a manually operated chairlift in Bisham tehsil, Khyber-...

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Policing power theft

Efforts to eradicate power theft in Pakistan face significant challenges, despite much more aggressive policing in recent weeks. Although the...

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Taxing the wealthy

The Federal Budget 2024-25 faces the same old dilemmas of balancing revenues and expenditures, containing current account deficit and inflation....

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Politics of hate and verbal duels

There was a time when America and the West were looked upon as a beacon of democratic values and culture but not anymore. The recent verbal duels...

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Talat Masood

The price of justice: is death penalty the answer?

The recent death penalty verdict for a mobile phone snatcher in Karachi has sparked a critical question: can state-sanctioned execution ever truly...

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Fatima Farooqi

Taxing retailers

Retailers and traders have finally been roped into the tax net. The new policy, however, has many loopholes and it is bound to be exploited by the...

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Missing Priya Kumari

The disturbing case of missing seven-year-old Priya Kumari has sparked a wave of concern and action from her parents and civil society, who have...

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Division of labour

The Division of Labour goes hand in hand with the civilisational growth of humanity. Humans progressed and innovated from hunter-gatherer societies...

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Muhammad Wajahat Sultan

Killing women

In yet another distressing incident of gender violence reported in recent weeks, a 28-year-old woman in Faisalabad was brutally beaten to death by...

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Biden’s pullout

US President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign was not just a Sunday surprise for news junkies and the media — even his...

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The myth and reality of Nato’s invincibility

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) on July 9 in Washington DC sends a clear message that the world...

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Dr Moonis Ahmar

Dispelling rumours

In an earnest effort to put the record straight, the military has retorted that some anti-social elements are at work to harm national interests. In...

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The ‘what if’ questions

During my PhD, I worked on computer simulations of biological systems and processes. The idea was to simulate how a system would develop, evolve or...

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Muhammad Hamid Zaman

The remains of morality

We are an insecure nation. We are brought up as ferocious creatures, to defeat any and all competition around us. And due to such deep founded...

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Zorain Nizamani

Navigating India’s treacherous path towards regional stability

There are no meaningful changes in the Modi’s new cabinet, with four key ministries held by diehard BJP members. All those ministers who played...

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Sanaullah

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