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Nil-income dilemma

Pakistan's tax collection machinery is infected with lacunas of filers and non-filers, coupled with a regressive system that is highly inequitable...

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Editorial

Politics of fear and US war on Muslim civic life

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that his administration would designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a "foreign...

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Faisal Kutty

Education - opening doors

Pakistan's education system has long suffered from a chronic absence of structured career counselling, forcing students to make life-altering...

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Editorial

China turning towards Europe

One of the themes I have explored in the essays written for this newspaper is the impact on Pakistan of the massive changes occurring in the global...

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Shahid Javed Burki

Light amongst us

In a world that may seem to be shaped and coloured by violence, sometimes the moral clarity and hope come not from those who are in front of the...

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Muhammad Hamid Zaman

National Games

As the 35th National Games wrapped up in Karachi on Saturday, the Pakistan Army once again reminded everyone why it is the powerhouse of national...

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Editorial

The untold story of Faiz

One fine Islamabad afternoon in the spring of 2021, I received a call from a source. He said he needed to see me urgently. I had prior commitments,...

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Kamran Yousaf

Let us practise Mamdaniesque politics

Zohran Mamdani, rising as the first Muslim and South Asian mayor in the city of New York, created the biggest political upset in American history....

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Eesha Afzal

The prisoner's gambit

More than two years into his imprisonment, Imran Khan still refuses to recede into the background of Pakistan's political memory. The rallies have...

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Syed Jalal Hussain

Iqbal Rabbani's blood-stained shirt

December 16 - a day forever etched in the collective consciousness as a moment of profound national rupture. Yet, for countless families,...

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Shazia Tasneem Farooqi

Home ecology in winter

Reading the Sui Northern Gas Company's schedule of piped gas supply for domestic users from December to February in three time slots — 5.30 am to...

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M Nadeem Nadir

COP30: high hopes, limited progress in Belém

For the first time in the history of collective action against climate change, hopes were unusually high. People felt optimistic that global...

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Mirza Mujtaba Baig

Corruption concerns

Despite progress in some areas, corruption remains a massive problem for the government and the country in general. At the same time, the public...

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Editorial

The crypto path

Pakistan has tapped into the next-generation door of financing by throwing open vistas of cooperation in cryptocurrency. The MoU signed with...

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Editorial

Slow death

While the average life expectancy rate in South Asia hovers between 70-72, with some countries like Sri Lanka even nearing the 80-mark, Pakistan...

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Editorial

Conviction of former DG ISI: political impact

A Field General Court Martial has convicted Lt Gen Faiz Hameed (Retd) on multiple charges, including political interference, violation of the...

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Mohammad Ali Ehsan

DNA ruling

The Supreme Court's unequivocal rejection of compulsory DNA testing without consent is a welcome assertion of constitutional restraint; it should...

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Editorial

IMF conditionalities

The recent approval of $1.2 billion in IMF funding provides some vindication for the government, as it proves that the country is moving in the...

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Editorial

Dear saviours!

A secular, democratic republic. A nation of resilience and a secret of the divine. An Islamic welfare state and chandelier of the Muslim Ummah. The...

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Ali Hassan Bangwar

Together culturally, divorced politically

Naseer Turabi was one of my mentors, and I had the privilege of learning the intricacies of literature from him. Jaun Elia, Obaidullah Aleem,...

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Ishtiaq Ali Mehkri

After Faiz

All eyes are on Imran Khan. It is quite remarkable how, whenever he has a chance, Khan makes everything about himself. It is even more remarkable...

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Fahd Husain

Silent crisis

Pakistan is in the middle of a quiet mental health crisis, with experts estimating that one-third of the population has some psychological...

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Editorial

Fortress under invisible assault

Pakistan today is choking not only under an incalculable policy lapse (read: betrayal) but also facing a multi-pronged economic warfare that many...

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Imtiaz Gul

Gesture of intent?

In a development that has stirred cautious interest in regional capitals, more than 1,000 Afghan clerics have issued what is, for all practical...

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Editorial

A strategic headway

Pakistan and the US have taken a break from their transitional relationship phase. They are now cementing ties with a broader vision by focusing on...

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Editorial

Libraries versus AI

Academic excellence was never about shortcuts; it was about the quiet labour of research. Scholars who spent long hours tracing ideas through books...

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Saira Samo

Fields of disillusionment

"Nit naye naqsh banatay ho, mita daitay ho, Jaanay kis jurm-e-tamanna ki saza detay ho. Kabhi kankar ko bana detay ho heeray ki kani, Kabhi heeron...

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Farrukh Khan Pitafi

A 2-day conference

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, they first make them arrange a two-day conference", is what the Greek tragedian, Euripides, would have said, had...

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Naeem Sadiq