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Scam compounds

Scam compounds

Our digitised lives have spawned new forms of slavery.

25.10.2025 100

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A trove of secrets

A trove of secrets

Is Ashley Tellis’s arrest part of a crackdown on experts that the Trump administration sees as having divided loyalties?

18.10.2025 100

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Colonial summit

Colonial summit

Everest ascents reflect a colonial heritage.

11.10.2025 100

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Greta vs Malala

Greta has shown that humanity still exists.

04.10.2025 200

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MAGA vs MIGA

Many Indians supporting Modi believed their country would be the next superpower.

27.09.2025 100

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Immigrant and art

It’s a travesty that Anila Agha’s work hasn’t been shown in Pakistan.

20.09.2025 80

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A killing in US

Kirk was a poster boy for Christian nationalism.

13.09.2025 100

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Blood moon

Sunday’s eclipse will make for a haunting spectacle.

06.09.2025 100

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The end of soft power

One reason soft power may have died is that the biggest bet that the US had placed on its use failed.

30.08.2025 200

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Big, bad rain

Without doubt, Karachi residents rose to the occasion.

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Luxury work visa

The anti-H-1B visa camp has swung into action.

16.08.2025 80

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All influencers now

Influencer content is hardly real.

09.08.2025 90

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Common playbook

India and Israel are starting to feel the effects of their wrongdoings.

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Common playbook

India and Israel are starting to feel the effects of their wrongdoings.

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Unesco without US

Contributing to Unesco reveals what soft power can do.

26.07.2025 100

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Better alone

Humaira Asghar Ali’s case is more fundamentally about how Pakistani society treats women who choose paths that diverge from

12.07.2025 100

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Tools of our tools

We must cultivate healthier digital habits.

05.07.2025 200

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New York City speaks

One of the main reasons why Mamdani’s win has been shocking is that NYC is home to the largest population of American Jews

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Narrative dominance

The battle for narrative is being fought virtually.

21.06.2025 100

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All hail the king

Over 1,600 protests are expected against Trump’s military parade.

14.06.2025 100

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Male entitlement

Misogyny is a national sport in Pakistan.

07.06.2025 100

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US visa hell

In the long term, the damage will be to America itself.

31.05.2025 80

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AI and the UAE

Pakistanis should worry about AI’s move to the Gulf.

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Humour on the battlefield

All sorts of upheavals have created a national understanding that worrying at the individual level simply does not matter.

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Keep calm, carry on

War is the ultimate disruption in human life.

10.05.2025 100

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Cartels and consumers

While the CCP has certainly exercised its power to impose necessary fines on cartels, it has had much less luck in recovering them

03.05.2025 100

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India must buy

When J.D. Vance visited India, he knew he had to deliver for his boss.

26.04.2025 100

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The freedom to fly solo

Women in Pakistan grow up surrounded by the critical and toxic perspectives of everyone around them.

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Tariff turmoil

The current situation may present an opening.

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Victory for women

Women challenging patriarchal customs are reshaping legal boundaries and reclaiming long-denied inheritance rights.

05.04.2025 100

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Targeting visa holders

The Trump administration has weaponised the fact that visas can be taken away without any explanation.

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A different reality

Enterprising individuals are creating and presenting content that is different from what is on television.

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Deportation nation

The Trump administration can effectively ‘disappear’ its political opponents who are not US citizens.

15.03.2025 90

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Against women

The resentment that many Pakistani men feel towards women who demand their rights and refuse to submit is palpable.

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The resentment that many Pakistani men feel towards women who demand their rights and refuse to submit is palpable.

08.03.2025 100

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Rise of far right

This new Europe is uninterested in equality or human dignity.

01.03.2025 100

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Bromance on the brink?

Despite the support for Trump, the right-wing Hindutva establishment that props up Modi was essentially given a scolding.

22.02.2025 100

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Bureaucracy issues

It is hard to keep political appointees from destroying institutions.

15.02.2025 200

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Rest in peace, USAID

It seems every executive order from Trump is intended to change the landscape of the bureaucracy.

08.02.2025 100

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DeepSeek revolution

Grit and ingenuity can often trump throwing enormous amounts of money at everything.

01.02.2025 200

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Trump’s new world

It is undoubtedly going to be a new world under Donald Trump.

25.01.2025 100

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Misery theatre

Why do we allow an emotional connection to be formed with those we do not personally know?

15.01.2025 100

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The new colonisation

THE world already knows about the outsize role that the richest man in the world — billionaire Elon Musk — played in the 2024 American presidential...

08.01.2025 100

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Tech lords of the world

THIS past weekend, rumours were flying around that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was hosting a $600 million wedding to his fiancée Lauren Sanchez in...

01.01.2025 6

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Days of rage

LAST week, Saudi-German psychiatrist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen drove his car into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg. The market was...

25.12.2024 10

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The spell that spaces cast

WHEN the Catholic armies entered the city of Granada in Spain in the late 15th century, they also took over Alhambra, the palace-fortress complex...

18.12.2024 30

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Hooked on artificial intelligence

WHAT if you could tell all your life problems to someone and they would help you deal with them? While most of the conversation around artificial...

11.12.2024 20

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‘Thingification’

IT is another world — quite literally. Nasa has been releasing footage taken by rovers on the surface of Mars. Among the most striking clips is one...

04.12.2024 20

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On coercive control

IT is not news anymore that women live in a moment where male anger and violence is a constant threat. Everywhere in the world, women are being...

27.11.2024 10

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Weighed down by urban atrocities

IF the smog is poisoning Lahore, it is perpetual neglect that plagues Karachi. Over the course of the past decades, the original portion of the...

20.11.2024 10

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