Opinion

Bhutto rose to prominence during the waning years of Ayub Khan's "technocratic" dictatorship

This is something we experience in real life, in business and in politics — players come and go, and the game goes on

A kind of stillness usually pervades your works, a silence that shouts

Iran has other sources of energy, it wants to reduce reliance on fast-depleting oil and gas reserves

Pakistan's seminary landscape is vast and largely unregulated

China is heavily dependent upon fuel imports

One in every two children under five is malnourished

Snowden did not share intelligence collection methods, other details

The intense bombing damaged Iran's nuclear facilities but not beyond repair, as per the IAEA

Together, the US and EU account for nearly 43 per cent of global GDP and 30 per cent of global trade

Developing countries are being left behind

India's prestige-driven model of strategic ambition creates a security dilemma within the region

US still dominates the world economic, military and technological order

IT exports have crossed three billion dollars in just ten months

To "break down your social standing" today is not to expose the illusion, it's to acknowledge the effort

Some may say that honour killings are not just a Pakistan issue

History has proved Jinnah was right

Canada has gone full circle from encouraging immigration to discouraging it

Nobody noticed the deafening silence of a human being so active on the virtual platforms

China's economy grew by an average 10 per cent annually for three consecutive decades

Such broad definitions are ripe for abuse

Technology itself is not inherently good or bad; it depends on how it is used

Cheating has become so normalised in some institutions that it is shrugged off as a cultural reality

The absence of checks on power frequently results in corruption, oppression and human rights abuses

The Bogota declaration called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza

This is only the beginning of the revolution we are witnessing

This is not the first time the BJP-led government has surgically altered school curricula

When a society begins to value lineage over labour, and control over character, it starts to decay from within

This marks a considerable change from just a decade ago

Muslim Americans have progressively entered local politics

The state can play an important role in safeguarding labour

Universities are the testing grounds of democracy, where difference of opinion is not a threat but strength

Proponents of Jirga revival often frame it as a culturally rooted mechanism for community-based dispute resolution

India believes multipolarity is key to global peace and its own rise

To make the situation worse, India is caught between a two-front dilemma

Iran may not have the muscle to defeat Israel, it may not have the means to resist Israeli plans for the region

Over 30 countries expressed interest in joining BRICS in 2024, either as full members or partners

Taliban regime is able to widen diplomatic space and seeking full control of Afghanistan

Governments around the world are increasingly adopting blockchain technology to power large-scale systems

The disinformation is expressed by competing parties in opposite directions

America experienced 25 years of relatively inclusive growth

US President Donald Trump is definitely not an underling or an inferior

The ICC's warrants against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant signal accountability for war crimes

I learned about Tirath Ram Ferozpuri and the early Urdu translations of English detective stories

The killing of 100 innocent Gazans every day by the Israelis cannot be called anything like self-defence

Rainbound Samsa, to work from home, tried to turn on his laptop, but its battery was stone dead

Kafka suffered from tuberculosis, which he battled for the last decade of his life

The majority of British India's Muslim population was concentrated in two areas

The facts on the ground are irrefutable — over 52,000 Palestinians killed

If wars fought in the 21st century are civilisational wars