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Bhutto's paradoxes
Bhutto rose to prominence during the waning years of Ayub Khan's "technocratic" dictatorship
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Gaza, Israel and the infinite game
This is something we experience in real life, in business and in politics — players come and go, and the game goes on
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Of 'unblossomed flowers' and some woodwork
A kind of stillness usually pervades your works, a silence that shouts
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How the attack on Iran has damaged NPT
Iran has other sources of energy, it wants to reduce reliance on fast-depleting oil and gas reserves
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Sanctuaries of violence!
Pakistan's seminary landscape is vast and largely unregulated
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Sino-US rivalry — collusion, competition, conflict
China is heavily dependent upon fuel imports
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The children we sacrifice
One in every two children under five is malnourished
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Americans serving in IDF should lose US citizenship
Snowden did not share intelligence collection methods, other details
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India's 'more options' ICBMs
The intense bombing damaged Iran's nuclear facilities but not beyond repair, as per the IAEA
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Geo-economics of trade and development
Together, the US and EU account for nearly 43 per cent of global GDP and 30 per cent of global trade
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A moment of opportunity: supercharging clean energy age
Developing countries are being left behind
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India's peacock parade: a march into regional instability
India's prestige-driven model of strategic ambition creates a security dilemma within the region
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Sino-Russian cooperation and the world order
US still dominates the world economic, military and technological order
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Lawless digital dreams
IT exports have crossed three billion dollars in just ten months
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Break down your social standing
To "break down your social standing" today is not to expose the illusion, it's to acknowledge the effort
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The environment of evil
Some may say that honour killings are not just a Pakistan issue
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Jinnah foresaw a grim future for Pakistan
History has proved Jinnah was right
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The world's two demographic problems
Canada has gone full circle from encouraging immigration to discouraging it
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Every man now an island
Nobody noticed the deafening silence of a human being so active on the virtual platforms
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What I saw in China
China's economy grew by an average 10 per cent annually for three consecutive decades
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Selling misinformation
Such broad definitions are ripe for abuse
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The bottom-up view on public opinion
Technology itself is not inherently good or bad; it depends on how it is used
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Reimagining exams in higher education
Cheating has become so normalised in some institutions that it is shrugged off as a cultural reality
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Democratic idealism and tokenism
The absence of checks on power frequently results in corruption, oppression and human rights abuses
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Israeli exceptionalism and Global South
The Bogota declaration called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza
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Hope.exe: critical error
This is only the beginning of the revolution we are witnessing
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Altering Mughal history in Indian textbooks
This is not the first time the BJP-led government has surgically altered school curricula
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Silencing half the nation
When a society begins to value lineage over labour, and control over character, it starts to decay from within
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Pakistan's evolving climate journalism scene
This marks a considerable change from just a decade ago
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Muslim mayors in the secular West: rewriting inclusion
Muslim Americans have progressively entered local politics
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Labour versus capital
The state can play an important role in safeguarding labour
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Campuses without questions
Universities are the testing grounds of democracy, where difference of opinion is not a threat but strength
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Reviving Jirgas: undoing constitutional gains
Proponents of Jirga revival often frame it as a culturally rooted mechanism for community-based dispute resolution
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India's great-power delusions
India believes multipolarity is key to global peace and its own rise
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From maps to minerals
To make the situation worse, India is caught between a two-front dilemma
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Why is Iran despised in USA?
Iran may not have the muscle to defeat Israel, it may not have the means to resist Israeli plans for the region
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BRICS 2025 and the Indian dilemma
Over 30 countries expressed interest in joining BRICS in 2024, either as full members or partners
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Widening diplomatic space for Taliban 2.0
Taliban regime is able to widen diplomatic space and seeking full control of Afghanistan
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Should Pakistan embrace blockchain technology?
Governments around the world are increasingly adopting blockchain technology to power large-scale systems
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Lying to win
The disinformation is expressed by competing parties in opposite directions
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End of 'The End of History'
America experienced 25 years of relatively inclusive growth
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Donald Trump - charismatic or enigmatic?
US President Donald Trump is definitely not an underling or an inferior
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A clarion call for Trump's peace
The ICC's warrants against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant signal accountability for war crimes
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Remembering CM Naim
I learned about Tirath Ram Ferozpuri and the early Urdu translations of English detective stories
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The 12-day Iran-Israel war
The killing of 100 innocent Gazans every day by the Israelis cannot be called anything like self-defence
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Gregor Samsa in Pakistan
Rainbound Samsa, to work from home, tried to turn on his laptop, but its battery was stone dead
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Letters to Milena
Kafka suffered from tuberculosis, which he battled for the last decade of his life
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Pakistan — a bit of history to understand the present
The majority of British India's Muslim population was concentrated in two areas
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Gaza carnage and the collapse of legal order
The facts on the ground are irrefutable — over 52,000 Palestinians killed
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Humanisation of warfare
If wars fought in the 21st century are civilisational wars