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Back from the brink

Pakistan and India have managed to break out of the escalatory cycle that began on the night of May 6-7, 2025 after India retaliated with cross-border...

14.05.2025 20

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Rashed Rahman

No lessons learnt

Pakistan is a unique country in which the authorities seem incapable of learning from past experience. Here we are in the middle of trying to unravel...

12.03.2025 50

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The Kurd struggle

The Kurds are a people divided between four countries: Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. This reflects the fact that state boundaries were drawn in many...

05.03.2025 40

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Russia-Ukraine war: origins and endgame

Three years after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the advent of Donald Trump into power in the US has upset the applecart for Volodymyr Zelensky...

26.02.2025 100

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Mad Hatter strikes again…and again

US President Donald Trump, in his inimitable style and thrust, continues to rock the boat globally. Not only has he unleashed (without, it seems, any...

12.02.2025 10

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Autocracy on the march

The portents point to an overwhelming march towards autocracy. A country in the throes of unremitting crises in the political, economic and social...

05.02.2025 30

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A Mad Hatter’s tea party

Trump 2.0 has come out swinging, enacting a flurry of executive orders along the lines of what he had promised during his election campaign. A short...

29.01.2025 10

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Six canals kerfuffle

Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal has been roundly taken to task for his dismissive attitude to Sindh’s objections to the proposed construction of six...

15.01.2025 20

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What ails Kurram?

Kurram Agency has once again been in the news for all the wrong reasons. A series of land dispute/sectarian clashes have once again been in...

08.01.2025 20

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Happy New Year?

This, they say traditionally, is the turn-of-the-year season to be jolly. But even a cursory glance at the afflictions that ail Pakistan will lead...

01.01.2025 6

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The road to hell…

The government and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) have finally, after much toing and froing, come to an agreement to hold talks, with the...

25.12.2024 8

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APS and after

For a parent, the loss of a child remains a searing wound that just will not heal. And when a parent is one of many whose progeny’s lives were...

18.12.2024 10

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Bashar al-Assad’s fall

The fall of Damascus the Syrian capital came on December 8, 2024 as the climax to the fall of city after city to the lightning offensive launched...

11.12.2024 5

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Adieu Khaled Ahmed!

My friend, Editor, journalist of 40 years standing, Khaled Ahmed passed away on Sunday night, November 17, 2024. He had been ill with an array of...

19.11.2024 10

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Breathe!

Punjab as a whole, but especially the provincial capital Lahore, is once again in the grip of what has become a regular (no longer necessarily...

05.11.2024 3

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A hollow victory

After much huffing and puffing during the last few days if not weeks, the government has finally managed to get the 26th Amendment to the...

22.10.2024 5

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State vs. citizens

The twists and turns preceding and accompanying the holding of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement’s (PTM’s) Jirga in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) could not...

15.10.2024 2

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Battlefield Islamabad

What was proclaimed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leaders as a peaceful march on Islamabad to demand, among other things, the release of their...

08.10.2024 2

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Unending conflict

Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah along with 20 of his commanders in a strike in Beirut has done nothing to sate...

01.10.2024 2

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Ill-conceived gambit

The government has shot itself in the foot by launching an ill-conceived and hurried attempt to bring in a spate of Constitutional Amendments...

17.09.2024 2

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International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Enforced Disappearances (EDs) have been frequently used as a strategy to spread fear and terror in a society, according to the UN. By now, the...

03.09.2024 6

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The plight of the minorities

August 11, 2024 was ‘celebrated’ as Minorities Day, as has been the custom now since 2009. The date, August 11, was chosen to mark Quaid-e-Azam...

13.08.2024 3

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Bangladesh coup

The more than one month long agitation in Bangladesh against the quota policy has finally ended in a military coup. Army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman led...

06.08.2024 1

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