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Who Really Controls The News? Journalism Vs Ownership In Pakistan

There are many kinds of journalists out there – what kind are you? Some are proper professional journalists who have gone through the ropes,...

yesterday 20

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Omar Quraishi

Pakistan’s Fintech Boom: How Digital Innovation Is Reshaping Access To Finance

In recent years, Pakistan has seen a significant rise in financial technology, commonly known as fintech. This growth has come at a time when the...

yesterday 40

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Tariq Khalique

No Honour In This Blood: The Murder Of Bano Bibi And The Machinery Of Patriarchal Impunity

On a July evening in 2025, under the vast, unyielding sky of Balochistan, a woman and a man — Bano Bibi and Ehsan Samalani — were executed not by...

yesterday 30

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Aroob Shafiq Malik

Caught Between The State And The Gun: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Struggle For Peace And Autonomy

In response to the deteriorating security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a conflict-prone province bordering Afghanistan, the PTI-led provincial...

yesterday 50

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Sartaj Khan

VIP Culture On The Roads: Pakistan’s Daily Humiliation Of The Public

In every country I’ve visited—be it the orderly lanes of the United Kingdom, the fluid decency of Dubai, the civic discipline of the United...

previous day 10

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Sakib Berjees

Congress, The Partition Of Punjab, And The Violence That Followed

Congress, The Partition Of Punjab, And The Violence That Followed

The great human tragedy of hundreds of thousands of lives lost at the time of Partition had more to do with the partition of the province of Punjab...

sunday 6

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

The Strategy Of Cowardice: How Piecemeal Power Politics Unravels Nations

Roman Herzog was the President of Germany in the mid-1990s and, as the first destination of his out-of-area visits, chose Pakistan. The hosts...

sunday 10

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Lt Gen Asad Durrani

Redirect £192m To Balochistan's Youth, Not Islamabad's Buildings

With hearts full of hope and eyes dampened by the tears of disappointment, we turn to Your Excellency with a solemn appeal regarding the £192...

26.07.2025 5

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Dr. Ikramul Haq

Jirga Justice Is No Justice: Pakistan Must Dismantle Parallel Systems Of Violence

Despite being governed by a constitution and a formal Penal Code, Pakistan continues to bear witness to brutal incidents that starkly defy its...

26.07.2025 2

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Anas A. Khan

Continuing Tyranny Of Extremism

Continuing Tyranny Of Extremism

Once upon a time in the misty hills of Malakand, a man in a black turban and flowing beard decided that Pakistan apparently needed saving from...

26.07.2025 40

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Mubashir Akram

How Colonial Water Policies Still Drown Pakistan

As monsoon rains swell the Indus once again, the river doesn’t merely flood—it laughs. It laughs at the concrete embankments, the colonial...

25.07.2025 1

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