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Incendiary Gaza plan

Incendiary Gaza plan

‘What was inescapable is that there is almost nothing left of Gaza.’

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Our algorithm-driven reality

Our algorithm-driven reality

The question is whether Pakistan is unique in its attempts to come to grips with social media.

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Gaza’s defiance spurs hope

Gaza’s defiance spurs hope

Today belongs to the Gazans who have sacrificed everything — homes, schools, universities, hospitals, life and limb — to keep...

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Two sides of the social media coin

Two sides of the social media coin

Musk raised a red herring often used by the far right in the UK to support Islamophobic, racist Tommy Robinson.

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Brutalised remain unheard

SOCIAL media has broken the monopoly of traditional media over information flows, but it has also exposed how the oppressed remain unheard, as the...

05.01.2025 100

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Why flash the bat at every ball?

‘WELL left’ is a term used in cricket when a batter judges the line and length of a potentially problematic ball correctly and, rather than taking...

29.12.2024 6

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Likely cause of US missile claim

WHILE the US policy has remained focused on enabling the creation of a Greater Israel via Gaza genocide, expansion of Zionist settlements in the...

22.12.2024 4

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Contours of the new Middle East

HOW and why the Assad regime collapsed like a house of cards in a mere 11 days, after battling foreign-sponsored rebel groups, including IS and Al...

15.12.2024 5

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Gaza genocide, degraded Axis

AGAINST the backdrop of serious setbacks to the Iran-led so-called Axis of Resistance and destructive divisions in the Muslim world, Amnesty...

08.12.2024 6

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An ode to the political worker

PAKISTAN’S history is replete with the heroism of political workers who have repeatedly demonstrated that their commitment to democratic ideals is...

01.12.2024 4

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Let’s not provoke Indus fury

AGAINST the backdrop of a significant upsurge in violent incidents in KP and Balochistan, which left around 100 people dead in just over a week,...

24.11.2024 10

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Throwing the VPN baby out…

THOSE who govern us may have expertise in multiple areas, but their ability and propensity to score own goals seem without parallel. None of us...

17.11.2024 20

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Mourning a friend

THE legacy media seems to have learnt no lesson from its debacle in the US presidential election, as its coverage based on its preconceived notions...

10.11.2024 10

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Iran’s refusal to back down

THE deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Rev­olutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gen Ali Fadavi, has said his country’s “response to the Zionist...

03.11.2024 4

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Is Middle Eastern escalation inevitable?

AFTER several weeks of preparations, Israel carried out its promised attack on Iran in the small hours of Saturday but the scale and scope of the...

27.10.2024 4

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Is ME escalation inevitable?

AFTER several weeks of preparations, Israel carried out its promised attack on Iran in the small hours of Saturday but the scale and scope of the...

27.10.2024 3

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Will order follow chaos?

THE chaos of the past several weeks, triggered by the fast-approaching retirement date of the chief justice of Pakistan on Oct 25 and concerns that...

20.10.2024 8

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New amendment attempt

IF anyone thought that with the notification of Qazi Faez Isa’s retirement as chief justice of Pakistan in less than two weeks, a line would be...

13.10.2024 10

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October status quo shake-up?

OCTOBER, it seems, will see decisive moves in both the Middle East conflict and in Pakistani politics, and the next 25 days may well determine the...

06.10.2024 3

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Israel’s firepower won’t win it peace

ISRAEL may have killed Hezbollah leader Sey­yed Hassan Nasrallah but what the world thinks of its occupation of Palestine, continued genocide in...

29.09.2024 5

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Imran-specific amendment?

HOPES that better sense would prevail have been dashed. Another effort is on the cards before the middle of next month after the last one failed...

22.09.2024 10

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The ever-elusive stability

THE two concurrent sessions of the National Assembly and the Senate called over the weekend suggest that the government feels confident of reaching...

15.09.2024 10

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A salve for Baloch wounds

SARDAR Akhtar Jan Mengal’s resignation from the National Assembly may have been in the making for some time, given the lack of empathy of the...

08.09.2024 2

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Balochistan — a way forward

AS violence erupted in Balochistan on the 18th anniversary of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s killing, about two dozen unarmed civilian bus travellers and...

01.09.2024 10

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Gaza and the Muslim world

TODAY, a new round of peace talks begins in Cairo but all indications are that Israel’s genocidal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is setting...

25.08.2024 10

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The Faiz phenomenon

FORMER spymaster retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hameed’s arrest and the news that he may be facing a field general court martial for activities prejudicial to...

18.08.2024 3

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Rulers struggling with social media

VENEZUELA’s recently re-elected President Nicolás Maduro has banned X; the British prime minister says he would have to look at social media...

11.08.2024 3

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Of man’s murderous ‘honour’

HORRIFIED by TV images of a young woman in a hospital in upper Sindh, and whose own father had attacked her with an axe because she wanted to...

04.08.2024 6

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Painful signs of a UK in decay

DECAYING and decrepit are the words that jump to mind whenever a mention is made of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, no...

28.07.2024 2

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SC verdict’s political impact

THE Supreme Court has restored the status of PTI as a political party and ordered the ECP to allocate the reserved seats to it as per its share in...

14.07.2024 3

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