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14-Year Failure and the $8 Billion ‘Bureaucratic Gap’

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Sajid Salamat

Two-Nation Theory and Pakistan-Bangladesh

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Sajid Salamat

From Normandy to Bondi

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Sajid Salamat

Toshakhana Convictions

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Sajid Salamat

Bangladesh Faces Mukti Bahini Redux

Bangladesh Faces Mukti Bahini Redux

The brutal killing of student leader Usman Hadi in Bangladesh has sent shockwaves across South Asia. It raises urgent questions about the...

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Sajid Salamat

Role of the New Minorities’ Rights Commission

Role of the New Minorities’ Rights Commission

Pakistan took a crucial legislative step toward strengthening protections for religious minorities with the passage of the National Commission for...

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Sajid Salamat

United Nations at 80! (Part I)

The United Nations (UN), created in 1945, had the goal of actively maintaining peace within the international community. In the wake of World War...

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Sajid Salamat

Pakistan’s Quiet Success Story

Pakistan’s Quiet Success Story

For decades, Pakistan treated energy efficiency and conservation as peripheral concerns-desirable, but never urgent. Power shortages, circular...

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Sajid Salamat

Pakistan’s Export Delusion

By December 2025, Pakistan’s export debate should have matured beyond slogans, press releases, and recycled policy promises. Instead, the...

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Sajid Salamat

Decline of Confrontational Politics

Decline of Confrontational Politics

In recent times, the political drama unfolding around the Adiala incident has captured widespread attention, but not for reasons that inspire...

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Sajid Salamat

Bondi Beach and Misinformation

The Bondi Beach attack was a moment of horror that demanded sobriety, precision and restraint, yet almost as soon as the first police briefings...

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Sajid Salamat

Future of Pakistan-Afghanistan Ties

Future of Pakistan-Afghanistan Ties

Pakistan’s unwavering commitment to a peaceful, stable, and prosperous Afghanistan remains the cornerstone of its foreign policy. This bond is...

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Sajid Salamat

CM Bihar Revives the Memory of Ravana

Leadership is the mirror through which the moral character of a nation is reflected. In societies that claim democratic maturity, elected leaders...

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Sajid Salamat

India: a Fascist State!

The recent incident in Bihar, where Chief Minister Nitish Kumar publicly pulled the veil from a Muslim woman’s face, brutally stripped away the...

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Sajid Salamat

Quantum Mechanics Education

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has declared 2025 as the Year of Quantum Science and Technology under the leadership of the United...

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Sajid Salamat

Independence Cannot Be Subsidised: Why Government Advertising Is Not a Press Freedom Issue

Independence Cannot Be Subsidised: Why Government Advertising Is Not a Press Freedom Issue

APNEC’s characterisation of the government’s decision to withhold advertisements from a specific newspaper as an “attack on livelihoods” and...

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Sajid Salamat

Radicalised Seminaries in Afghanistan

Radicalised Seminaries in Afghanistan

In August 2021, after taking over the Kabul throne in a dramatic way, the Afghan Taliban strategised the national education system by establishing...

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Sajid Salamat

Why Washington Just Placed a $686 Million Bet on Pakistan?

For years, I’ve listened to analysts claim Washington was washing its hands of us. So, honestly? I felt a real sense of vindication when the State...

17.12.2025 10

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Sajid Salamat

National Security Strategy of the US

Released in November, the document called the National Security Strategy of the United States (US) exudes significant aspects. Regarding foreign,...

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Sajid Salamat

Pakistan’s Long War Without Accountability

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Sajid Salamat

Misleading Lies

Nobody in their right mind likes the permeating ambience of confrontation between the Army and PTI, which, unfortunately, is a sequel to a false...

17.12.2025 2

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Sajid Salamat

Philosophy of Identity in the Digital Self

Philosophy of Identity in the Digital Self

The way we perceive and represent human identity has changed dramatically in the digital age. Identity is today shaped by screens, profiles, and...

16.12.2025 2

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Sajid Salamat

Significance of Conflict Management

It has been over two years since I began writing about our situation in World War 2.5, which could expand both horizontally and vertically at any...

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Sajid Salamat

Psychology of Misinformation

In today’s world, it is no longer the lack of information that troubles us, but the overwhelming flood of it. Our phones buzz with alerts before we...

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Sajid Salamat

Reforming Administration, Not Geography

Pakistan is at a critical crossroads in governance. With a population nearing 240 million in 2025, concentrated primarily in four provinces –...

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Sajid Salamat