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Explained: Why is everyone so mad about Karachi province?

Explained: Why is everyone so mad about Karachi province?
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Dr Asma Faiz

The DNA detectives are changing the game for insect research in Pakistan

The DNA detectives are changing the game for insect research in Pakistan

Pakistan’s insect world is still full of mysteries and researchers are helping uncover what the naked eye cannot.

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Muhammad Muneeb

Explainer: Climate finance is great but how do you get it?

Explainer: Climate finance is great but how do you get it?
07.09.2026 30

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Farhad Ullah

Clean air is an economic choice Pakistan can no longer postpone

Clean air is an economic choice Pakistan can no longer postpone
07.09.2026 40

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Asim Jaffryprofessor Anthony S. Wexlerhuma Iqbal

Three women, one name, and the label that wouldn't come off

Three women, one name, and the label that wouldn't come off
03.09.2026 40

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Mannan Samad

Playing Russian roulette with Pakistani rain

01.09.2026 30

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Aniqa Atiq Khan

Punjab wants faceless secret trials for terrorism cases

30.08.2026 20

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Ahmer Rasheed Bhatti

They told me to remove my uterus. I refused.

28.08.2026 30

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Haleema Younus

Pakistan's amateur radios are tuned in for the apocalypse

26.08.2026 30

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Farhan Afsar

To be a Karachi Bugti who yearns for watan and dry wood

25.08.2026 30

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Zareef Rind

Amin Mughal taught Pakistan’s Left and media to disagree without falling apart

24.08.2026 20

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Ikram Ul Haq

Reading Thucydides in the wolf world

22.08.2026 60

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Ejaz Haider

Product Overhang: The gap Sualeh Asif and Cursor found in AI

20.08.2026 40

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Dr Shafiullah Qureshi

No restrictions: The gap Pakistani founders saw in AI

As Cursor's cofounders showed, AI can already do things that no one has built a product around yet.

20.08.2026 30

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Dr Shafiullah Qureshi

The inclusive resettlement of ML-1 clears the track of living obstacles

18.08.2026 30

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Muhammed Toheed

The Gilgit-Baltistan village where no one says climate change but everyone talks about the weather

18.08.2026 30

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Mehnaz Parveen

What nine years of Pakistan civil awards look like when you turn them into data

17.08.2026 60

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Zehra Farooq

Explained: The Makkah Pact, a safety net with no strings attached

15.08.2026 70

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Muhammad Faisal

Explained: The Mecca Pact, a safety net with no strings attached

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan protect vital trade routes from the Arabian Sea to the Red Sea.

14.08.2026 40

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Muhammad Faisal

The geopolitics behind Pakistan’s $10 billion US request

13.08.2026 40

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Shuyan Huang

PM takes notice of future after ordering it cancelled

12.08.2026 40

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Puruesh Chaudhary

HEC’s new rules on student AI use won't work

11.08.2026 30

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Dr Shafiullah Qureshi

Mir Raza’s grave is not a silent one

10.08.2026 40

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Hira Haroon Karim

Explainer: Why jobseekers are protesting results of a major civil service exam

08.08.2026 40

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Yumna Khanzareef Rind

Raising Elia in a neurotypical world

07.08.2026 50

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Ambreen Sardar

The coffins come free here with the story

04.08.2026 50

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Bismillah Jan

28 fatwas and a minivan to uncover hidden child deaths

03.08.2026 50

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Yumna Khan

Let’s stalk the pink chicks of Muzaffargarh

30.07.2026 40

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Umer Waqas

Is that a biscuit wrapper you’re breathing?

28.07.2026 40

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Zil E Huma

Why regime change won't save free speech in Pakistan

28.07.2026 70

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Hassan Abdullah Niazi

I’m on an admissions committee and universities need to talk about this

27.07.2026 50

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Dr Sumera Rashid

Iran’s post-war gamble on the young

22.07.2026 70

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Owais Tohid

O, the passions of oily Turkish men

18.07.2026 50

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Fatima Rehman

Pakistan publishes its agriculture census, revealing the federation beneath our fields

16.07.2026 40

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Bilal Gilani

Why there is no lawyers’ movement in Pakistan today

14.07.2026 80

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Athar Minallah

The agent that infiltrated Pakistan’s red hot chilli peppers

10.07.2026 50

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Muzhira Amin

How to freeze your eggs in Pakistan

06.07.2026 60

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Aniqa Atiq Khan

Dunki 2.0 goes Crypto: hawala in Pakistan's $300 million smuggling machine

02.07.2026 80

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Sarah B. Haiderzaheer Abbas Sial

The Punjab government can cancel you with this law

27.06.2026 80

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Ali Javed Darugar

The Punjab government goes full Goonda

New law called Punjab’s Control of Habitual Offenders and Anti-Social Behaviour Bill 2026. Enough said.

27.06.2026 150

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Ali Javed

Pakistan’s legal system isn’t built for children. This clinic is trying to change that

25.06.2026 70

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Yumna Khan

Balochistan just benched its best team

24.06.2026 50

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Zareef Rind

51 degrees and counting: Surviving heat in Jacobabad

22.06.2026 70

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Soha Macktoommuhammed Toheed

The leopard princess of Islamabad

19.06.2026 70

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Farhan Afsar

Scooty for the beti and EV for the biwi

17.06.2026 50

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Zahra Naeemlaiba Nayyab

Pakistan’s quarter-century Ponzi scheme, and the exit that has no architecture

15.06.2026 70

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Ali Hasanain

Budgeting on hope

13.06.2026 150

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Khurram Husain

How Pakistan stabilised its way into poverty in 21 graphs

12.06.2026 60

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Ali Hasanain

Pakistan's young population could power its economy. The Economic Survey shows why it won't

12.06.2026 90

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Durre Nayab

Pakistan passed at diplomacy, let’s get the degrees rolling now

11.06.2026 70

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Magnus Marsden