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Education in the negative space

In 2006, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego hosted a conference. Among the speakers was Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the...

20.11.2025 3

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Dr Ayesha Razzaque

Insurance canary

As the cost of insuring our houses escalates around the United States and the world, it appears that property insurance is acting like a canary in...

20.11.2025 2

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Paul F Delespinasse

The price of disorder

Pakistan’s roads reflect the broader dysfunction of its governance system: disorganised, improvised and reactive. Every few months, a new chief...

20.11.2025 1

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Suleman Zia

Transform the system

After 78 years of independence, if we take stock of where we were and how far we have travelled, no one would be justified in saying that as a...

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Hafiz Naeem Ur Rahman

The future of work

Internal Amazon documents reveal plans to replace more than half a million warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Executives call it innovation....

20.11.2025 2

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Matt Watkins

Bluewashing

The personal care industry has mastered the art of marketing eco-consciousness – evolving beyond familiar labels like “green,” “clean,” and...

20.11.2025 1

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Kate Petty

Why Article 140-A must evolve

The Punjab Assembly’s recent resolution to amend Article 140-A offers Pakistan a rare constitutional opening to rebuild democracy from the ground...

19.11.2025 10

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Abdullah Khalid & Qasim Shah

A COP30 agenda for Pakistan

Pakistan’s narrative at COP30 should begin with a simple premise that is both moral and practical: countries that contributed least to the crisis...

19.11.2025 3

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Zainab Naeem

Fix the water system

Pakistan speaks often of agricultural transformation, new seeds, climate-smart technologies, value chains, mechanisation and digital extension. But...

19.11.2025 3

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Mohsin Leghari

Censorship rules

Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that...

19.11.2025 10

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Gary Fields

Overvalued stocks

In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes...

19.11.2025 10

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Binoy Kampmark

Arbitrating the space

Outer space is no longer a silent frontier of exploration. It is rapidly transforming into a bustling commercial domain, where private enterprise...

19.11.2025 3

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Muhammad Siddique Ali Pirzada

Economic fallout

Pakistan stands today at a moment where questions of power, law and governance are no longer confined to constitutional commentary or political...

18.11.2025 10

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Syed Asad Ali Shah

Keeping hope at 1.5

As delegates meet in Belem, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, the world stands at a perilous moment in its fight against global warming. About...

18.11.2025 1

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Saleem Shaikh

Wrong court, real crisis

As of the end of last year, Pakistan’s courts were sitting on roughly 2.3 million unresolved cases. Nearly 83 per cent were pending in the district...

18.11.2025 7

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Khuzair Raheem

Safety is a right

The rising tide of harassment and assault against girls and women in Pakistan’s universities, workplaces and public spaces is not a series of...

18.11.2025 1

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Lubna Naz

Life-genocide balance

It has been more than a month since a “ceasefire” took hold in Gaza. That, of course, does not mean that the killing of Palestinians has stopped....

18.11.2025 1

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Talal Ali Khan

Pragmatism over polarity

When Pakistan’s first shipment of rare earth minerals quietly departed for the US in October, it drew immediate attention across Asian commentary...

18.11.2025 1

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Muhammad Umar

Declaration to dispossession

The phrasing of the Balfour agreement, a classic colonial document, implied that the majority Palestinian population had no name, nor rights, and...

17.11.2025 10

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M Reza Behnam

The PFM test

Transparency and accountability are the bedrock of any credible public financial system. They determine not only whether government resources are...

17.11.2025 1

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Amir Jahangir

Water under siege

When India announced earlier this year that it was ‘suspending’ the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), the warning bells in Islamabad rang loud. Days...

17.11.2025 10

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Syed Khawar Mehdi

The Zohran promise

The victory of 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election has brought a notable element not only to New York and the US, but...

17.11.2025 2

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Kamila Hyat

Erasure of history

Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide,...

17.11.2025 20

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Ramzy Baroud

Coming down from the mountain

The Kurram Agency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is in the news primarily on account of a spike in the TTP’s wanton attacks against law enforcement cadres....

17.11.2025 2

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M Saeed Khalid

The missing $60 billion

In a hard-hitting policy advisory, the World Bank has laid bare what Pakistan’s policymakers have long known but seldom acted upon: that the...

16.11.2025 7

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Hina Ayra

Hope at Belem

Hope for climate action seems to be the biggest casualty as COP30 starts. The last year has seen multilateralism pushed back, with a withering of...

16.11.2025 40

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Malik Amin Aslam Khan

Myth vs reality

Myth number 1: Article 243 equals ‘army rule’. Reality: The army is the largest service in Pakistan’s threat environment. That is geography, not...

16.11.2025 30

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Dr Farrukh Saleem

Lost and found in the USA

There are days when you become more acutely alive, when you feel emotionally overwhelmed. This may happen on landmark occasions in your life, such...

16.11.2025 2

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Ghazi Salahuddin

Bringing peace to Gaza?

On the occasion of the meeting of foreign ministers of the Muslim bloc held in Istanbul on November 3, Turkiye's foreign minister Hakan Fidan said,...

16.11.2025 7

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Dr Moonis Ahmar