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EVERY year, rabies, the deadliest zoonotic disease, kills more than 59,000 people worldwide. In Pakistan, it is one...
CLIMATE Minister Musadik Malik’s warning against what he described as “water aggression” indicates ...
Iran, too, must engage seriously and provide credible assurances about its nuclear programme if it wants sanctions relief and a more stable...
Tech workers are the worst positioned to absorb the AI shock.
It seems that a decision has been taken to rid Islamabad of its poor.
Ultimately, an Islamic republic’s legitimacy doesn’t rest merely on constitutional titles or religious slogans.
Students are addicted to AI not because they want to cheat, but because they’re terrified of looking stupid or inadequate.
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Infrastructural changes aren’t enough.
We need a coherent long-term cotton strategy or else, Pakistan might lose a key pillar of its export economy.
Pakistan celebrates Eid while grappling with economic strain that continues to weigh heavily on ordinary households.
The attempt to connect the Iran conflict with the Abraham Accords makes little sense.
Cuba’s status as the next target remains intact.
Infrastructural changes aren’t enough.
The effectiveness and legitimacy of IMF conditionality deserve careful scrutiny.
Trump’s ever-shifting stance has clouded the prospects of a peace deal in the near future.
THE testimonies that have emerged from international activists, who were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla, paint a...
AN array of investment MoUs valued at $7bn signed during Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s China visit signifies...
The state keeps reiterating the role of hostile foreign actors in fomenting unrest, yet seems to be short on ideas on how to prevent the ingress of...
Matters will only improve if Pakistan exits the IWT.
Most of our amendments have benefited elites.
Since India cannot respond to China the way it does to South Asian irritants, it answers the description of a short-sighted bully.
Have the scriptwriters forgotten to write a happy ending for the ordinary people?
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PAKISTAN’S courts are quick to remind the public that justice takes time. Increasingly, however, it is the conduct...
THE latest State Bank report documenting recurring climatic disasters in Pakistan during the period between 2000 and...
THE question should never be about who is at the receiving end at any given point in time: an assault on an...
Rising energy costs reach households from two directions.
Gender inclusion should be prioritised in CPEC projects.
Any serious and sustained interrogation of the Pakistani state’s cultural politics would inevitably bring the tension between projected identity and...
Raising the voting age would disenfranchise 22 million young Pakistanis and further alienate Gen Z.
It’s clear that India doesn’t want peace with Pakistan.
ORGAN brokers have for too long preyed on desperation to rake it in. The odious trade — among the most harmful...
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s trip to China presents an opportunity to rebalance Pakistan’s economic...
Pakistan deserves credit for helping preserve diplomatic space, but also must avoid appearing aligned with coercive pressure from any side.
It’s clear that India doesn’t want peace with Pakistan.
Whose histories, whose plurality, do we consider worth addressing?
A consolidated cost estimate of the harm caused by organised crime is essential for designing national strategies.
China’s rise has transformed the nature of the Sino-Pak partnership.
Mirchawala’s ACCA students can now earn a globally recognised online Bachelor’s degree from the University of Greenwich after completing 9 ACCA...
IT is going from bad to worse for Shan Masood and Pakistan. It is now seven successive Test defeats away from home;...
IN Punjab, an encounter with the law can quickly turn deadly. Encouraged by a culture of ‘shoot first, ask...
The stabilisation achieved through painful growth compression steps could have been used as a platform for structural reforms.
Tehran sees US demands as detached from realities.
Opportunities must yield longer periods of sunshine.
The very conditions that would make an SME bankable are those that it cannot afford to meet — precisely because it is not bankable.
To build climate resilience, reducing vulnerability must form the core of our development agenda.
Technology tends to alter the nature of specific work rather than completely replace it.
Should school-leaving exams be the only way to judge who ought to continue their education?
FOR many communities in northern Pakistan, the sound of heavy rain now carries a different meaning. It is no longer...