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Pakistan’s Draft Prosumer Policy 2025: Restricting Solar Growth And Net Metering

yesterday 10

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Dr Shahid Rahim

Pakistan’s Fight Against Terrorism: Strategy, Communities, And Reform In Action

yesterday 10

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Syed Ali Zia Jaffery

We Have Confessions To Make, My Dear Quaid

yesterday 20

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Ambassador M. Alam Brohi

Policy Myopia And Adhocism: How Pakistan Repeatedly Betrays Public Trust

yesterday 10

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Zulfiquar Rao

Rethinking University Rankings: True Quality Lies In Graduate Outcomes, Not Charts

Every few months, we see jubilant headlines announcing that a Pakistani university has climbed a few places in international rankings such as Times...

previous day 20

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Engr. Dr. Muhammad Mohsin Waqas

Despite Rising Diplomatic Clout, Pakistan Must Tread Carefully In MENA Conflicts

Just days after Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, led a delegation that reportedly concluded a defence export agreement worth over...

previous day 10

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Ishtiaq Ahmad

From Tragedy To Ideology: How Digital Platforms Are Fueling Europe’s Populist Surge

The fatal shooting at Bondi Beach last week was, in the narrowest sense, a local tragedy. Within hours of the attack, it became a global political...

previous day 10

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Mirza M. Hamza

Historic Conviction Of Former ISI Chief Signals Rare Military Accountability In Pakistan

Historic Conviction Of Former ISI Chief Signals Rare Military Accountability In Pakistan

The conviction of Lt Gen Faiz Hameed (retd) is an extraordinary event in Pakistan’s civil-military history. Yet, its significance cannot be...

tuesday 4

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Muhammad Imran

Religious Rule And State Failure: Lessons From Iran, Afghanistan, And Beyond

Religious scholars and leaders have a view of the social order that they regard as divinely ordained. Often their surety of the righteous path...

tuesday 2

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Mohammad A. Qadeer

Bondi Beach Shooting Reveals How Misinformation And Old Narratives Spread Fast

On 14 December 2025, Bondi Beach in Sydney became a crime scene. A public space associated with leisure and sunlight was punctured by gunfire....

tuesday 10

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Dr. Akif Khan

Pakistan Warns Of Severe Risks From India’s Indus Waters Treaty Violations

On 20th December 2025, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan briefed the Diplomatic Corps in Islamabad on India’s persistent...

22.12.2025 3

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Aamir Zulfiqar Khan

Global Power Shifts: China’s Strategy And Rising Tensions In South Asia And Beyond

Order has always carried within it a quiet anxiety, for its opposite is chaos. The US-led New World Order unveiled at the end of the Cold War in...

22.12.2025 30

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Dr. Hasan Zafar

Pakistan’s Print Media Crisis And The Urgent Shift To A Digital-First Model

Pakistan's news organisations, especially newspapers, need to change their business model of depending on the government of the day for their...

22.12.2025 10

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Omar Quraishi

Structural Causes Of Persistent Underdevelopment In Balochistan

“Balochistan Pakistan kay mattay ka jhoomar hai”, “Balochistan is the glimmering jewel on Pakistan’s forehead”. A fancy phrase very often...

22.12.2025 10

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Sanaullah Baloch

Bondi Beach Attack: Nationality Focus Overshadows Patterns In Religious Extremism

After the Bondi Beach attack, public debate immediately shifted to discuss the nationality of the perpetrators, whether they were Indian,...

22.12.2025 7

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Farrukh Javed

Larkana Loses Iconic Nationalist And Literary Mentor Gul Mohammad Gaad

We lost an iconic son of Larkana on 15 December 2025. His death ended a long era of a nationalist and ideological trajectory of over eight decades....

21.12.2025 2

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Ambassador M. Alam Brohi