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The Girl Who Reached the Porch: The Assignment Was Too Small for the Night

The Girl Who Reached the Porch: The Assignment Was Too Small for the Night

A girl walks alone at night to a house with Greek letters on the door because she thinks a friend is inside. That is where I keep stopping. Not at the...

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Sameena Faisal Khan

The Verdict Has Not Changed: When a Woman’s No Is Still Negotiable

The Verdict Has Not Changed: When a Woman’s No Is Still Negotiable

For most of human history a woman was not a person under the law of her own house. She was an asset with a pulse-entered in a father’s ledger,...

30.09.2026 30

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Sameena Faisal Khan

Innocent Before the Inquiry Began

Innocent Before the Inquiry Began

            Innocent Before the Inquiry Began Be careful, we tell our daughters. Get educated. Serve your country. Live inside the fence the...

30.09.2026 40

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Sameena Faisal Khan

The Locks Failed. The Speed Limit Is the Business Model

How three years of sandbox failures became this month’s AI doom cycle — and why the call to “pace the frontier” looks less like a safety brake...

20.09.2026 30

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Patience Quill

When Different Voices Sit at the Same Table

Some people in that room wanted unity. A single story they could take home and feel good about. I understand that. But unity that requires silence is...

20.09.2026 30

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Sameena Faisal Khan

The Khawarij We Became

A few days ago, pictures of six tied-up, half-naked bodies along a roadside in Balochistan circulated on social media, bringing the terms fitna...

20.09.2026 30

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Zoobia W Chaudhry

When Medicine Falls Silent: Moral Crisis from Gaza to Pakistan

In medicine, silence is never neutral—it has consequences. Doctors exist on the side of life, against death and suffering; that is the premise our...

16.09.2026 30

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Dr. Zoobia Chaudhry

The World’s Convenient Blindness to Pakistan’s Military State

In November 2024, Pakistani security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of unarmed supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan as they...

16.09.2026 40

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Patience Quill

The Dark Side Of Remittances

Every year, millions of Pakistanis working in the Gulf, Europe, and North America send part of their wages home. A labourer in Dubai paying for his...

16.09.2026 40

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Dr Mazhar Mughal

Pakistan’s Authoritarian Trajectory: Human Rights Violations and International Silence

For decades, Pakistan has remained among the lowest-ranked countries in global assessments of human rights, reflecting persistent and systemic...

16.09.2026 40

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Dr Seema Khan

What El-Sayed’s Win Means for Muslim America — and for the Pakistani American Diaspora

On Wednesday, Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary by about a single percentage point, beating Congresswoman Haley Stevens after...

16.09.2026 30

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Zoobia W Chaudhry

My Friend Was Wrong About Chinese Cars. So Is Most of the West.

About ten years ago, I made a bet with a friend. He is one of the most reasonable men I know: generous in argument, intellectually honest, and, like...

16.09.2026 50

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News Desk

The Mecca Joint Defence Pact is Here, But Does Anyone Remember CENTO?

Three Muslim powers converged in the heart of Islam, Mecca, to sign a trilateral Mecca Joint Defence Agreement that sent shockwaves across the world....

16.09.2026 40

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Koonj Altaf

The Psychology of Collective Trauma and Institutional Betrayal in Pakistan

Grief, Numbness, and the Asymmetry of Risk On August 26, 2026, a fire tore through the nursery of Pakistan’s largest government hospital, in the...

16.09.2026 30

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Zoobia W Chaudhry

When System Fails, Generations Pay-Long Shadow of Corruption & Systemic Breakdown

For too long, Pakistan’s corruption discourse is treated as a moral nuisance or as the theft of public money rather than an economic and...

16.09.2026 40

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Muneeb Imran Shaikh

From Doctrine of Necessity to Constitutional Engineering: How Pakistan’s Military Dictators Destroyed Its Courts

From a 1958 ruling that blessed a coup after the fact to a 2025 amendment that pre-clears the next one, Pakistan’s courts haven’t resisted...

16.09.2026 40

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Zoobia W Chaudhry

The Half-Baked Five-Star Office: Why Pakistan’s New CDF Post Is a Constitutional Time Bomb

Pakistan is on tenterhooks regarding the issuance of the notification appointing FM Asim Munir as the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF), a position...

03.12.2025 100

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Zubair Gilani

Iran Re-Edits Its Revolution

It was a gray afternoon in Tehran when a new mural appeared near Darvazeh Dolat, a crowded crossroads where the metro empties streams of commuters...

02.12.2025 100

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Fatemeh Aman

Why Iran Missed Out on Central Asian Connectivity

For most of the past three decades, Iran assumed that its geographic position would eventually draw Central Asia southward. The argument was simple....

28.11.2025 100

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Fatemeh Aman

Pakistan’s Biggest Macro Constraint Is Corruption: The IMF Finally Says the Quiet Part Loud—And Then Does Little to Stop It!

On November 19, 2025, the Ministry of Finance dutifully uploaded the IMF’s Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA) for Pakistan. The...

26.11.2025 100

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Javed Hassan

Afghanistan’s Water Power: Between Iran and Pakistan

Afghanistan is often described as landlocked, but in hydrological terms, it is upstream of two major states. Its rivers descend toward Pakistan in...

23.11.2025 150

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Fatemeh Aman

Zionism vs Global South: The New World War

The current Gaza crisis has violently stripped away the carefully crafted veneer around Zionism, revealing its true essence—brutal, racist,...

23.11.2025 100

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Orhan Khan

From Samarkand to Washington: Central Asia’s Strategic Rise in a Competing World

Ten years ago in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the C5 1 format was launched—an ambitious diplomatic initiative linking the five Central Asian republics...

21.11.2025 100

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News Desk

A Republic of Relatives: Why Iran’s Rulers Still Stand

In October 2025, a leaked video of a lavish Tehran wedding, showing the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, former secretary of the Supreme National Security...

21.11.2025 100

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Fatemeh Aman

The Constitutional Coup: How Pakistan’s 27th Amendment Engineers a New State

A specter of profound and perilous change haunts Pakistan’s military and political landscape, embodied in the Constitution 27th Amendment...

12.11.2025 250

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Asad Faizi

The AI Boom—And the Bubble Everyone Is Pretending Isn’t There

We are living through a market moment built on a dazzling idea: that artificial intelligence (AI) will remake business, lift productivity, and deliver...

11.11.2025 150

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Patience Quill

The Day the Constitution Died: How Pakistan’s Politicians Turned Revenge into Law

Pakistan stands on the brink of what senior jurists call the slaughter of the Constitution, a constitutional coup dressed in legalese. The so-called...

11.11.2025 150

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Barrister Shahzad Akbar

The Constitutional Martial Law: Pakistan’s Descent into Legalized Authoritarianism

Since the regime change of April 2022, Pakistan has been undergoing a transformation more subtle — and more dangerous — than any past martial law....

07.11.2025 100

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Orhan Khan

From Queens to Khyber: The Rise of a New Global South Leadership

In a world increasingly polarized by power, privilege, and propaganda, two young political figures—Zohran Mamdani in the United States and Suhail...

31.10.2025 100

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Orhan Khan

Maryam Nawaz and the Politics of Fabricated Realities

If the art of deception ever became an Olympic sport, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s self-styled “Mother of Punjab”, would bring home gold...

25.10.2025 100

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Barrister Shahzad Akbar

Trump, Tel Aviv, and Rawalpindi: The Generals’ Desperate Gamble to Stop Imran Khan

In Pakistan today, the country’s powerful generals have turned politics into a zero-sum game — a battle for survival in which the rise of Imran...

23.10.2025 150

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Orhan Khan

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Hinge: When Pakistan’s Story Turned

What’s happening in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa doesn’t feel like routine politics; it feels like a hinge in history. An ordinary PTI worker from a poor...

22.10.2025 100

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Asad Faizi

When the State Bombs Its Own People: Gandapur’s Evasion of Duty Must End

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has offered a deeply troubling defence of recent aerial bombardments and heavy-artillery...

11.10.2025 100

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Barrister Shahzad Akbar

Trump-Netanyahu Peace Proposal is a Trap? Doomed to Fail?

The sobering reality is that despite the optimism surrounding recent diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, the Trump administration’s proposed...

04.10.2025 300

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Asad Faizi

India’s Shekhar Gupta is Wrong: No! Pakistani DNA is Not Designed for Military Rule

The human spirit has always strained toward freedom, across time and borders. To claim otherwise, to say any people are preordained for autocracy or...

01.10.2025 100

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Miyamoto Musashi

Nepal’s Gen Z Won A Battle but Real War Lies Ahead?

The September 2025 protests in Nepal will be remembered for their intensity and their outcome. Generation Z, the country’s restless youth, poured...

30.09.2025 100

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Eman Fatima Akhlaq

Revitalizing UNAMA: Practical Steps for an Afghan Mission

Co-authored by Omar Samad (Amb.), Dr. Ahmad Wais WARDAK, and Dr. Mujib Abid The United Nations Security Council convened last week to assess the...

30.09.2025 100

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Mujib Abid