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What happens when you let women live alone? Pakistan needs to find out

Pakistan’s prolonged economic downturn is not driven by policy failures alone — it is also fuelled by the systematic underutilisation of its most...

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Shanze Hasan

From fake profiles to deepfake porn: The war Pakistani women cannot win alone

Shukria Ismail, a young woman from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s conservative Kurram district, faced an uphill battle convincing her family to let her...

10.12.2025 2

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Sarah B. Haider

The open manhole that laid bare Karachi’s systemic rot

“The echo of the mother’s screams still rings in my ears,” said a cop who was on duty near Karachi’s Nipa Chowrangi on the fateful night of...

09.12.2025 9

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Muzhira Amin

Going back in time on the banks of the Indus

The journey began the moment we veered onto the newly built Hakla-D.I. Khan Motorway, leaving Islamabad for a landscape that felt almost...

05.12.2025 2

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Omar Mukhtar Khan

The rise and ruin of Keti Bunder

“Ye teesra sheher hai (This is the third city),” Haji Umer Sholani Baloch quipped, watching the Indus’ floodwaters push past Kotri barrage and...

03.12.2025 3

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Mohammad Hussain Khan