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Why stability is elusive

Why stability is elusive

Using coercive measures and undermining institutions do not produce stability.

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Dawn

Maleeha Lodhi

Growing water crisis

THE State of Global Water Resources 2025 published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) provides a comprehensive assessment of global...

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Pakistan Observer

News Desk

Paralysed prisons

PAKISTAN’S overcrowded jails distort the intention of imprisonment — rehabilitation, education, and occupational...

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Import fraud

THE under-invoicing of imports from China is not an allegation. It is an open secret in Pakistan’s markets — one...

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Pakistan’s Yemen Dilemma

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Daily Times

Sajid Salamat

Degrees without skills

UNDENIABLY, in Pakistan, a degree has become a piece of paper rather than a passport to a promising future. Thousands of youth graduate every year...

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Pakistan Observer

News Desk

A theorist of crisis

A theorist of crisis

His magnum opus, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises, published by Oxford in 2016 after nearly 20 years of writing, is not an easy book.

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Dawn

Umair Javed

Rebuilding values

Rebuilding values

National values that work for all must emerge organically.

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Dawn

Huma Yusuf

Losing control of ourselves..!

WE hear of accidents happening because a car, bus or truck went out of control right? Maybe brakes failed, or too high a speed or a sudden pothole!...

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Pakistan Observer

News Desk

The Economist’s Fallacy: Smaller Provinces Do Not Break Nations

It is the hoarding of power not its devolution that endangers a federation. The Economist has dressed an old political suspicion in the sophisticated...

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Pakistan Observer

News Desk

Gaza: Human suffering & international failure

Upon the completion of three years of Israeli military aggression against the Palestinians, there has been no worthwhile response from the...

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Pakistan Observer

Dr Muhammad Khan

Humanitarian Exceptions

Humanitarian Exceptions

Humanitarian Exceptions October 12, 2026 Newspaper, Opinions, Editorials Share on Facebook Share on Twitter ...

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The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

Perilous misstep

If the authorities felt terrorism was increasing in some tribal districts and adjoining areas, they could have limited themselves to imposing a...

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Dawn

Dawn Editorial

Tax game

Tax game

Traders are smarter than the FBR. This should be recognised.

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Dawn

Farooq Arby

ADVICE: AUNTIE AGNI

‘My Talkative Roommate is Disrupting My Studies’

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Dawn (Magazines)

From Inpapermagazine

UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE OF WAR

UNDERSTANDING THE NEW AGE OF WAR

From the wars in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and West Asia and the changing balance between the United States, China and

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Dawn (Magazines)

Ejaz Haider

Cartoon

Cartoon

Cartoon October 12, 2026 Newspaper, Opinions, Cartoons Share on Facebook Share on Twitter ...

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The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

End Results

End Results

End Results October 12, 2026 Newspaper, Opinions, Editorials Share on Facebook Share on Twitter ...

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The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

GB’s Future

GB’s Future

GB’s Future October 12, 2026 Newspaper, Opinions, Editorials Share on Facebook Share on Twitter ...

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The Nation (Editorials)

The Nation Editorial

Enough of this political theatre

THERE is something deeply exhausting about watching a country remain permanently trapped in political conflict. Governments change, oppositions...

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Pakistan Observer

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

New Provinces: The People’s Case

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Daily Times

Sajid Salamat

SMOKERS’ CORNER: False Flags and Credibility

SMOKERS’ CORNER: False Flags and Credibility

Governments have often used media conditioning and false flag operations to make the public more amenable to their agendas.

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Dawn (Magazines)

Nadeem F. Paracha

Political & Security Conundrum

Political & Security Conundrum

Over the past five years (2021–2026), Pakistan has witnessed a sharp resurgence in militant violence, civil unrest, and governance breakdowns. While...

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The Nation

Saleem Qamar Butt

ARTSPEAK: THE ART OF THE UNSETTLED

Long before historians arrive at their conclusions, poets, musicians and artists are already recording the anxieties, losses and

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Dawn (Magazines)

Durriya Kazi

The Die Is Cast

The Die Is Cast

It was inevitable. It was coming. The writing had been on the wall for months, etched in the deepening chasm between the federal government and the...

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The Nation

Najm Us Saqib

GARDENING: TURMERIC HOLDS NO TERRORS

Widely used in South Asian cooking and traditional practices, turmeric is also an uncomplicated crop to grow at home

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Dawn (Magazines)

Dr Khwaja Ali Shahid

Turning salt into gold

Pakistan’s pink salt is among its most distinctive mineral resources, yet much of its economic potential remains untapped. Extracted largely as a...

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Pakistan Observer

Qudrat Ullah

Houthis and the spreading conflict in the Middle East

The current conflict in the Middle East is drawing closer to Pakistan. As discussed later in this article, the crisis in Yemen, which was once part of...

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The Express Tribune

Shahid Javed Burki

Pakistan Navy: Redefining Deterrence

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Daily Times

Sajid Salamat

Can the IRGC Deliver Peace? (Part 1)

Can the IRGC Deliver Peace? (Part 1)

Iran can withstand confrontation while losing the future its resistance is intended to protect. Military endurance may frustrate an adversary’s...

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The Nation

Ambassador G. R. Baluch

HOCKEY: HOPE AND REALITY

HOCKEY: HOPE AND REALITY

Pakistan’s hockey team managed to snag a bronze at the recently concluded Asian Games. What does it tell us about the trajectory

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Dawn (Magazines)

Ijaz Chaudhry

Russia's Taliban gamble

Russia's growing embrace of Afghan Taliban regime is raising uncomfortable questions in Islamabad. Is Moscow simply pursuing its security...

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The Express Tribune

Kamran Yousaf

Trees for Tomorrow

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Daily Times

Sajid Salamat

SOCIETY: THE KITCHEN OF ISLAMKOT

SOCIETY: THE KITCHEN OF ISLAMKOT

For decades, the Sant Nenuram Ashram in Thar has offered free meals to anyone who arrives at its doors, continuing a tradition

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Dawn (Magazines)

G.r. Junejo

TECHNOLOGY: KEEPING AI UNDER CONTROL

TECHNOLOGY: KEEPING AI UNDER CONTROL

The 1983 film WarGames imagined a computer pursuing its given objective with potentially catastrophic consequences. Today’

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Dawn (Magazines)

Deven Desai

EPICURIOUS: A KARACHI PIZZA CRAWL

From airy Neapolitan pies to crisper New York-style slices, Karachi’s pizza scene has grown to accommodate a surprisingly diverse

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Dawn (Magazines)

Riffat Rashid

Praise intolerance

The hardest thing to swallow is another person's praise, and that too if they are commended in our presence. The digestion goes worse if the...

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The Express Tribune

M Nadeem Nadir

EXHIBITION: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

EXHIBITION: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

Through green-tinged interiors and isolated figures, Usama Toru’s artwork examines the loneliness that can exist in a crowd

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Dawn (Magazines)

Hira Shahid

KP Governor's Rule: An emergency in the street and state

KP Governor's Rule: An emergency in the street and state

The Centre’s emergency is about May 9, not militancy. The PTI’s is that its supporters are no longer marching.

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Dawn Prism

Fasi Zaka

In the company of Ghalib

Two of Ghalib's verses have, at different milestones of my weary existence, drawn me deep into the ocean of imagination, gently beckoning me into...

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The Express Tribune

Haroon Rashid Siddiqi

The Borrowed Voices And Empty Minds- How Foreign Language Disrupts Critical Thought In Pakistani Students

‘Chaand kya hamara peecha karta hai?’, ‘Ham manfi alqaab logo par kiun lagaatay hain? Ham yahan tou dignity keh baaray mai parh rahay hain?’...

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Pakistan Observer

Hafsa Khan

ESSAY: THE SURNAME DOES NOT FIT

ESSAY: THE SURNAME DOES NOT FIT

What happens when a family retains its ancestry but loses the language associated with it? For an Urdu-speaking Pakhtun family

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Dawn (Magazines)

Fareha Iqtidar Khan