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Reduced to rubble

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Asem Alnabih

Dead and forgotten

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Eman Hillis

Our antibiotic crisis

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Bibi Zainab

A rocket force

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Dr Raashid Wali Janjua

Parliament and conflict of interest

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Amir Jahangir

Climate-smart investment

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Zainab Naeem

AI vs me

Round 1, FIGHT: Never in a million years did I think that I would actually write on an unsaid war between humans and machines. But here we are. Of...

yesterday 30

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Aimen Siddiqui

The missing link in fiscal devolution

Pakistan’s federal fiscal system faces acute challenges as it negotiates the distribution of resources between the centre and provinces. On August...

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Yousuf Nazar

Pakistan’s costly sugar obsession

The sugar crisis has become a significant challenge to Pakistan’s existence. Our obsession with increasing sugar production is depleting the...

yesterday 10

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Dua Mobeen

India-China thaw

A brisk diplomatic engagement has gained momentum between India and China over the past few months, following years of tension after their 2020...

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Masood Khan

Democracy’s circus

America, the world’s richest democracy, produced Donald Trump. India, the world’s biggest democracy, produced Narendra Modi. Britain, the world’s...

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Dr Farrukh Saleem

Reconnecting with Bangladesh

During Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar's visit to Bangladesh, several agreements and memorandums of understanding were signed between the two countries....

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Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani

Islamabad’s waste dilemma

When you walk through the streets of Islamabad, you can immediately sense the contradictions of a rapidly growing city. Gleaming new sectors, high-...

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Soha Nisar

A vanishing global order

The international order, as we knew it, may be in its death throes but the disorder we see around is not the birth pangs of a new international...

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Qir Hussain

Disasters by design

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the Romans had no clue that such a thing could ever happen. Therefore, they had no means to prevent the...

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Mir Adnan Aziz

AI Techathon

The launch of the first National AI Techathon by the Ministry of Planning, under the URAAN initiative, is a watershed moment for Pakistan’s digital...

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Ejaz Shah

A costly gamble

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has now endured two climate catastrophes in just three years and the scale is staggering. In August 2025 alone, flash...

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Ebadat Ur Rehman Babar & Sufyan Khan

Returning refugees

On June 30, 2025, the Proof of Registration (PoR) cards held by registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan expired. This technical deadline masks a...

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Philippa Candler

Can the SCO rewrite the rules?

In an era when the world seems to be drifting back into blocs and rivalries reminiscent of the cold war, China’s decision to host the Shanghai...

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Dr Imran Khalid

Disaster foresight

The recent floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, generally attributed to cloudbursts, caught both the government and local communities off guard. These...

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Dr Babar Shahbaz

Where’s her voice?

As Pakistan marks its independence, we celebrate the resilience of a nation that has endured immense challenges. However, for women, that...

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Nurayn Qasim Ali

Meeting targets is not enough

The issue of low tax compliance in Pakistan has been a persistent concern for every government, regardless of which party is in power. Finance...

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I Hussain

Gendered toll of floods

Pakistan’s 2025 monsoon floods have once again unleashed a humanitarian disaster – and once again, women and girls are bearing an outsized burden....

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Simra Sohail

The Indus runs through it

“We will ensure no drop of the Indus River’s water reaches Pakistan”. Hindutva’s water resources minister Chandrakant Paatil threatened this...

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Engineer Khurram Dastgir-Khan

Save, invest, reform

Pakistan’s macroeconomic outlook reflects a paradox. On the surface, recent trends suggest stabilisation, with inflation easing and growth showing...

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Hina Ayra

Justice betrayed

“Nothing is more disgraceful than for a man to be convicted of falsehood”,wrote Marcus Tullius Cicero in his celebrated work De Officiis, a...

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Abuzar Salman Khan Niazi

The hashtag game

There is a strange irony in the way some people choose to rewrite reality. A man who spent years climbing the ladder of privilege through state...

28.08.2025 1

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Noor-Ul-Ain Ali

The devil’s breath

Flash floods, extreme rains and record-breaking heatwaves are no longer anomalies in Pakistan. They are the unmistakable signs of an accelerating...

28.08.2025 1

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Dr Eric Shahzar

Flammable mix

From Turkiye to Greece, from France to Spain, this summer’s Mediterranean wildfires make one thing clear: Something has changed. These are no...

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Alejandro Pedregal