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Arifa Noor

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Missions aplenty

Missions aplenty

Other than their mission creep, there are some jitters behind closed doors.

yesterday 30

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The change in the air

The change in the air

The significance of the Peshawar meeting should not be lost among other national headlines.

21.01.2025 60

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Credibility crisis

Credibility crisis

For one side, social media is full of lies; for the other, mainstream media is biased.

14.01.2025 100

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A woman silenced

A woman silenced

AROUND a decade ago, when digital media was still a thing of the future, The Serial hit the market and captured imaginations. An investigative...

07.01.2025 100

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Age of anger

IN the days and weeks of ‘peacemaking’, there is advice aplenty for what the PTI and Imran Khan can or have to do. The government is ready to talk...

31.12.2024 10

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Enter the talks

IT may be the season to be jolly in some parts of the world, but here, at home, it’s the time for some ‘talking-shalking’. The PTI was the first...

24.12.2024 5

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Maulana on board

IN the wake of the 26th Amendment, it seems a weakened and tamed judiciary is now an accepted reality as the focus shifts to the legislation for...

17.12.2024 4

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The more things change…

THERE is a new alliance man in town. It is Faisal Vawda, the senator without a party. Owned by no one politically, but taken seriously by everyone,...

10.12.2024 20

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Fear of the people

SOME months ago, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) called a jirga in Gwadar. The aim was to highlight the many challenges of Balochistan such as...

03.12.2024 10

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A capital lockdown

COVID-19 may be a thing of the past for the rest of the world but in Pakistan, the lockdowns are here to stay. Lockdowns to control the smog and...

26.11.2024 8

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Politicians and their clothes

POLITICIANS and their clothes can never be separated from politics. It is the side plot which moves along with the main story — scene to scene, act...

19.11.2024 6

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The roads are killing us

LAST week, the prime minister found time to inaugurate two flyovers in Islamabad. Despite the ‘live coverage’ on television, it wasn’t a news...

12.11.2024 10

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Choked by politics

IT is becoming harder and harder to find something new to write about as far as politics in Pakistan is concerned. The country is stuck in a time...

05.11.2024 9

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A tale of two judges

ON Monday, a new chief justice presided over the Supreme Court, as people watched with hope and trepidation. The mood was not as celebratory and...

29.10.2024 2

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A hostage parliament

I HAVE always wanted to begin a piece with these clichéd lines and on Sunday night, I got the chance. ‘As these lines were being written’ is a...

22.10.2024 4

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The fight over the crown

POLITICS has been stuck at the same roundabout for weeks now, with the government and its allies obsessed with passing a constitutional amendment;...

15.10.2024 9

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More politics, not less

ONCE again, there is chaos on the streets in Islamabad and beyond. There are people on the roads, communications and life have been disrupted and...

08.10.2024 4

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Unpacking the hybrid

PAKISTANI politics is a gift which keeps on giving — to the language we speak. And the recent buzzword for the state of politics in our land is...

24.09.2024 10

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The political is personal

TWENTY years ago, four people were shot dead in Indian Gujarat. Of those killed, three were men and one was a 19-year-old woman, Ishrat Jahan. It...

17.09.2024 4

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The PTI in Islamabad

ON Sunday, the PTI was able to hold a jalsa in Islamabad. More than a year after its troubles began on May 9, 2023, and the party contested an...

10.09.2024 10

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Broken politics

BANGLADESH next door is going through a period of instability in which street protests by students ended in a government being sent home after...

13.08.2024 20

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No interest in peace

THE protests in Balochistan continue, having begun over a week ago. In the midst of much uncertainty and volatility elsewhere, including a rather...

06.08.2024 3

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No country for women

OF late, it seems as if the state of Pakistan is caught up in a constant battle with its citizens, from Balochistan to Karachi to the more central...

30.07.2024 3

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The people’s distrust

MUCH has been predicted on TV this past week about the dark fate awaiting the PTI. There was a lot of finger-wagging as those in the know made dire...

23.07.2024 5

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Courting verdicts

THE court verdict is in and it seems to have gone overwhelmingly in PTI’s favour; most of the judges felt the party continues to exist as an...

16.07.2024 3

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