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Police stations on the move

Punjab's launch of 33 mobile police stations, including six dedicated "Pink" units for women, seems like a good attempt to make it...

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Unsafe online

The internet has become an ordinary part of childhood, but the protections surrounding young users remain anything but ordinary. A new Kaspersky...

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Editorial

Surging Houthis

Despite hopes for a thaw amid the widening Middle East conflict, the Houthis' surge is acting as a spanner in the works. Reports that the...

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Force, dialogue or both?

Pakistan's "well-planned and calibrated" airstrikes against terrorist hideouts inside Afghanistan, described as a continuation of...

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Imtiaz Gul

Leverage has limits

A theory popular since 2012 said that Washington's hostility towards Iran was really about defending the "petrodollar". Iraq sold oil...

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Dr Ikramul Haq

Why humanity's quest for order still matters

Human society is caught in a permanent contradiction: while we constantly build rules, routines and industrial systems to keep things organised, the...

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Bilal Ahmad

India's totalitarian panopticon

Last week, when the story of the centralisation of electoral rolls in India and the arbitrary deletion of voters broke, the name of Dr Seema Khanna...

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Farrukh Khan Pitafi

Ozone depletion

Lahore's poisoned air is usually discussed as a winter smog problem. But now, Lahore has been identified by EU's Copernicus Atmosphere...

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Elusive hockey gold

Pakistan has not won a hockey gold medal at the Asian Games since 2010, and their 4 / 3 semifinal loss to arch-rivals India yesterday ensures that the...

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Talks in the shadows?

Days ahead of the PTI's march on the federal capital, reports of behind-the-scenes talks offer a welcome reprieve. PM's Adviser Rana...

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The pyramid that was never a pyramid

One of the most taught pyramids in Pakistani higher education was never drawn by the man it's credited to. Yet walk into any psychology or...

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Nadia Kaleem

The privatisation of resilience

What happens when powerful people stop believing that the future can be salvaged, and they instead start preparing to survive its destruction? That is...

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Syed Siddiq Hussain

Performance, persona and Asian heritages at the AAS

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference 2026 brought together scholars, artists and thinkers around the theme of Asia's future and its...

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Sadia Pasha Kamran

Ensuing conflicts: emerging economic and security milieu

The world is currently mired in at least 65 active conflicts, the highest number recorded post-WWII. Of these, 9 are interstate while the remaining 57...

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Dr Raza Muhammad

Sindh's rabies crisis

World Rabies Day passed earlier this week, and Sindh's official figures tell the story of a province being chewed up by a completely preventable...

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Editorial

Failed rescue mission

The recovery of the MT Honour 25 from Somali pirates should have brought relief after more than five months of captivity. Instead, it has ended in...

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Editorial

The seven-day gesture

Behind-the-scenes diplomacy has made some headway. The reported willingness of the US to consider a "seven-day proposal" for tranquility...

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Editorial

Is American democracy unresponsive?

There have been many debates about American democracy being indirect. The electoral college mechanism was inserted into the system in order to what...

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Imran Jan

The case of a global concert

In May last year, I wrote in these pages that the ghost of the Concert of Europe should be neither romanticised nor dismissed. It's harder to...

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Amna Hashmi

Transforming global order - the wider debate

For two weeks we summed up the debate conducted by the Institute for Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis (ISSRA) at the National Defence...

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Inam Ul Haque

The geography we cannot change

Long after today's governments have gone, Pakistan and Afghanistan will still share the same mountains, passes, tribes, markets and frontier....

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Durdana Najam

School van safety

The sight of a school van reduced to a burnt-out shell in Murree should be enough to dispel any illusion that Pakistan's existing approach to...

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Editorial

Eight years for injustice

Naqeebullah Mehsud, the 27-year-old aspiring model from Waziristan whose murder in Karachi led to nationwide protests, will not receive justice. An...

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US withdrawal from Iraq

The security landscape of the Middle East is in a state of flux. The footprints of the lone superpower, the United States, are shrinking, and new...

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Pakistan's moment

The conflict in the Middle East has entered a deeply worrying phase. What began as another confrontation in a region accustomed to instability now...

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Sadia Sulaiman

Everyone is happy online, I'm suspicious

I have started to suspect that I am the only unhappy person on the internet. Not clinically unhappy. Relax. I am talking about the ordinary, everyday...

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Yumna Zahid Ali

TTP: a threat until it is not!

The bloodshed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is becoming horrifyingly familiar. In September alone, we witnessed with shock two devastating blasts in K-P which...

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M Zeb Khan

Can an honest taxpayer sell property in Pakistan?

The short answer, in practical terms, is a big NO. Here is why! In Canada and the United States, a property sale is generally handled through a...

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Haroon Rashid Siddiqi

BRT deadline fatigue

For Karachi's commuters, University Road has become less a development project than an endurance test. The latest assurance from Sindh's...

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Editorial

Taking away taxman's bias

The establishment of the National Faceless Centre (NFC) in Islamabad by the Federal Board of Revenue marks a significant shift in Pakistan's tax...

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Editorial

Failing foreign guests

The horrific allegations of a gang-rape involving a 20-year-old Azerbaijani business traveler in Lahore highlight a deeply concerning issue,...

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Editorial

Inland waterways of Pakistan: the untapped potential

Inland waterways (IWs) are globally recognised as one of the most cost-effective and environmentally sustainable modes of transportation. Pakistan has...

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Adrak Hussain

Heroes and public safety

A legacy of the Covid-19 years, I hope, is a broader recognition of the work of frontline workers. During some of the darkest days of the pandemic,...

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Muhammad Hamid Zaman

Which room am I standing in?

I am dedicating this piece to Ishmal - nine years old, from Madyan, Upper Swat. She went to school, came home, and was raped and killed by a neighbour...

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Dr Rakhshinda Perveen

What a week at Oxford taught me about character formation

Teaching has gone on in Oxford for nine centuries, and it has never confined itself to what a person knows; it has always cared what a person becomes....

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Dr Asghar Zaidi