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The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, signed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, states that "an armed attack on any one of the three states...
The complexity of terrorism primarily pivots around four important elements. First, the domestic conditions produce and nurture extremist ideas which...
Pakistan has spent decades debating how to make government more responsive to citizens, a debate that has gained renewed attention with recent calls...
Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it: Frantz Fanon In 399 BC Athens was a fragile,...
The consequences of a worsening economy and a gradually deteriorating country are not merely fiscal. When in conversation about how Pakistan's...
The government is growing increasingly concerned about the state of the economy due to the impact of the US-Iran war and the stress it is placing on...
Judicial relief to former Prime Minister Imran Khan is overdue. The government has unnecessarily transgressed by keeping the PTI founder in solitary...
E-Bikes will pose a safety risk faster than they can help us get a clean environment in the absence of regulations. Electric bikes are becoming a...
The planet that we live on used to be considered infinite a long time ago. The flat earthers back in the day believed that the earth was flat and...
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye signed their first trilateral defence pact – Makkah Joint Defence Agreement – during a summit in Makkah, the...
In an unprecedented way, Pakistan has not let hope down in trying to create space for peace between Iran and the United States. At a moment when the...
The former strongman of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, stands condemned as he was sentenced to death in absentia. The Alawite dynasty scion who ruled Syria...
There is something deeply troubling about a development programme designed to help some of Balochistan's poorest flood victims becoming the...
A disconcerting amount of packaged kitchen staples fail to meet national quality standards. About 48% of all ghee samples analysed by the Ministry of...
Standing under the blazing summer sun, clad in the most uncomfortable attire – the school uniform – reciting the National Anthem, followed by the...
Pakistan's education crisis is not simply a crisis of outdated textbooks. It is a crisis of an outdated educational philosophy. While the world...
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. - John Maynard Keynes Pakistan is once again engaged in an...
Magnifica Humanitas is receiving extensive praise internationally for its contemplation of the new moral and social implications of artificial...
The death of Mir Raza, the owner of a Karachi-based dessert chain, has now taken a new turn. A kidnapping case that briefly drifted toward a theory of...
Pakistan continues to receive praise from the international community for emerging as a central intermediary in the US-Iran war. Its diplomacy and...
Benjamin Netanyahu is undeniably a troublemaker who cannot be relied upon to make peace. He stands accused of war crimes in Gaza - where the ICJ ruled...
At an Islamabad business summit, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi declared that Pakistan's governance system had "collapsed" and demanded...
I attended a conference last week that focuses on how environmental damage drives drug resistant infections. Just as I was inspired by colleagues from...
The ubiquitous growth of new highways all over the world is perceived as a symbol of economic success. The overarching policy belief that new roads...
In the coming weeks, universities across Pakistan will welcome a new cohort of undergraduates, as they do every August and September. Banners will go...
The security landscape of the Muslim world may be entering a new phase. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye have signed the Makkah Joint Defence...
We are in dire need of genuine public intellectuals who would shape public opinion and steer it towards the truth. They would create space for...
Several years ago, when I was the Director of International Relations Department, I was asked by Tom Claussen, then the President of the World Bank,...
The US objective of delivering a death blow to Iran has proved far more difficult to achieve than initially envisaged. Despite the destruction...
The death of a child is one of the greatest tragedies a nation can bear. But if that death were preventable, it asks pointed questions and demands...
US President Donald Trump signed two new executive orders in yet another attempt to feed his obsession with ending birthright citizenship. This comes...
The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement testifies to the fact that Pakistan has emerged as a net-security provider in the region. It is a historic...
"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence." What if George Orwell had foreseen today's Pakistan? How...
Pakistan's solar debate often gets reduced to immediate questions: what rate will exported units get? Will net billing hurt payback? And, are...
Pakistan's solar debate often gets reduced to immediate questions: what rate will exported units get? Will net billing hurt payback? And, are...
The trilateral defence pact signed between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey on Friday is the culmination of a series of events that have led to...
Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi's recent remarks - that the current political system has collapsed and that politics is increasingly being...
The tripartite defence agreement signed in Makkah between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye is epoch-making in essence. It is premised on the...
HIV outbreaks in hospitals are almost always the result of sheer medical negligence and when such negligence is exercised against children - one of...
At least 1,914 cases of child abuse were reported across the country during the first six months of 2026 alone, a staggering number that should be...
Pakistan's ambition to serve as the gateway between South Asia and Central Asia has always been at the heart of its Afghanistan policy. The...
Every morning, Pakistan's universities come alive. Lecture halls fill with students, laboratories open, committees convene, files move from one...
Some years ago, while serving as a departmental students' advisor, I was visited by a group of disappointed students with a complaint that a...
The question of new provinces is back in the news, and it deserves a fair hearing. But almost everything we know about smaller provinces in Pakistan...
After three long years, the Pakistan cricket team finally outplayed an opponent in an away test match. The run of eight tests without a win began...
Pakistan's struggle against terrorism has often been narrated through the lens of military operations, and rightly so. The Pakistan Army has...
The incarceration of Imran Khan, in defiance of the jail manual, is now becoming a source of irritation and embarrassment. The former PM's sons,...
Barely a week after the recovery of the final bodies from the Sorange coal mine near Quetta, Pakistan's latest mining disaster is already fading...
Lahore, my wounded city, How you once wore the monsoon like a crown - draped in silver rain, alive with laughter, perfumed by eucalyptus. But now,...
There is a particular Pakistani ritual that outsiders struggle to understand. A senior official stands at a podium in front of the very people who...
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