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For decades, concerns such as enrolment, infrastructure, teacher training and learning outcomes have dominated our educational debate. These remain...
Historical precedents show that nations with greater adaptability to changing scenarios always survive the test of time, while those that fail to...
For almost eight decades – from the end of the Second World War to the second arrival of President Doanld Trump to the White House – the global...
Pakistan's IT exports hit a new record in the recently ended fiscal year, crossing $4.6 billion, and monthly exports hit $416 million in June....
Climate change has become Pakistan's defining development challenge, yet the global financial architecture created to help vulnerable countries...
Pakistan's relationship with the European Union under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP ) has been nothing short of transformative....
People still tell girls, "Don't worry. Your husband will take care of you." Really? Wonderful advice. While you're at it, why not...
For over three quarters of a century, Pakistanis have pinned their hopes on the promise of a dignified life. They have placed those hopes in...
No. Silence does not speak louder than words. Yes. That's a reminder for the government to find its voice. We are, it seems, living in a house of...
For seven consecutive nights, the United States has maintained a sustained campaign of strikes against Iran which has responded with missile and drone...
"No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark," wrote a British-Somali poet named Warsan Shire - 14 years before one of the...
Pakistan's decision to become a founding member of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) should be seen as more than...
Tensions have escalated into open conflict once again after both the US and Iran called off their ceasefire. Tehran has reported mass casualties...
In his op-ed for Arab News, Dr Syed Kaleem Imam, a former federal secretary and inspector general of police, makes three critical observations on...
Human beings have always been fascinated by the idea of being chosen. Nations seek it, civilisations claim it, and religious communities often find...
Pakistan's solar story is often told as a simple one. Electricity became expensive, supply remained unreliable, solar equipment got cheaper, and...
Sometimes one feels the universe has run out of script and is improvising, brashly, recycling material from sitcoms. Politics everywhere runs without...
Education, deemed as the most significant marker for progress in any nation, is kept at an unbelievably low rung of Pakistan's priority ladder....
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) has been dormant for over a decade, almost entirely due to the foreign policy of India....
The shifting sands of allegiance toward Israel in American politics are worth noting. Though it is unprecedented to expect an anti-Jewish sentiment at...
Inequality today is not only persistent; it is structurally embedded and self-reinforcing. Drawing on the work of more than 200 scholars, the World...
I am reviewing my writings from the past eighteen years these days to compile them for a forthcoming book on Pakistan's fight against terror and...
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck famously flipped the concept "trade follows the flag" to "Die Flagge folgt dem Handel" i.e....
Another life has been claimed by Karachi's unrelenting street crime, and the killing of a young doctor, Akash Kumar, has struck a particularly...
The Supreme Court has completed the remarkable process of digitising all pending cases, with over 44,995 pending case files being scanned, barcoded,...
The government's endeavour to bring in retailers with a favourable tax slab is appreciated. The intention is not only to ease complex accounting...
Read the new Data Governance Policy, 2026, by the Ministry of IT & Telecom, and it is genuinely hard to find fault with the ideas inside it. The...
Pakistan is a signatory to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, which calls for inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030....
The US-Israeli war on Iran has redefined the regional security architecture profoundly. That architecture in the Middle East was traditionally pegged...
As the US-Iran war refuses to settle into either peace or full collapse, three questions have come to dominate the conversation in Pakistan. One, will...
The European Union has become the latest bloc to move towards placing limits on children's access to social media, and the restrictions are among...
Pakistan's political divide has once again entered a phase where confrontation appears easier than compromise. The debate within PTI over Aleema...
The region is sliding into geo-economic chaos as the precarious US-Iran ceasefire begins to fray. The resumption of hostilities has once again...
Gilgit-Baltistan has a new government, and for a few hours Gilgit looked like a region entering a great democratic transition: roads closed, traffic...
The enactment of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly (Powers, Immunities and Privileges) Act, 2026, granting lawmakers expanded benefits, has...
When the last light of Ashura fades, the world is drawn back to a desert where the sky burned red and a small caravan stood before the machinery of an...
A girl was gang-raped by a group of four men, the crime brazenly filmed for the purpose of blackmailing her. The Supreme Court overturned a death...
Kashmir is the jugular vein of Pakistan - and standing fast with the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir is a cardinal principle of its foreign...
The 2026 World Cup has reached its semifinal stage, and the four teams left standing make a strong case for themselves. France meets Spain, and...
Coercion has been the primary tool of statecraft throughout President Donald Trump's second term up until this point. From the outset, tariffs,...
Like people across the globe, I too have been afflicted by the football world cup fever. I have particularly enjoyed seeing people in Boston donning...
The idea behind teacher licensure is sound. Teaching should not be treated as casual employment. It is a profession that shapes every other...
Walk into any university in Pakistan today and you will find three things in abundance: degree programmes; PowerPoint slides, and student anxieties....
Why do we adhere fanatically to the compartmentalisation of knowledge – secular or canonical? Those who write secular literature – fiction or...
I write this after the conclusion of the two-day summit of the NATO nations held in Ankara from July 6 to 7 at the Turkey Presidential Palace. The...
With the world diverted by the Iran War and despite the Gaza Peace Plan, Israeli genocide in Palestine continues. Since Israel started its Gaza...
Despite Sindh government's best attempts at trying to gaslight the citizens of Karachi about the state of their city, the Global Liveability...
Pakistan's population crisis has been at least over seven decades in the making. Despite repeated family planning initiatives and various...
India's unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty has endangered regional peace and security. Apart from the fact that the move is in...
"They handcuffed me to a chair and made me stand for two days. Then they beat us and put us in the car." Winta, 16 and now a survivor, was...
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