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Half the nation, all the potential: why we must invest in women
Too often, efforts to improve these conditions are framed as welfare initiatives or acts of social compassion
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The astonishing moderation
Robert Clive's career marked the moment when a trading company began transforming into an empire
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From Gulf conflict to kitchen costs
Concerns about shipping routes, particularly around the Strait of Hormuz, have heightened supply interruption fears
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What is the university for?
A teacher's understanding of academic spaces, their purposes
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Let's distribute Eidi of forgiveness
Fasting demands from us the sacrifice of our selfish pursuits
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Revitalising agriculture: prospects and challenges
The widening demand-production gap intensifies food insecurity, forces costly imports
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Celebrating Pakistan-Nordic partnership
Today, the Nordic region is one of the most integrated regions in the world
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A generation on the frontlines of climate disaster
These figures exceeded national averages, pointing toward a deepening child hunger emergency
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Instability in Hormuz and our economic challenges
Nation depends heavily on imported fuels to sustain industrial activity, electricity generation and transportation
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Mission creep amid an elusive off-ramp
Ongoing Iran war has no political aims on either side, save Israel
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The whisper of the thumbprint and the aesthetics of continuity
To modernise the process or the cut is often to erase the history embedded in the drape
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Unrecognised environmental costs of conflict
Destruction unleashed by large-scale wars leads to commensurate levels of environmental damage
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The illusion of learning in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence has made access cheap and immediate
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Democracy and freedom deficit
Global Peace Index 2025 places Pakistan at number 144 out of 163 countries due to the frequency of political upheavals
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Beware of AI in education
Pakistan is deploying AI in education without a dedicated governance policy
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US-Israel folly
Over the decades, Khamenei proved less a transitional figure and more a consolidator of the system
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War next door, dilemma in Islamabad
If the war drags on, chances increase that Pakistan may eventually be forced to pick sides
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The harm-heal line
Led by General Shiro Ishii, Unit 731 tested biological weapons on the Chinese population
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Universities in K-P: from crisis to collapse?
Higher education appears trapped in a recurring cycle of deficit, agitation, bailout, renewed crisis
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Pakistan's economic paradox
The architecture appears capitalist, but the operating culture is relational
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Karachi's affluent enclaves redefine the soul of service
A metabolic exchange where the "wretched of the earth" provide the labour that sustains the elite
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US war on Iran and its larger consequences
Donald Trump has made no serious effort to explain why he chose to launch a large military operation in Iran
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Teacher-student relationship: mutualism, not commensalism
A teacher's expectations of students
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A life of quiet authority and enduring values
The passing of a civil servant, former Vice-Chancellor of Sindh University, has left a profound void
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Iran: when history is written backwards
History tells us that the unintended consequences of going to a war are the real consequences that shape history
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Our own one battle after another
War in the season of Oscars could well be a movie title itself
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India's gamble in a region at war
Within days, Israel and the US launched strikes on Iran, which responded by closing the Strait of Hormuz
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Austerity's hollow veil
Country has responded with a historic 20% hike in fuel prices on existing stocks
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Afghanistan's terrorism noose and borders
SC meeting turned out to be a unanimous call for action on the Taliban
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Fatherland, motherland, slaughterland
By striking Iran, Israel guaranteed that US military bases situated in GCC countries would be retaliated against
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Can we defend ourselves from AI?
Like many transformative technologies before it, AI is a double-edged sword
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The electrostate rises
A country whose international influence is not based on oil and gas, but on dominating clean energy transition
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Nepal's political transition
Nepal's recent elections mark the beginning of a new era of democratic transition
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Beyond military calculations
The conflict between Iran, US-Israel is increasingly producing consequences that go far beyond military calculations
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A new Middle East?
Donald Trump may have set out to change the face of the Middle East by launching the war on Iran
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Helping small farmers move forward
In 2023-24, the agriculture sector grew at 6.25%, the highest increase in two decades
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US-Iran conflict: not just optics
Have alternatives to Western liberalism ever been permitted to evolve in 'neutral' conditions, free from intervention?
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Middle East War — military notes
Can Trump achieve his stated war objectives through air and intelligence operations alone
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Let hope live!
Power sustained by confidence endures; power sustained by control isolates itself from the people it claims to serve
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Israel's breaking bad in USA
Israel is no longer the victim but rather the entity in charge of the American government
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Ramazan as a social reformist: ethical residue of a sacred month
By reducing bodily dominance, fasting refines intellect and conscience, making them more receptive to higher guidance
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A biased report
Civilian protection cannot be meaningfully defended if forces that endanger civilians are left unnamed or unexamined
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Hardened nationalism and nuclear neighbours
In a region of unresolved disputes, nuclear capability, symbolic hardening can raise probability of miscalculation
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A noble death
To understand the true meaning of sacrifice, one must study the life of Imam Ali (AS)
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Women's suffering by men's wars
In a world shaped by patriarchal violence, women carry a disproportionate burden of the aftermath
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Israel's Hexagon of Evil
Israel's Hexagon of Alliances' purpose would be opposing "radical adversaries" in the "Shia Axis" and the "Sunni Axis"









































