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Pakistan’s missing stories

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Mehnaz Akber Aziz

Taking the wheel

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Ramzy Baroud

India’s Trishul exercise

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Dr Zahir Kazmi

How labour can help

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Samer Jaber

AI: the new industrial wave

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Atta-Ur-Rahman

What options on the Pak-Afghan table?

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Asif Durrani

A costly COP

Scientists have warned that “global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected”, with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost...

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Munir Ahmed

Quiet revolution

Something extraordinary is happening in Pakistan, and at the centre of it stands COAS Field Marshal Asim Munir, a steady, disciplined figure...

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Irfan Mustafa

South Asia’s climate quandary

South Asia, home to nearly two billion people, is no longer peering at climate risk through the telescope of 2050; it is living it now. Heatwave...

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Raza Hussain Qazi

Dignity for all

New York, the largest city in America, has an opportunity to elect Zohran Mamdani, a young man, a democratic socialist, an immigrant (at age seven),...

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Douglas H White

From disaster to despair

Each monsoon in Pakistan heralds less a renewal of life and more a rehearsal for ruin. The 2025 floods, which swept through the vast industrial...

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Dr Rafia Batool Khan

Rebuilding Gaza

The idea of reconstruction is dangled before the residents of Gaza. Those who call for it from abroad seem to envision just clearing rubble,...

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Alison Phipps & Sultan Barakat

Judges: to be seen and not heard?

The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has recently amended the code of conduct for Supreme Court and high court judges. The SJC derives its powers...

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Muhammad Waqar Rana

Weaponisation of poverty

In any functioning democracy, poverty should be treated as an economic and human challenge, not a political asset. Yet, in Pakistan, the...

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Amir Jahangir

Empire ruins environment

The secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, does not mince words in the Guardian: “Devastating consequences now inevitable but...

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Howard Lisnoff

Learning to livelihood

Pakistan is experiencing a demographic moment that is both an opportunity and a risk. With nearly 68 per cent of the population under the age of...

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Dr Saima Bashir

Faith and charity

Across Pakistan, dargahs and darbars have long stood as centres of faith and fellowship. But they are also, in many ways, the country’s most...

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Suleman Zia

Israel’s enablers

Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations...

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Chris Hedges

A fragile truce

At dawn on a cool October morning, officials in Islamabad and Kabul performed a rare ritual in the history of their troubled frontier: they agreed...

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Dr Naazir Mahmood

Healing a wounded society

When you contemplate the present state of affairs in Pakistan from various perspectives and glide over the media headlines, the impression that we...

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Ghazi Salahuddin

Diplomatic peak

Pakistan is reaching diplomatic heights unseen in its 78-year history. From Riyadh to Baku. From Beijing to Moscow. Pakistan’s handshake now spans...

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Dr Farrukh Saleem

Cheap labour, costly silence

Almost thirty years ago, a boy named Iqbal Masih was shot dead near Lahore. He was twelve, the age most children should be in school, not running...

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Muhammad Umar

An LLM of our own

In August, I had the opportunity to attend an AI journalism lab alongside many like-minded journalists. During the two-day training, we met an...

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Aimen Siddiqui

Climate diplomacy

This November, the world is bracing for COP 30 in Belem, Brazil with a shift towards implementing climate financing. This moment holds great...

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Dr Anjeela Khurram

Need to carve new pathways

Among deafening chants of resurgence, Pakistan seems to be getting increasingly embroiled in suicidal entanglements that it would be better to stay...

01.11.2025 6

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Raoof Hasan

NDC 3.0 must deliver

The newly submitted NDC 3.0 by Pakistan to the UNFCCC exhibits a robust commitment to climate action, marked by its exclusivity, associated costs,...

01.11.2025 6

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Naureen Fatima

COP action agenda

The negotiations process under COP30 will start on November 10 in Belem, Brazil, and continue until November 21, 2025. This COP is also referred to...

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Zile Huma

The rise and retreat of the TLP

The recent fall from grace of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) is as dramatic as was its rise. Led by firebrand cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who...

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Hussain H Zaidi

AI’s climate blindspot

Seven of nine planetary boundaries have been breached. Climate change, biosphere collapse, freshwater depletion and, for the first time, ocean...

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David Sathuluri