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Keepers of civilisation

yesterday 10

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Mubeen Mirza

Condemnation games

yesterday 10

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B Elkarra And E Ahmed Mitchell

Wealth tax is a bad idea

yesterday 10

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Nadeem Ul Haque And Shahid Kardar

Fundamentals of security

yesterday 30

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Atta-Ur-Rahman

Pakistan’s invisible AI workforce

yesterday 20

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Muhammad Zaman Khan

Nuclear hot streak

yesterday 10

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K Grossman And H Wasserman

The schools that aren’t

A student’s letter recently published in a newspaper laid bare more about Balochistan’s education crisis than years of official reports ever have....

previous day 50

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Yousuf Nazar

The silent genocide

Whatever the outcomes of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Monday and the latest scenario for a ceasefire in...

previous day 30

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Norman Soloman

Failing at education

When I got admission to a US university and went there for higher studies, I was in for quite a shock. The campus was open and alive – its lawns...

previous day 60

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Usman Qadir

Why we must join the Hague Group

“For a colonised people the most essential value…is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all,...

previous day 30

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Benazir Jatoi

Beautifying Lahore

Reading the newspaper first thing in the morning, some news brings you satisfaction and some leads you to anxiety. The news of the Yellow Line...

previous day 20

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Iftekhar A Khan

Regulators at the edge

In the next three to five years, the global media landscape will change more profoundly than it has in the last three decades. Artificial...

previous day 20

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Amir Jahangir

Bitcoin

Who’s buying Bitcoin? The US, China, UK, Ukraine, North Korea, Bhutan, El Salvador, Venezuela and Finland collectively hold 527,883 Bitcoin, valued...

06.07.2025 80

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Dr Farrukh Saleem

Rethink, innovate, export

Pakistan’s economic trajectory remains stifled by structural inefficiencies, short-termism and a domestic market that simply cannot sustain...

06.07.2025 60

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Syed Asad Ali Shah

River of no return

Occasionally, there is an image or a thought that haunts you for days and disturbs your sleep. You are emotionally wounded. And I have lived...

06.07.2025 10

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Ghazi Salahuddin

Escaping the icefall

The mountains that once crowned Pakistan with serene white now glimmer like a fuse, burning from within. Right now, flash floods are tearing...

06.07.2025 20

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Dr Eric Shahzar

Empire after Ashura

It was a day of carnage with no precedents before or after the massacre in Karbala almost 1400 years ago, on the 10th day of ‘Muharram’ – the...

06.07.2025 60

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Farhan Bokhari

Poverty versus progress

Despite the various claims by ministers and the government that Pakistan is making progress in the economic sphere as well as other fields, a new...

05.07.2025 1

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Kamila Hyat

Dangerous ban

The UK House of Commons this week voted 385 to 26 to proscribe Palestine Action, a grassroots group active in protesting Britain’s complicity in...

05.07.2025 2

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Chloe Atkinson

After the budget

The budget has been passed. The applause has faded. Once again, Pakistan resumes its uneasy journey through economic difficulty this time, with a...

05.07.2025 1

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Dr Hafiz Muhammad Usman Rana

Debris of systemic collapse

Unsustainable that our national political environment has been since times far gone, I could never imagine that, not too far into the future, we...

05.07.2025 4

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Raoof Hasan

Water win

In a defining moment for international law and Pakistan’s principled diplomacy, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague has ruled...

05.07.2025 2

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Fazal Karim Dadabhoy

After Bonn, all eyes on Belem

The climate talks in Bonn (Subsidiary Body Meeting - SB62) last month, meant to lay the groundwork and finalise the agenda for COP30 in Brazil...

05.07.2025 10

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Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri

Turmoil in the Middle East

Israeli and American air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities have further aggravated the turmoil which has been the characteristic feature of...

04.07.2025 5

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Javid Husain

Spiritual kinship

Human history is full of events and tragedies that have faded from memory with the passage of time, but the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain along...

04.07.2025 3

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Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani

Beyond the bailout band-aid

A recent World Bank study, ‘Foreign Direct Investment in Retreat: Policies to Turn the Tide’, highlights a concerning decline in foreign direct...

04.07.2025 8

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Hina Ayra

The Trojan horse has entered

The Israeli strike on Iranian soil didn’t just hit a few silos; it blew open a decades-long intelligence alliance buried deep within Middle Eastern...

04.07.2025 3

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Syed Ali Haider Zaidi

No real threats

By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in The Hague in June 2025, it became clear that everything was...

04.07.2025 4

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Vijay Prashad

Sustainable solar

Pakistan’s electricity grid has faced mounting pressure for the last few years as more households installed rooftop solar panels. While solar...

04.07.2025 5

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Asad Mehmood