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Could Trump pull a Venezuela on Iran?

For Komeil Soheili, an Iranian filmmaker, the latest protests in the Islamic Republic did not come as a surprise. “People are exhausted after the...

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Sidrah Roghay

Consent on trial: How Pakistan’s courts are failing rape survivors

As 2026 dawns, women in Pakistan are left grappling with a stark reality: rape and marital rape continue to be misinterpreted by judges in the...

10.01.2026 1

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Zofeen T. Ebrahim

How Ibne Safi taught an entire generation to read

As reading shifts from shared print cultures to fragmented digital feeds, what happens to the common habits that once anchored public life?

08.01.2026 2

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Shuyan Huang

’We did this incredible thing’: Trump’s capture of Maduro and the ‘complexities’ of international law

It shouldn’t be shocking and yet it still is. Images of the leader of a sovereign, oil-rich nation humiliated and handcuffed by the world’s...

06.01.2026 1

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Ayesha Malik

The year the judiciary lost everything

On March 11, 1913, a rising barrister was quizzed on the judiciary by our British overlords. M. A. Jinnah was 36 years old; his interrogator was...

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Asad Rahim Khan Hassan Abdullah Niazi