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Revolution? No thanks
By igniting hope for revolution, they kill the people's instinct for the same
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Financial freedom is the real fairytale
Parents spend fortunes on weddings
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Unrest: the cost of bad governance
Unprecedented levels of violence in Balochistan since July 6 should be deeply worrying
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Our good place
The series that fits this country's history, and my lived experience, like a glove is The Good Place
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Our solar transition needs governance, not just growth
More important question now is not whether solar will continue to grow
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Chosen for what? The moral burden of Abrahamic communities
Few narratives illustrate this better than the Quranic account of Bani Israel in Surah Al-Baqarah
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Global shift
Profit-taking in capitalism has no upper-limit, nor is there any moral code that it won't breach in this pursuit
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Déjà vu
Terrorism is akin to softening the battlefield before a full-on assault in the shape of an insurgency
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The architecture of inequality
Findings reveal a striking concentration of income and wealth
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Greater Israel, an unfinished war and Pakistan's balancing act
International relations theory has a reasonably settled answer to why this keeps happening
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Middle East's new security paradigm
Despite negative reactions in the Arab/Muslim world for lack of progress on the core issue of Palestine
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Invest in education
Many girls lack opportunities to complete education from the primary to the higher level
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A data policy without a spine
Pakistan's policy has no equivalent, and it does not pretend otherwise
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The grief of Karbala
Karbala is remembered as a story of courage
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Parliamentary privileges and democratic conventions
Institutional privileges meant to protect the independent functioning of the Legislature are essential
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After the oath, G-B waits for governance
PPP has finally formed government after a post-election arithmetic lesson that kept everyone entertained
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The myth of technology objectivity
Like people across the globe, I too have been afflicted by the football world cup fever
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Teacher licensure: reform or red tape?
Teaching should not be treated as casual employment
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Pakistan's universities are solving yesterday's problem
What is increasingly scarce is students' sustained attention towards studies, and the quality of instructional design
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The limits of coercion - a superpower reckoning
Coercion has been the primary tool of statecraft throughout President Donald Trump's second term up until this point
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Scam trafficking - a double criminality
Scam trafficking, also called trafficking for forced criminality or pig butchering trafficking
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Iran War: the need for a political framework
The challenge is no longer to achieve a ceasefire, but to create a political framework
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How should Pakistan respond to Indian terrorism? There's a way
In the May 2025 conflict our conventional capability inflicted serious pain on the Indians
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I know Islamabad's latitude; I don't know my own address
Beyond that, it demands that children memorise the exact height of every mountain in Pakistan
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Balochistan's faultlines and external exploiters
Continued trajectory of violence reminds us of two unavoidable phenomena that Balochistan faces
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Nothing invented here
Ask our businesses about falling exports and they blame the usual suspects
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Imran Khan and the discipline of leadership
Khan expanded the political imagination of millions and demonstrated the mobilising force of narrative leadership
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What tragedies reveal
Pakistan has debated why millions of children remain out of school
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Rethinking land acquisition in South Asia
Pakistan's framework remains administratively driven, centralised, heavily dependent upon district revenue authorities
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The dilemma of underage social media use
Social media was once celebrated as the great equaliser of the digital age
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Material truth and civic canvas: new sovereign of contemporary art
Recent data from Pakistan's top art schools show greater diversity in class, gender and ethnicity
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Climate cuts in the age of looming ecological crises
Climate Ministry's development allocation also raises questions about emergent policy priorities
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Iran - avoiding bluster, bravado and bombast
Towards war and continued economic ruin, or a compromised peace under Reformists
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Beyond the ME war: a new world order takes shape
For more than three decades after the Cold War, the global order rested largely on American primacy
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How the development industry stifled our grassroots
Erosion began with the quiet triumph of market-induced individualism over collectivist solidarity
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A corrupt FIFA is a reflection of a larger problem
Some people allege that FIFA has to support Messi because both are sponsored by a famous brand
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Aarthi - an exploiter or a facilitator
Not content with the profits on buying and selling
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Invest in people
We have become extraordinarily skilled at commemorating international days
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Feeding girls to predators!
June 2026 has proven to be a new low for Pakistan when it comes to the rape and murder of its girls
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Economic stabilisation without social progress
Persistently high inflation has been a major contributing element to this downturn
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China charts the course for the reform and improvement of global governance
President Xi solemnly put forward the Global Governance Initiative at the SCO Plus meeting
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Pakistan's public investment needs a new compass
Federal PSDP 2026-27, at Rs 1,000 billion, makes the pattern legible in numbers
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Musk's X fuels Western Islamophobia
Mechanics of this digital contagion are as deliberate as they are destructive
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Assignment, revisited
There is much to celebrate in history, art and culture in our midst
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