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Diminishing US Influence in the Middle East

Total trade between the United States and the Middle East amounts to approximately USD 218 billion. As a result, many Middle Eastern countries believe...

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Staff Report

The Poorer Punjab, the Quieter Crisis

The Poorer Punjab, the Quieter Crisis

Before they commit their money and labour to another crop, the government should answer a question left unsettled by the last harvest: will the...

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Mohsin Leghari

Degrees Without Depth: Why Pakistan’s Universities Are Producing Rote-Learners, Not Thinkers

Degrees Without Depth: Why Pakistan’s Universities Are Producing Rote-Learners, Not Thinkers

The biggest tragedy of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) is the selection of its Chairman, an office that has historically been handed...

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Musa Arshad Abbasi

As Middle East Flames Threaten Our Survival, the Planning Commission Stays Stone-Deaf: The World Bank Sounded the Alarm, Yet Pakistan Buried Its Own Fuel

As Middle East Flames Threaten Our Survival, the Planning Commission Stays Stone-Deaf: The World Bank Sounded the Alarm, Yet Pakistan Buried Its Own Fuel

Pakistan’s salvation will not come from foreign handouts, elite degrees without conscience, or empty ministerial eloquence; it will be forged in the...

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Arshad H Abbasi

Why Pakistan Cannot Borrow Its Way to Prosperity, and What It Could Build Instead (Part 2)

Why Pakistan Cannot Borrow Its Way to Prosperity, and What It Could Build Instead (Part 2)

A kiln is therefore the natural place to prove that a wage floor can work, long before anyone attempts to police the millions of households and...

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Barbara Butler

Beyond Politics: Building a Bankable Rail Corridor from Tashkent to the Arabian Sea

On 17 July 2025, in Kabul, the transport ministers of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan signed a framework agreement to prepare a feasibility study...

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Ghulam Mustafa

A clinic for the people

A clinic for the people

The question is rarely “what is wrong with me?” It is “can we afford to find out?”.  Against this backdrop, I recently took my house help to...

thursday 10

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Syeda Salma Tahir

The Failure of Traffic Signal Enforcement in Lahore

The Failure of Traffic Signal Enforcement in Lahore

At major intersections across the city, drivers frequently ignore red lights, stop beyond designated lines, or force their way through intersections...

thursday 10

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Staff Report

Export credit insurance to help Pakistani SMEs expand global markets

Export credit insurance to help Pakistani SMEs expand global markets

SEO description: Pakistan’s new export credit insurance risk-sharing pool aims to protect SME exporters against covered non-payment risks, improve...

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Muhammad Zahid Rifat

US midterms put Trump’s Iran war and Pakistan’s mediation under pressure

Mr Trump has ruled out fresh attacks on Iran before the vote, although CBS reported on October 8 that The Atlantic had him weighing a pre-election...

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Nida Amir Afridi

Maulana’s Remarks on Army & Martyrs Stir Public Anger

Maulana’s Remarks on Army & Martyrs Stir Public Anger

They do not want political leaders to create controversies about the army and martyrs. It shows that the army and martyrs are not just a political...

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Abdul Basit

Breast Cancer Awareness: Early Detection Saves Lives

Breast Cancer Awareness: Early Detection Saves Lives

Fear of social judgment, misconceptions about cancer, lack of family support, and concerns about privacy can discourage women from seeking medical...

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Staff Report

Fiscal justice beyond the tax trap—IV Zakat & Ushr rooted in public trust

Fiscal justice beyond the tax trap—IV Zakat & Ushr rooted in public trust

Punjab’s official account describes compulsory collection on specified scheduled assets; the State Bank’s 2026 circular separately addresses...

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

The Tidal Wave of Inflation in Pakistan: How Do the Poor Survive?

The Tidal Wave of Inflation in Pakistan: How Do the Poor Survive?

Financial assistance, subsidised essential food items, and support for vulnerable families can help prevent temporary economic shocks from becoming...

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Shoukat Lohar

How ‘unrestricted warfare’ is reshaping our daily lives

A foothold in a water utility or a power network is a switch that someone else can flip in a crisis, with panic as the intended result, and no army...

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Nida Amir Afridi

Grow First, Tax Fairly

Grow First, Tax Fairly

The Pakistan Economic Survey 2025–26 reported Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) tax collection of Rs11.74 trillion in FY2024–25, equivalent to...

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Sadiq Hussain

The pain of rising prices

The question is why people in other cities, including London and Lahore, so often stop at talking. Living between London and Lahore has made me think...

21.10.2026 10

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Ali Sajjad

Fiscal justice beyond the tax trap—III What exactly should we tax?

Fiscal justice beyond the tax trap—III What exactly should we tax?

Guvenen and co-authors examine how wealth taxation can shift burdens towards less productive capital holders while improving the position of more...

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Cheap Drones, Jammed Signals, and AI-Driven Missiles: Unfiltered Lessons from Ukraine, Iran, and the Defence of Pakistan

Without naming any adversary, four capability classes would hurt any state in our region most: mass-produced one-way attack drones; stand-off glide...

21.10.2026 10

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Ghulam Mustafa

KARACHI’S UNCOVERED GARBAGE TRUCKS ARE GARBAGE COLLECTION OR ITS REDISTRIBUTION? A SERIOUS MOVING THREAT TO KARACHI’S PUBLIC HEALTH

KARACHI’S UNCOVERED GARBAGE TRUCKS ARE GARBAGE COLLECTION OR ITS REDISTRIBUTION? A SERIOUS MOVING THREAT TO KARACHI’S PUBLIC HEALTH

Amid these difficulties, another disturbing situation deserves serious public attention: the transportation of municipal garbage through the city’s...

21.10.2026 10

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Dr. Abdul Mateen Sheikh

Poetry, Resistance and Humanity—V When the Poor Asked Who Was Free

Poetry, Resistance and Humanity—V When the Poor Asked Who Was Free

The refusal mattered as much as the poem: patronage could not purchase the poet’s tongue.4 On the Indian side, Sant Ram Udasi brought the same test...

21.10.2026 10

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Save the children

Save the children

The concept of Good Touch, Bad Touch (GTBT) enables children to understand that their bodies belong to them and that they have the right to refuse any...

21.10.2026 9

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Mujeeb Ali Samo

The Nikahnama and the Promise of Women’s Rights

Read alongside the applicable principles of Muslim personal law and the constitutional guarantees of dignity and equality, it raises a fundamental...

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Staff Report

France and the Enduring Politics of Protest

France and the Enduring Politics of Protest

The possibility of geopolitical pressure deserves scrutiny, but it must be examined alongside the economic, social and political factors that can...

20.10.2026 20

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Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal

Chairman CDA Islamabad Holds Key Meeting with Investors and Developers to Upgrade Hospitality Sector Ahead of SCO Summit 2027

Chairman CDA Islamabad Holds Key Meeting with Investors and Developers to Upgrade Hospitality Sector Ahead of SCO Summit 2027

ISLAMABAD : Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Sohail Ashraf, held an important meeting with leading...

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Asad Kharal

In a Hurry to be Nowhere: A Society’s relationship with the Law

Someone jumps a queue, another blocks an intersection because he cannot bear to wait for the traffic ahead to clear, and a horn is answered not with...

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Staff Report

Why Is Mental Health Not Our Priority?

Why Is Mental Health Not Our Priority?

Spirituality, family support, and personal resilience can provide comfort to many people; however, they should not be used to shame anyone or replace...

20.10.2026 20

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Shoukat Lohar

Stanley Kubrick Spent a Career Dissecting Humanity. His Final Word Was “Fuck.”

Summary: Stanley Kubrick spent his career examining human beings inside systems of control: technology, violence, military institutions, social...

20.10.2026 20

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Lexx Che

Why Pakistan Cannot Borrow Its Way to Prosperity, and What It Could Build Instead

To see that this arrangement is a choice and not a law of nature, it helps to look at a place that made the opposite choice, and then paid for...

20.10.2026 10

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Staff Report