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Looming National Security Threat

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Sajid Salamat

Pakistan & Solar PV Technology

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Sajid Salamat

How India Sponsors Unrest in Balochistan

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Sajid Salamat

Rethinking the Fate of CSS’s Unallocated Talent

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Sajid Salamat

When Ritual Becomes Spectacle

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Sajid Salamat

Invisible hours: The unspoken toll of women’s unpaid labour

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Maleeha Zahid

Pakistan’s climate injustice

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Maleeha Zahid

Punjab Government’s Comprehensive Arrangements for Muharram-ul-Haram

Muharram-ul-Haram is a sacred month that symbolises the deep reverence, love, and emotional attachment Muslims hold for the Ahl-e-Bayt (the family...

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Sajid Salamat

Endless Grief: Silent Tears Fall

No warning, no hint, no insinuation, and you are gone – within 45 minutes – Azam. The doctors were helpless; the angel of mortality was quicker....

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Sajid Salamat

What about Relevance?

In Pakistan’s volatile political theatre, few stories have turned as sharply as that of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf. Once riding a crest of...

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Sajid Salamat

Toxic Promises: Hazardous Waste Policy 2022 (Part I)

Hazardous waste is a major global environmental challenge and poses serious risks to human health and safety, and other species of the ecosystem....

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Sajid Salamat

Bajaur: A tragedy that demands reflection

By Rimsha Azhar A devastating tragedy unfolded yesterday in Bajaur when a remote-controlled bomb blast claimed the lives of the Assistant...

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Maleeha Zahid

Fiscal Revival

When nations spiral into economic despair, the headlines write themselves grim, accusatory, and speculative. But when a country begins to claw its...

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Sajid Salamat

The measure of minds: rethinking merit in a race-shaped education system

By Mobeen Arshad Education should be about liberation not competition. But in our academic culture, it often feels like the only students who...

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Maleeha Zahid

Selective Narratives Don’t Build Stability

In the current global environment, the credibility of media platforms has increasingly come under question. An example of this is U.S. President...

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Sajid Salamat

The Pen Stops at Kashmir

Shashi Tharoor has written eloquently and forcefully about the brutality of British colonial rule in India. But the question is: will he ever turn...

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Sajid Salamat

Manufacturing Consent for Israel

For decades, Israel has enjoyed a staggering level of impunity for its violence in the Middle East, an indulgence no other state could dream of....

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Sajid Salamat

A Historic People-Oriented Budget

There has been a lot of fuss about the new provincial budget presented in the Punjab Assembly in the recent days. Members of the opposition have...

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Sajid Salamat

Communicating Policy

Over recent years, governance worldwide has begun to recognise a quiet yet significant truth: policies, no matter how well-crafted, cannot succeed...

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Sajid Salamat

The media literacy crisis

By Rimsha Azhar In an age of constant connectivity, the line between fact and fiction is growing dangerously thin. Information now travels rapidly...

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Maleeha Zahid

How May–June 2025 Could Have Ended the Region—And How Trump Stopped It

In May and June of 2025, the world stood on the edge of disaster. The simultaneous push to destabilize both Pakistan and Iran—through military...

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Reel life vs real life: gen Z, brain rot, and the collapse of attention

  By Rimsha Azhar Something is happening to this generation, and it’s hard to ignore. Teenagers scroll for hours without blinking, eyes locked on...

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Maleeha Zahid

Weaponising Freedom

Pakistan endures a heavy burden in its war against terror: over 84,000 civilians and security personnel have been killed since 2001, with Pashtun...

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Sajid Salamat

Drowned by Neglect

The monsoon arrived not with warning, but with vengeance. It had rained the night before-nothing extraordinary at first, just a steady rhythm of...

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Sajid Salamat

Terrorism Cloaked in Faith

At the United Nations Security Council, Pakistan has once again voiced deep concern over the serious threat it faces from the Tehrik-e-Taliban...

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Sajid Salamat

Upholding Law Amidst Crisis

In the serene valleys of Pahalgam, where the Lidder River meanders through alpine meadows, the tranquillity of Kashmir was shattered on April 23,...

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Sajid Salamat

Iran-Israel Conflict and Pakistan

The recently concluded war between Iran and Israel has left a trail of questions and lessons for Pakistan as its ripple effects are already...

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Sajid Salamat

New MAD in South Asia (Part I)

While February 2019 may have only shattered India’s confidence in its multi-billion-dollar war machines, May 2025 has totally shattered its dream...

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Sajid Salamat

The freedom to roam: A privilege denied to women

By Rimsha Azhar To be a woman in Pakistan is to live in a state of constant self-surveillance. Every step outside involves calculation: of risk, of...

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Maleeha Zahid

The Economics of War

As artillery thunders across Ukraine, drones stalk the skies above Gaza, and tensions simmer from East Asia to the Sahel, a different kind of...

30.06.2025 3

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Sajid Salamat

From Battlefield to Newsfeed

In the digital age of diplomacy, the battlefield is no longer confined to deserts and skies, it also unfolds across the digital spaces. During the...

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Sajid Salamat