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The climate dividend of digital exports

PAKISTAN’S freelance services exports surged from $214 million in FY2020 to $1.76 billion in FY2026, creating new opportunities for employment and...

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Vision 2040: Securing future of agriculture

Food crisis, solutions & outlook to 2040 PAKISTAN’S agriculture plays a vital role in the country’s economy, food security and rural...

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Pak-China Friendship Hospital: Turning Bilateral Friendship into Free Healthcare for All

For a family struggling to make ends meet, a medical emergency can quickly turn into a financial nightmare. The inability to afford medicines,...

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Music & learning

BAND karo ye gaanay waanay, aisay kon parhta hai? is something many of us grew up hearing. You sit down with your chemistry book, put on your...

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Ali Dar inaugurates newly-developed passage at Data Darbar

Ali Dar inaugurates newly-developed passage at Data Darbar

Advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab on Artificial Intelligence and Special Initiatives and Chairman RPC Ali Dar visited the shrine complex of Hazrat...

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Another CoD!

CHIEF of JUI(F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has invited the Government to agree on a Charter of Democracy (CoD), warning the opposition was ready for...

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Hormuz crisis: Pakistan must prepare before it is too late

The crisis around the Strait of Hormuz is a warning Pakistan cannot ignore. Even if hostilities ease, energy supplies, freight rates and insurance...

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Who owns the carbon in Sindh’s mangroves?

THE 2022 floods put a third of Pakistan under water and affected 33 million people. The post-disaster needs assessment, prepared by the government...

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AI is removing the first rung of the career ladder. Pakistan cannot afford to lose it

That is the share of Anthropic’s technical hires who were junior, in early 2025 and then in mid-2026. Anthropic published that number about itself...

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Rethinking Qatar’s security amid US-Israeli war with Iran

THE damage inflicted on Qatar’s energy industry during the US–Israeli war against Iran has exposed a vulnerability that even sophisticated...

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Taking CPEC Forward: From Infrastructure to Economic Transformation

Taking CPEC Forward: From Infrastructure to Economic Transformation

The meeting between Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar in Islamabad has highlighted the...

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AI must learn to speak the language of the people—II

In partnership with LUMS and with support from the Gates Foundation, our Office of AI Delivery Unit is piloting Awaaz-e-Sehat, an AI-powered maternal...

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Deceptive oversight

Chief Minister Punjab seems to be very vibrant and taking initiatives to improve civic situation in order to facilitate people of Punjab in many areas...

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Extrajudicial killings: When law becomes casualty

THE legitimacy of a criminal justice system is not measured by how severely it punishes the guilty, but by how faithfully it upholds the law, even in...

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AI offers new opportunities, but misuse raises concerns

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most remarkable technological developments of the modern era, creating unprecedented...

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AI Must learn to speak the language of the people—I

Reflections from Seoul on the Future of Inclusive AI My recent engagements with the global AI community, most recently in Seoul, South Korea, have...

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A girl on two wheels….

SHE put on her helmet, turned the key and chose independence. Then, a man with a fragile ego tried to beat her back into the shadows. Here is why the...

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Cost-of-living crisis

THE cost of living is not merely measured through economic indicators but by the food left in the shopping bag, the fuel left in the motorcycle tank...

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Advancing Evidence-Informed Public Health Policy Through Knowledge Synthesis and Translation

Pakistan produces a great deal of health research, but very little of it reaches the people who make decisions. At the 16th Annual International...

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The looming threat of global water insecurity

IMAGINE living in a world, where one half of the population is striving to reach other planets and have made technological advancements well beyond...

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The UN at eighty: A crisis of credibility

SOON after the devastating Second World War, which buried the League of Nations under its debris, the victorious powers established the United Nations...

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Excavating Nostalgia from above clouds

IT was a beautiful moonlit night, ideal for night flying at PAF Base Masroor, Karachi. The month was October in the year 1990. I was a Squadron Leader...

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We Gave Our Daughters Names, Not Rights

We Gave Our Daughters Names, Not Rights

We give our daughters the names of Islam’s greatest women, yet deny them the rights those women stood for. Let me introduce you to a woman some of...

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Maldives president, CDF Munir stress importance of strengthening defence cooperation

Maldives president, CDF Munir stress importance of strengthening defence cooperation

20 MoUs signed; PM Shehbaz vows to strengthen Maldives ties for "all time to come".

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Maldives president, CDF Munir stress importance of strengthening bilateral defence cooperation

Maldives president, CDF Munir stress importance of strengthening bilateral defence cooperation

Maldives president, CDF Munir stress importance of strengthening bilateral defence cooperation Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army...

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Donor transitions: Building national ownership in Pakistan

THE shifting landscape of international development assistance marked by recalibrated bilateral aid portfolios, including USAID programs and a...

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Radio Pakistan: Voice of the nation

RADIO Pakistan, which came into existence amidst emergence of Pakistan on August 14, 1947, is rightly described as the “mother of broadcasting in...

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Growing cooperation between Pakistan-South Korea

PAKISTAN and South Korea have agreed to further strengthen their bilateral cooperation in different fields including trade, commerce, power...

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A resilient transition

“A nation’s strength—not gold but only men can make a people great and strong.” AS Pakistan navigates turbulent times, its citizens are...

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In LaLa Land, Dollars Are Mangoes

There is no national sovereignty without economic sovereignty, and economic sovereignty is a series of decisions about purchases, and whether they...

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Azma questions Fazl’s reluctance to call TTP a terrorist organisation

Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Azma Bokhari has said that public welfare remains at the heart of the provincial government’s...

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Gated Enclaves, Broken Cities: The Real Price of Pakistan’s Property Boom

How unregulated real estate expansion, regulatory capture, and horizontal urban development are commercializing basic public goods while accelerating...

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Pakistan Is Spending Blind

Pakistan’s debt problem is usually told as a story about borrowing. It is just as much a story about not knowing. Official figures differ by...

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A compromising position..!

AT JFK in New York he stood in line like everybody else. Getting into the aircraft, he moved aside to let a lady pass, even giving her a courteous...

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Karsaz Tragedy — The Historic Return of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and the Immortal Sacrifices of the Jiyalas for Democracy

October 18, 2007, was not merely a date in history. It was one of the darkest days in Pakistan’s political history, when hundreds of Pakistanis who...

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Field Politics of Convenience?

If there is one personality in Pakistani politics who has maintained the blend of religion, politics, and power for the longest time, it is Maulana...

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Pakistan to assume chairmanship of IMF, World Bank boards in 2027

Economic Affairs Minister Ahad Khan Cheema named incoming chair of IMF, WBG governor boards; Pakistan to assume chairmanship for the first time since...

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Govt raises petrol price by Rs1.20 per litre, reduces high-speed diesel rate by Re0.17 per litre

Following the revision, petrol will retail at Rs393.86 per litre, while HSD will cost Rs396.65 per litre.

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Lifeline or liability? The state of blood safety in Pakistan

BLOOD is considered a safest health commodity as it is carefully collected, tested, stored and administered in blood banks. Blood banks are essential...

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TEI: A blueprint of economic diplomacy for Pakistan

BEYOND driving direct foreign trade, trade expos stimulate regional Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) tourism, turning...

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Emergency in KP: A Matter of National Security

The debate over the imposition of Governor’s Rule and an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is being framed primarily as a political issue, but the...

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Petrol price down by Rs2.93 per litre, high-speed diesel's rate up by Re0.61

Following the revision, petrol will retail at Rs395.37 per litre, while HSD will cost Rs396.85 per litre.

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The Economist’s Fallacy: Smaller Provinces Do Not Break Nations

It is the hoarding of power not its devolution that endangers a federation. The Economist has dressed an old political suspicion in the sophisticated...

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Losing control of ourselves..!

WE hear of accidents happening because a car, bus or truck went out of control right? Maybe brakes failed, or too high a speed or a sudden pothole!...

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Growing water crisis

THE State of Global Water Resources 2025 published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) provides a comprehensive assessment of global...

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Degrees without skills

UNDENIABLY, in Pakistan, a degree has become a piece of paper rather than a passport to a promising future. Thousands of youth graduate every year...

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Generation Z & pursuit of balance

THE first and fundamental lesson of human history is that every emerging era carries its own unique temperament, societal demands and distinct way of...

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PTI at a crossroads

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is once again on the road. Thousands of PTI supporters have begun a long march towards Islamabad, demanding the release...

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Govt reduces petrol price by Re0.66 per litre, raises high-speed diesel rate by Re0.52 per litre

Following the revision, petrol will retail at Rs398.30 per litre, while HSD will cost Rs396.24 per litre.

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Strategic Insights

STRATEGIC Insights, authored by Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi, in its four volumes, stands as a significant and thought-provoking contribution to...

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