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Pakistan has a basis for this role. It helped broker the June MOU and has kept channels open to Tehran and Washington, working with Qatar and other...
Sport rarely keeps to the script. This week, a football giant was dismantled by a club that was in the lower leagues not long ago, a batter scored the...
Perhaps man, at his evil best, with deliberate intent, smudges the strong lines that demarcate need from greed. A time arrives when greed is made to...
With 54% of its territory swallowed by dunes, Umerkot bears the brunt of neighbouring droughts while remaining completely invisible to state relief,...
Israel’s three-year-long war on Gaza has had a transformative impact on multiple levels—all relevant to the Israeli-Palestinian arena. Most...
Washington, Tehran and Tel Aviv are exchanging threats as commercial shipping, energy supplies and civilian lives face growing danger. The Strait of...
The news of an Emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has already been absorbed into the ordinary rhythm of Pakistani life....
Pakistan has the highest rate of diabetes in the world. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates that 34.5 million Pakistani adults were...
When the twin towers fell in September 2001, terrorism ceased to be a distant menace and became the defining threat of a generation. Capitals across...
The other day, after signing a deal with President Vladimir Putin to buy diesel from Russia, President Donald Trump suggested to the Ukrainians to...
Pakistan's external sector remains highly sensitive to international oil prices because of the country's dependence on imported crude oil...
The eighth Moscow Format consultations on Afghanistan concluded on October 5 without a joint communiqué. The immediate disagreement was between...
First today, congratulations to the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2026, Navi Pillay (85), a human rights and international law jurist who won the...
What keeps a household earning is the reason PPAF was created. In the nineties, the state built schools and water schemes in the villages and left the...
For more than two decades, Pakistan has been fighting a war against terrorism whose price has been paid in blood by its citizens, police personnel and...
Speculation had run through Islamabad for a week, yet the federal government's decision on Sunday to impose an emergency and Governor's Rule...
In a village near Sahiwal, some years ago, I met a woman who had taken one of our interest-free loans, 30,000 or 40,000 rupees, and opened a small...
The students of economic history know well about the misery of rampant stagflation in the 1970s, which engulfed almost the entire West and arguably,...
Pakistan, through the force of external subversions and lack of broad-based consultations, faces multiple fronts internally and abroad. Since 1947,...
A country can become a victim of its own fertility. Its classrooms fill faster than it can build schools; its cities expand faster than it can lay...
Green streets, thriving parks and tree-lined public spaces are more than an aesthetic ambition. They are essential infrastructure for healthier, more...
Iran’s geography, population, historical identity and military capabilities justify a substantial regional role. They do not confer a right to...
Over the past five years (2021–2026), Pakistan has witnessed a sharp resurgence in militant violence, civil unrest, and governance breakdowns. While...
Iran can withstand confrontation while losing the future its resistance is intended to protect. Military endurance may frustrate an adversary’s...
It was inevitable. It was coming. The writing had been on the wall for months, etched in the deepening chasm between the federal government and the...
At a time of conflict, economic uncertainty, climate shocks and rapid technological change, countries are looking for the people and possibilities...
While proponents assert that the spread of democracy is essential to peace, two allied democracies—the United States and Israel—are engaged in...
In the study of human history, the continuum of arrogance having been duly punished is a great assurance. Arrogance has a limited shelf life....
The socialist society, according to Marx, is "in every respect, economically, morally and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of...
The escalation of conflict in the Middle East since February 2026, following the USA-Israel coalition's unwarranted and unprovoked attack on...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about ten of the best individual performances in Pakistan's Test history, and it seemed only fair to give the one-day game...
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