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December 16: Day Of Mourning Or Victory Day?

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Dr Moonis Ahmar

Remembering 16 December 1971 And The Collapse Of Pakistan’s Democratic Promise

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Ambassador M. Alam Brohi

Pakistan’s Centralised Power And Historical Crises: Lessons From 1971 To Today

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Time To Cut Rates: Pakistan’s Economy Needs A Boost

Time To Cut Rates: Pakistan’s Economy Needs A Boost

With inflation tamed and reserves rebuilt, the central bank is confronting a fundamentally different macroeconomic landscape than the one that...

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Yousuf Nazar

Pakistan’s Smog Crisis And What China’s War On Pollution Teaches Islamabad

Pakistan’s Smog Crisis And What China’s War On Pollution Teaches Islamabad

The air in Lahore is again a poisonous mix, and the Air Quality Index (AQI) reached 301 in December, at dangerous levels that cover the city in a...

yesterday 20

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Arbaz Raza

When Glaciers Die In Silence: The Unfolding Himalayan Tragedy The World Ignores

The silence of a state can sometimes be louder than the calamity it refuses to confront, and today Pakistan stands drowned beneath the weight of...

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Engineer Arshad H Abbasi

Pakistan’s Strategic Stability Vs India’s Volatile US-Russia Balancing In 2025

South Asian geopolitics, where alliances double-cross about as much as the shifting desert sands, India’s geopolitical hokey-pokey between...

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Mohsin Durrani

Public Universities In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Funding Crisis And The Taxpayer’s Role

Public Universities In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Funding Crisis And The Taxpayer’s Role

Of late, there has been a glut of alarming news items about the severe financial distress that the 34 public universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

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Altaf Qadir

The Faiz Hameed Verdict: A Twelve-Year Institutional Failure

The Faiz Hameed Verdict: A Twelve-Year Institutional Failure

The fourteen-year sentence handed to retired Lt Gen Faiz Hameed by a military court is unprecedented: a former ISI chief court-martialled and...

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Mohammad Nafees

The Dhurandhar Fuss & Projecting Pakistan’s Soft Image

What is the big fuss over the Bollywood film Dhurandhar? It’s an attempt by Bollywood to make a film on Karachi and its gang wars, and in the...

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Omar Quraishi

Pakistan’s Digital Economy: Freelancers Create Value But Lack Rights And Protections

Pakistan’s Digital Economy: Freelancers Create Value But Lack Rights And Protections

Pakistan’s digital promise looks attractive on the surface. We hear the same confident language everywhere. Freelancing will lift incomes. Content...

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Prof. Dr Taimoor Ul Hassan

The Indispensable Role Of The U.S. In Managing Indo-Pak Crises And Regional Stability

For decades, Washington has insisted that India and Pakistan should resolve their disputes bilaterally. New Delhi prefers it that way, Islamabad...

saturday 20

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Saad Hafiz

Pakistan’s Judiciary Faces Historic Challenges After 27th Amendment

Pakistan’s Judiciary Faces Historic Challenges After 27th Amendment

This is not an essay on the impact of the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill on the judiciary. It is not even a comment. It is an obituary of the...

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Supreme Court Landmark Ruling: Wedlock Policy Safeguards Family And Women In Service

Supreme Court Landmark Ruling: Wedlock Policy Safeguards Family And Women In Service

In the recent case titled Mubashir Iqbal Zafar vs. Ministry of Defence through its Secretary, Pak Secretariat-II Saddar, Rawalpindi and others...

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Nida Usman Chaudhry

Incendiary Rhetoric In Pakistan: How Words Deepen Divisions And Threaten Democracy

It is that time again. Pakistan’s political class rediscovers its flair for theatrical flourish, as if the national script requires periodic re-...

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Dr. Tariq Rahim