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if there are 100 high school students in country, 5% part of international system, 95% are part of national system

Moving from Karachi to Hyderabad represented a movement from routine academic life toward active participation

There is little political will towards the most important domestic policy issues for uplift and development of society

Reality demands a new approach of partnerships that align public purpose with private capital, innovation

The shortest path from Central Asian gas to South Asian markets runs through Kabul, if allowed

The man who promised to sever ties with China may instead be on the verge of making them impossible to untangle

Nushirvan paid for his salt so petty theft would never become custom; we have long since stopped paying for anything

Trump secured what he called fantastic deals in Beijing, but the details remain as vague as the promises were grand

Pakistan can build fighter jets and broker peace deals, but can't stop FIA men from slapping citizens

Both the US and China will bend rules, shape dependencies and ignore smaller states

Pakistan is investing $1 billion in AI by 2030 without a governance framework to go with it

The SPSC's four roads to success: money, connections, more connections, and last, ability

When even peace overtures get weaponised, something has gone deeply wrong with the world's politics

Twelve CEOs flew to Beijing with Trump to court the country Washington spent years calling a threat

When clerical authority becomes untouchable, religion stops guiding and starts stagnating

Material abundance, psychological fragility; Pakistan's children have everything except roots

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

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

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

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