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Masood Lohar

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HISTORY: THE LAST STAND

For decades, the Hindu Shahis held the line between Central Asia and Hindustan. Their struggle against Mahmud of Ghazni was the...

08.03.2026 30

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Masood Lohar

The treaty tremor

Floodwaters can be steered into wetlands, abandoned lakes, and depleted aquifers.

28.12.2025 60

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Masood Lohar

Capitalism reborn – again

11.11.2025 40

The News International

Masood Lohar

HISTORY: GURUS AND KINGS

The stories of the martyrdoms of the Sikh Gurus are moral parables — reminders that true faith does not lie in dominance

02.11.2025 10

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Masood Lohar

The Great South Asian oddity

18.10.2025 30

The News International

Masood Lohar

New Gulf order

24.09.2025 30

The News International

Masood Lohar

Changing geography

23.08.2025 30

The News International

Masood Lohar

The Zion-Hindutva axis

08.08.2025 20

The News International

Masood Lohar

The Zion-Hindutva axis

08.08.2025 30

The News International

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Being prepared

The Russian quake wasn’t our tragedy, but it is our warning.

03.08.2025 70

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Masood Lohar

Why Oborne saw Gaza coming

22.07.2025 20

The News International

Masood Lohar

Climate hypocrisy

12.07.2025 50

The News International

Masood Lohar

ESSAY: THE PRINCE OF SYNCRETISM

Scholar, translator and heir to the Mughal throne, Dara Shikoh was declared a heretic for believing Hindu sages and Sufi

06.07.2025 20

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Masood Lohar

The shadow of neo-Zionism

29.06.2025 30

The News International

Masood Lohar

The Bhutto reboot

17.06.2025 10

The News International

Masood Lohar

The ‘end of India’

06.06.2025 10

The News International

Masood Lohar

Modern-day slavery

22.05.2025 30

The News International

Masood Lohar

ESSAY: HOW A DREAM WAS TRANSFORMED

Born from Sufi and Bhakti traditions, Sikhism was India’s great interfaith experiment… until persecution and betrayals turned

18.05.2025 10

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Masood Lohar

Let rivers flow

The IWT remains technically functional but ecologically flawed.

17.05.2025 150

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Modi’s shattered mirage

14.05.2025 10

The News International

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A nearly dead delta

18.04.2025 20

The News International

Masood Lohar

Sindhu’s roar

MIKHAIL Sholokhov, the great Russian writer of Quiet Flows the Don, perhaps never knew that there are rivers that do not flow quietly, whose roars are...

08.04.2025 100

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Masood Lohar

Choked Pakistan

25.03.2025 20

The News International

Masood Lohar

Stolen spring

Spring’s vanishing act is more than just a seasonal show of quirkiness.

22.03.2025 40

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Masood Lohar

Climate inferno

13.03.2025 10

The News International

Masood Lohar

Time bomb

Reduced river flows will compound water stress in Sindh’s vulnerable districts.

12.01.2025 100

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Masood Lohar

Death in the air

TODAY, a staggering 25 per cent of Pakistan’s population is struggling for clean air. The Air Quality Index caps at 500; yet this year, Lahore...

29.12.2024 8

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Masood Lohar