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Defence in 3D

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Dr Adeel Ghayur

Because they can

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Hira Zainab

Is [solar] power just for the privileged?

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Dr Rihab Khalid

Mr Trump should be different

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Turki Al Faisal

What Israel and the US didn’t achieve

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Nasim Zehra

Stop tolerating terror

Twelve days of missiles, drones, and air strikes left Iranian cities scarred, Israeli towns shaken and the entire region teetering on the edge of a...

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Muhammad Umar

Welfare not warfare

Amidst falling living standards and attacks on social welfare systems by the advanced capitalist world's ruling elites, the Global North's...

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Abdul Sattar

Why innovation has stalled

In a world where innovation defines the speed of progress and nations' fate, particularly their banking, media and telecommunications industries,...

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Amir Jahangir

The tyranny of sugar

I have watched the rise of Pakistan’s sugar industry with dismay. What began as an agro-based industrial promise has, over the years, turned into...

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Sakib Berjees

A long winding road

Bhurgri (also spelled Bhurgari) is essentially a Baloch tribe that settled in Sindh a couple of centuries ago. Today, the community reflects a...

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Dr Naazir Mahmood

Repentance in Muharram

The powerful tradition of repentance will be highlighted yet again as Muslims across the world this week began observing the Islamic month of...

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Farhan Bokhari

The shadow of neo-Zionism

In a tragic twist of history, the Jewish people, once liberated from Babylonian captivity by a Persian king, now find themselves locked in a...

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Masood Lohar

Defence and data

The determination of Pakistan’s defence budget should be guided by a mathematical, data-driven approach. This approach should rest on three...

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Dr Farrukh Saleem

Can the US afford a Zohran?

While President Donald Trump was making headlines this week on the global stage, particularly playing ‘daddy’ in the Israel-Iran conflict, a...

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Ghazi Salahuddin

Visionary HEC leadership

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan was established in 2002 with an ambitious mandate: to expand access to higher education, enhance...

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Dr Javaid Laghari

Climate lessons from Covid

Pakistan celebrated World Environment Day on June 5. Various government departments issued statements and advertisements, showing their commitment...

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Dr Muhammad Imran

Pakistan’s food crisis is structural

Pakistan is in the grip of food insecurity and poverty: 21 per cent of its population is undernourished, and approximately 45 per cent of the...

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Qasim Shah And Dua Mobeen

Experimenting with the constitution

Pakistan continues to make experiments with its constitution as it fails to find an equilibrium in its constitutional system where de facto and de...

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Muhammad Waqar Rana

More cotton, less sugarcane

Pakistan is experiencing chronic water stress. Apart from the threat posed by India to upend the Indus Waters Treaty, we should recognise that the...

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I Hussain

DC’s South Asia policy

The recent escalation between India and Pakistan offered critical insights for analysts and policymakers. One of the most important takeaways for...

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Maheen Shafeeq

The regional stabiliser

In a geopolitical moment as symbolic as it is strategic, the meeting between COAS Field Marshal Asim Munir and US President Donald Trump marks an...

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Omay Aimen

Punjab’s struggle with devolution

Since colonial times, provincial local governments have been the foundation and doorstep of the delivery of social and municipal services. In...

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Hamid Masood

Unyielding heart

The profound and unrelenting struggles endured by Palestinians should, by any rational expectation, have irrevocably concluded the Palestinian...

26.06.2025 4

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Ramzy Baroud

New order – or disorder?

What has gone wrong with the world? There is chaos everywhere – from Europe, Asia and the Middle East to Africa. The economic order established...

26.06.2025 4

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Hassan Baig

A quiet diplomatic milestone

A lot has happened in the past fortnight or so as far as Pakistan is concerned, especially with regard to its ties with the US. Perhaps, one of the...

26.06.2025 4

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Omar Quraishi

War and deterrence

Everybody is speaking about the changing nature of the war and deterrence in the backdrop of the India-Pakistan standoff in May 2025, without...

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Dr Raashid Wali Janjua

Pakistan’s aquifers in the AI era

Pakistan has taken a bold step toward embracing the digital economy by allocating 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity for Artificial Intelligence...

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Furqan Ali And Irum Khan