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The lamb, the lion, the cage

Human history drips with the blood and memory of lions roaming unchecked – majestic, merciless and unchallenged. They roared across valleys, rivers...

yesterday 30

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Azhar Abbas

Requiem for a dream deferred

We gather today in memory of a once-vibrant force that lifted thousands from mediocrity into the light of scholarship, and which believed in merit...

yesterday 10

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Dr Ayesha Razzaque

Orwell helps

When activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla were being held in Ktziot prison, Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir staged a...

yesterday 10

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Mark Milinich

KP’s constitutional double trouble

Recent developments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have raised serious constitutional concerns. A situation has emerged where a session of the provincial...

yesterday 10

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Hafiz Ahsaan Ahmad Khokhar

Uprooted

The occupier’s aim was not only to render the Palestinians of Gaza homeless but also unable to provide for themselves. Uprooting the dispossessed...

yesterday 10

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Said Alsaloul

What Muttaqi’s India visit means for Pakistan

It appears that everything was thoughtfully choreographed. The Afghan Interim Government (AIG) ‘s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi would visit...

yesterday 40

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Asif Durrani

Barricades can’t build confidence

Last week, Islamabad was once again turned into a fortress. Long walls of shipping containers and trailers, meant to carry trade goods to and from...

previous day 10

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Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri

After the bombs

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump announced that the United States, working with Egypt, Turkiye and Qatar, had finally reached a...

previous day 20

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Refaat Ibrahim

Heroes among us

Pakistan has often been criticised, mostly by Pakistanis themselves, as a land which has produced too few role models and too few heroes of any...

previous day 20

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Kamila Hyat

Gaza and Ireland

Regardless of how the long-delayed, welcome ceasefire in Gaza plays out, there are historic parallels that shed a warning on the future for...

previous day 20

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Chuck Idelson

The transparency gap

Pakistan’s healthcare sector faces a myriad of governance challenges. There is a weak regulatory enforcement mechanism allowing substandard...

previous day 60

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Kashif Ali & Saira Bano

Between hype and doom

Few events in recent memory have stirred as much debate as the recent Saudi–Pakistan agreement. Mainstream media, social media and private...

previous day 20

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Irfan Mustafa

Seizing on disaster

When the Indian Ocean tsunami reached Myanmar’s coast in 2004, the Moken people had already sought safety on higher ground. They had no written...

monday 10

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Yevgeniy Zhukov

Tourism’s test of resilience

Resilience has become the defining test for Pakistan’s travel and tourism industry. Each monsoon season, as rivers swell and valleys brace for...

monday 20

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Amir Jahangir

Pakistan’s civil service crisis

There was a time when joining the Pakistan Civil Service was seen as the highest symbol of intellect and duty. These days, the civil service of...

monday 40

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Sakib Berjees

Sustainable tourism

The term ‘sustainable tourism’ refers to sustainable and nature-based tourism. The purpose of such tourism is not only to enjoy and learn about...

monday 30

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Zile Huma

True peace

On October 10, a ceasefire in Gaza was officially announced. International news media were quick to focus on what they now call “the peace plan”....

monday 1

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Sara Awad

Achieving digital literacy

In Pakistan, a person is considered literate if they can read and understand a simple text, write a simple letter and perform basic mathematical...

monday 40

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Dr Javaid Laghari

The real barrier is in the mind

When I translated Stephen Hawking’s ‘A Brief History of Time’ into Urdu as ‘Waqt ka Safar’ in 1990 for the Mashal Foundation, science felt...

12.10.2025 50

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Dr Naazir Mahmood

Climate planning

Pakistan has suffered three major floods in just fifteen years. In 2010, the Indus overflowed and left a fifth of the country underwater. In 2022,...

12.10.2025 40

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Taimur Khan

The collapse of Western conscience

The destruction of Gaza has exposed something larger than a war. It has shown the moral collapse of the Western political order that claims to...

12.10.2025 1

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Muhammad Umar

Trump magnet park

America cannot do without magnets. America cannot do without Neodymium (Nd). America cannot do without Praseodymium (Pr). And, America cannot do...

12.10.2025 40

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Dr Farrukh Saleem

Caring for Karachi

A long time ago, I fancied myself as a chronicler of Karachi, pretending to be able to interpret the experience of living in this chaotic and...

12.10.2025 10

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Ghazi Salahuddin

No readers, no writers, no literature Nobel

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recently awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature to Hungarian novelist and screenwriter Laszlo...

11.10.2025 2

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Furqan Ali

The great corporate retreat

Over the last three years, Pakistan has witnessed an unsettling trend: multinational companies (MNCs) that once proudly invested in its growing...

11.10.2025 1

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Hina Ayra

History of deception

The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump...

11.10.2025 1

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Ramzy Baroud

Transforming care

Earlier this month in Islamabad, UN Women organized the National Dialogue on Transforming Care 2025, a historic meeting of policymakers,...

11.10.2025 2

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Jamshed Kazi

Measured steps

For years, New Delhi has manipulated the label of ‘net security provider’ and ‘democratic counter to China’ to its own benefit under the so-called...

11.10.2025 10

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Maheen Shafeeq

Mind the gaps

During the 2025 floods, more than 6.3 million people were affected and 2.9 million displaced. Grief has left survivors overwhelmed, struggling with...

11.10.2025 2

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Dr Hadia Aziz