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India, Pakistan — redefining deterrence

'Deterrence' in military parlance is, simply put, to 'deter' a potential adversary of the outsized consequences and disproportionate response to any...

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Inam Ul Haque

Justice for Noor Mukadam

The family of Noor Mukadam may finally see justice served, as her killer has run out of legal avenues to delay his death sentence. The Supreme...

yesterday 20

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Editorial

The Bin Laden manhunt on Netflix

Many movies, shows and books exist about the circumstances surrounding the Bin Laden killing in Abbottabad, Pakistan. As with any other major...

yesterday 30

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Imran Jan

Crime against innocence

At least six lives, including those of three innocent children, were snatched in a harrowing act of terrorism on Wednesday morning in Khuzdar...

yesterday 40

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Editorial

India's foreign policy — optics, opportunism and scapegoating

As India stumbled to control the global narrative, the world witnessed a spectacle not of strategy, but of survival. In the aftermath of the...

yesterday 40

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Durdana Najam

War by water

If rivers could talk, the Indus would not whisper; it would thunder. Not in rage, but sorrow for being mislabeled, mistreated, and now almost...

yesterday 50

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Syeda Zahra Shah Subzwari

Field Marshal Asim Munir

Army Chief Gen Asim Munir is now a Field Marshal. While Pakistan's second Field Marshal, Asim Munir is the only one who has been awarded with the...

yesterday 30

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Editorial

Melting ice

Pakistan is at the frontline of the global climate crisis, and nowhere is this more visible — or more devastating — than in its rapidly melting...

previous day 40

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Editorial

Theft-checker

Street crime has been a growing concern – in the urban centres of Pakistan. While Karachi has long been synonymous with robbery and mugging, this...

previous day 20

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Editorial

Danger of decontextualising terrorism

When violence erupts — in Gaza, Kashmir or any other conflict zone — governments, media and international actors often rush to frame it in stark,...

previous day 40

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M Zeb Khan

Indian proxies

The extermination of 12 'Indian proxy' terrorists in a gunfight with security forces confirms the notion that external meddling is the order of the...

previous day 40

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Editorial

A republic sans public, and a media sans ethics

Being semiotician, I am euphemistic. I can, therefore, just say that Indian media while monetising the threat of large-scale human disaster entered...

previous day 10

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Dr Shazia Anwer Cheema

Lighting the path to energy equity

Every semester, I return to a familiar question while addressing my students: What will power the world when fossil fuels are no longer available?...

previous day 10

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Dr Intikhab Ulfat

Ancient curse and Raj's paranoiac architecture eclipse future Pakistan

One ought to remain optimistic about the future, for living in despair is neither noble nor productive. Yet, Pakistan suffers from what I call a...

previous day 10

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Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Daredevil feat

Mountaineering looks like a kid's stuff for us Pakistanis. And this is no overstatement. So many of our mountaineers have made the country proud by...

wednesday 30

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Editorial

Modi's two-front war

After failing to win the latest, four-day war with Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is acting like a wounded lion whose ego is deeply...

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Dr Moonis Ahmar

The burden of generations

At universities and colleges across the US and Canada, May is the graduation season. With fanfare and pomp, graduation day brings festivities and...

wednesday 20

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Muhammad Hamid Zaman

The Butcher and the Ballot

Irtaza Abbas Turi was seven years old. He had no knowledge of geopolitics, no stake in borders, no understanding of the hate that precedes a...

wednesday 20

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Syed Jalal Hussain

Water stakes

After facing embarrassment on the military and diplomatic fronts, India is bent upon escalating tensions with Pakistan by weaponising water as a...

wednesday 50

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Editorial

Lagging development

Taxpayers contribute a portion of their hard-earned income each year with the expectation that their money will be used to improve public welfare....

wednesday 3

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Editorial

Sindoor, sexism and symbolism

Our world is not only unequal and unjust but also filled with ironies. One particular irony that has resurfaced recently is that militaries,...

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

India's Kargil moment

After Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in May 1998 in response to India's detonations, it was widely believed that the two countries would no...

20.05.2025 100

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Kamran Yousaf

Women online

In the age of the 'global village' where netizens from all around the world have formed their personal identities and established their global...

20.05.2025 90

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Editorial

Why America is losing ground

Statistics are one part of the changing American story. The other include serious cultural backlash against people of colour and those who follow...

20.05.2025 90

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Shahid Javed Burki

Rise and fall of Pakistan's agriculture

Just a year ago, agriculture was hailed as the "saviour" of Pakistan's economy. The sector recorded an impressive growth rate of 6.25% - the best...

20.05.2025 90

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Daud Khan & Ghasharib Shoukat

Haj: technical lacunae

The status quo is that the intending Hajis are not at fault. They bestowed their trust and hard-earned money with the government-regulated Haj...

20.05.2025 1

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Editorial

Teaching expression to young learners

It is heartening that a positive shift from quantity to quality is observed in our educational institutions. Some schools have started allocating...

20.05.2025 80

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M Nadeem Nadir

New tax law

The government has formalised some of its tax reforms by passing the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which is basically identical to the recent...

20.05.2025 60

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Editorial

Crushing tax target

The IMF's latest tax policy suggestions for Islamabad in relation to the upcoming annual budget may cause further consternation, as salaried...

19.05.2025 10

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Editorial

Man-made famine

On May 11, just hours before Israeli American hostage Edan Alexander was released by Hamas, the nation of Gaza was celebrating news of a nearing...

19.05.2025 4

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Editorial

Same slides, new fiscal year

It is that time of the year again. No, not mango season — though that might offer more sweetness than what is coming. It is pre-budget seminar...

19.05.2025 40

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Dr Aneel Salman

Public diplomacy and Indian war of reputation

India sought glory, and when the achievement of glory became the war-fighting aim, the only way you ended up fighting was a war of reputation....

19.05.2025 4

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Muhammad Ali Ehsan

Tainted wit and piety?

Throughout the ages, sages, empathetic individuals and characters who emerged in different times and advocated for positive change have often been...

19.05.2025 6

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Ali Hassan Bangwar

Curbing child marriage

In a long-overdue move, the National Assembly has passed a landmark bill aimed at curbing child marriage and forced conversions - two deeply...

19.05.2025 100

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Editorial

Paradise on the earth

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Abraham Lincoln The world around us — its mountains and plains, oceans and skies, flora...

19.05.2025 9

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Saira Samo