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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man: Francis Bacon

Each shared photo is not just a tribute to an individual mother, but a contribution to a wider cultural gallery

Ask the Iranians, and they will entirely endorse the claim

Outrage seems to depend on where those children live and who is doing the bombing

Support for Israel in an intrinsic part of being an American

FPSC's examiners using controversial methods of discouraging students from opting for optional subjects in CSS exam

The Pakistan-mediated peace effort has hit roadblocks

Pakistan is working hard to balance its relationships with competing global powers

A girl who stays in school is far less likely to be married young

India suspending the Indus Waters Treaty isn't just political — it's a slow-burn food crisis

An English newspaper is an unofficial academy for millions

When official reality drifts from reality itself, democracy hollows out

Discretionary federal grants have replaced rule-based fiscal transfers, which KP calls unconstitutional

AI won't fix Pakistan's environmental crisis, could make the governance failures visible

Every street scanned playing Pokémon Go may now guide an autonomous weapon

Pakistan's publishing world is dying with copyright theft, loadshedding, 100 books sold a year

The killing of Mashal Khan in 2017 exposed the dark side of campus political culture

CPEC-2 would give China sea access through both Pakistan's Gwadar and Iran's Chabahar ports

Pakistan's response showed that military balance cannot be measured through budgets alone

For centuries, mothers have shaped families, communities and entire nations

BJP has a replicable model now. Other states dominated by regional parties should take note

Control without prosperity is the one thing no hybrid system can spin its way out of

When constitutional guarantees feel hollow, national belonging starts to quietly come apart

From divine right to democracy, the machinery of compliance has never really gone away

Despite Trump's disruptions, Australia's strategic bond with the US remains firmly intact

Societies that stop believing problems can be solved begin treating them as events to be priced

True scientific literacy means knowing how science works, not just what science knows

Pakistan cannot borrow its way to prosperity, nor tax its way out of a productivity crisis

Do we, as a country, truly understand what a postdoctoral fellowship is?

Studies persistently flag technical expertise as one of most crippling bottlenecks in Pakistan's climate governance

It is about recognising that no tradition can remain strong if it refuses to grow

Must combine water storage efforts with floodplain protection, ecosystem restoration, urban rainwater harvesting

Pakistani generosity and hospitality are finally reaching the limelight

Trump gets impeached, there is noise; Trump is attacked, nobody bats an eye

Every war, involving newer weapons, strategies, concepts, redefines warfighting, but laws of warfare remain unchanged

Marka-e-Haq was the moment that the see-saw was levelled

Installed generation capacity has grown significantly; main challenge is the ability to transmit, distribute

Judges are not above the society that shaped them; what a society normalises, courtrooms enforce

Over 9m Pakistanis face 'crisis' conditions, another 1.7m are in the 'emergency' category in terms of food deficiency

Nearly 40% of children in Pakistan are severely malnourished and have lower IQ levels

Pakistan is redefining the significance of mediation in a transitional phase of the changing world order

Education can never be separated from character building

In today's era, big powers use diplomacy as a tool to regulate war rather than resolve it

Desire to find seek opportunities exploited, by unethical practices, offering dubious advice at an astronomical price

Recession, stalemate, or diplomacy

The daughter-in-law waits for her husband to rescue her from the grip of her mother-in-law, but the son does not