Opinion

US historically has been bigger than an empire; it has been a superpower that aimed to rule all over the world

Water security depends equally on how countries manage resources within their own borders

Treaties don't fail in a single breach; they cannot stand the accumulation of small doubts each member state develops

Elon Musk and a bunch of other white supremacists have a common whine about immigration into the western society

Corruption in the Military ranks, like all organs of any State, is not unique to any specific country

This July added another entry to a growing list of uncomfortable international assessments about Pakistan

Pakistan's gemstone sector has never lacked promise

BLA and affiliates have launched 181 terrorist attacks in Balochistan in 2026

President Xi's speech on March 15, 2023, announcing the initiative, revolved around one fundamental question

Way of thinking has become increasingly important in world shaped by AI, automation, big data, digital technologies

It is quite surprising to see that local assemblies and leaders let government make these changes without any impunity

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Markers include speaking at higher decibels, palpitations of heart and panting breath

While colour of the skin does matter in the way nations interact with another, it is not a defining characteristic

Mere cosmetic changes will not fix a system whose structure was designed for an agrarian economy

Policies mentioned in the document oftentimes raise more questions than answers

Competitive advantage is often operational, not technological

True Frankenstein lesson is that extraordinary powers, once created, rarely remain confined to their original purpose

Our cockroach system sustained by bureaucrats, clergy, soul-selling members of intelligentsia, media, feudal

Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) called it a 'destruction of our sovereignty'

Fast trials begin after the harm

None of this suggests civilian harm can be excused as an unavoidable cost of war

World Bank, the largest provider of MDB climate finance for developing countries

Health spending remains below 1% of GDP, more than 47% of health spending is paid out of pocket by families

Global EV market of 2026 is very different from the one envisioned when Pakistan's policy was introduced in 2019

What began as a formal academic relationship with a Professor, gradually evolved into a profound mentorship

How can Pakistan then hope to bring peace to people who each have their own reasons to fight and endure

Let's scan the 'grievance landscape'

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Our immediate neighbourhood reflects this troubling reality

Every society carries folklore, myths and religious traditions

There is a sinister duplicate of that aspect in the world of politics

Qudratullah Shahab portrayed Siddiqi memorably in Shahab Nama

Conflicts involve at least two opponents

None of this was Iran's doing. Nor was it solely the responsibility of the US

Artificial intelligence can retrieve information, but it cannot replace wisdom

Italian involvement with the mountains of Pakistan is not limited to scaling the highest peaks

Ensuring water supply for the growing population has always been, and remains, a fundamental necessity

Russia-Ukraine war exposed this transformation

Intrigued by one such email, I responded back to a prospective student and scheduled a zoom call

For decades, enrolment, infrastructure, teacher training, learning outcomes have dominated our educational debate

For almost eight decades the global economic and political systems worked almost flawlessly

For almost eight decades the global economic and political systems worked almost flawlessly

The film Satluj has faced its own political 'encounter' at the hands of the Indian state

Success could have come at a cheap cost if coercive diplomacy had succeeded

No government has had more space to get work done than the present one