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Betting abattoirs

Some betting sites profit from death and chaos openly.

14.03.2026 40

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Eye for an eye

Some physical features are stereotyped in history.

24.02.2026 40

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Not a drop to search

Imagine the water consumed in even a day of web searches.

11.02.2026 30

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‘Boy oh boy’

The term has a sinister historical background.

28.01.2026 80

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Drone on

Human development must get most of the profits.

21.01.2026 70

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Doggone morality

Even in jungles, culling is used to maintain natural biodiversity.

26.12.2025 100

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Panni gala

Every other driver with tinted glass flashes an ID.

06.12.2025 50

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Fly by night

Past efforts to privatise do not inspire confidence.

28.11.2025 90

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Making martyrs

It’s strange that martyrdom can be granted to anyone these days.

19.11.2025 50

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Fanfare funerals

There are limits to how far traditions can be stretched.

29.10.2025 60

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Shortcut detour

We still cling to this relic known as ACR.

12.10.2025 50

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Red carpet & flags

Not owning our cultural heritage has dimmed our worldview.

19.09.2025 90

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Ticking Titanic

Before 2010, we never thought about monitoring our glaciers.

09.09.2025 100

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Fire and attraction

We are all losing our humanity.

22.08.2025 60

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Tunnel vision?

The influence of ‘Bahishti Zewar’ abides.

06.08.2025 90

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Don’t bank on it

Nothing has changed for the clients of the banking system.

27.07.2025 40

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Incendiary water

Why can’t we, the people, bring ourselves to conserve water?

15.07.2025 100

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Lives in limbo

Have we lost all faculties to empathise without judgement?

28.06.2025 50

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Dumb gets dumber

The love of language is an acquired taste.

17.06.2025 100

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Pound for pound

Let us focus on nurturing Einsteins.

01.06.2025 60

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Shankar kebab

The more one travels towards Chitral, the deeper the civilisational imprint gets.

10.05.2025 50

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Fistful of water

We need hydropower experts and legal wizards in international law.

30.04.2025 70

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Taxilas no more

That knowledge is power is not lost on conquerors.

14.04.2025 70

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Unequal music

It was another age when hands reached out for radio dials instead of cellphones.

25.03.2025 40

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Chandni Chowk pips

Unlike us, Burkina Faso has its priorities straight.

12.03.2025 60

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Commuted sentence

Long traffic snarls make one wonder about the purpose of the state.

25.02.2025 70

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‘Caste’ in iron

Class, it seems, is both a divider and a unifying force.

15.02.2025 60

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Cloud cuckoo land

Four years of a vindictive presidency can be daunting.

30.01.2025 40

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Peanut gallery

One of Chakwal’s most famous sons was born in a small village named Gah.

11.01.2025 60

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Pardon the poultry

SURPRISINGLY, while we have cherry-picked parts of globalisation like Black Friday sales and Valentine’s Day celebrations, we have yet to get on to...

30.12.2024 4

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