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Punjab's launch of 33 mobile police stations, including six dedicated "Pink" units for women, seems like a good attempt to make it...
The internet has become an ordinary part of childhood, but the protections surrounding young users remain anything but ordinary. A new Kaspersky...
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...
Pakistan's "well-planned and calibrated" airstrikes against terrorist hideouts inside Afghanistan, described as a continuation of...
A theory popular since 2012 said that Washington's hostility towards Iran was really about defending the "petrodollar". Iraq sold oil...
Human society is caught in a permanent contradiction: while we constantly build rules, routines and industrial systems to keep things organised, the...
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...
Lahore's poisoned air is usually discussed as a winter smog problem. But now, Lahore has been identified by EU's Copernicus Atmosphere...
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...
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...
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...
What happens when powerful people stop believing that the future can be salvaged, and they instead start preparing to survive its destruction? That is...
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference 2026 brought together scholars, artists and thinkers around the theme of Asia's future and its...
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...
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...
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...
Behind-the-scenes diplomacy has made some headway. The reported willingness of the US to consider a "seven-day proposal" for tranquility...
There have been many debates about American democracy being indirect. The electoral college mechanism was inserted into the system in order to what...
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...
For two weeks we summed up the debate conducted by the Institute for Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis (ISSRA) at the National Defence...
Long after today's governments have gone, Pakistan and Afghanistan will still share the same mountains, passes, tribes, markets and frontier....
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...
Naqeebullah Mehsud, the 27-year-old aspiring model from Waziristan whose murder in Karachi led to nationwide protests, will not receive justice. An...
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...
The conflict in the Middle East has entered a deeply worrying phase. What began as another confrontation in a region accustomed to instability now...
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...
The bloodshed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is becoming horrifyingly familiar. In September alone, we witnessed with shock two devastating blasts in K-P which...
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...
For Karachi's commuters, University Road has become less a development project than an endurance test. The latest assurance from Sindh's...
The establishment of the National Faceless Centre (NFC) in Islamabad by the Federal Board of Revenue marks a significant shift in Pakistan's tax...
The horrific allegations of a gang-rape involving a 20-year-old Azerbaijani business traveler in Lahore highlight a deeply concerning issue,...
Inland waterways (IWs) are globally recognised as one of the most cost-effective and environmentally sustainable modes of transportation. Pakistan has...
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,...
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...
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....