TODAY’S PAPER | August 01, 2026 | EPAPER

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  • Help, I’m being impersonated!

    I receive a follow-up comment to a post by Asif criticizing me for slamming his article on an independent blogging site.The only problem is, I have no idea who Asif is and have not read his blog post or visited the site in question.

  • The relationship paradox

    Are people in relationships happier than those who are single? Many of my friends were happy when their relationships started but now just a few years after getting married, they are miserable. According to a psychologist men need to be in a relationship more than women.

  • The right feet and shoes

    Can any of us ever claim to have selflessly placed ourselves in someone else’s position?

  • Looking out for their own

    Supporting Dasti means the prime minister felt no regret in backing someone who had wilfully broken the law

  • What Jamshed Dasti taught our youth

    Politicians have deepened the wedge between morality and politics through their shameless defense of fake degrees. The youth are learning some tertible lessons.

  • Politicising the Shandur Festival

    It is polo in its purest form- but an emerging territorial dispute between Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan has resulted in a boycott of the festival. The Finance Minister of GB has said they do not want to participate as guests in a game taking place in an area that he claimed 'belonged' to them.

  • The good, bad and ugly of Fifa

    During the second half of the World Cup final, we were suddenly jolted by an explosion. I scrambled towards the tree with it's unlikely occupants and clung to an overhanging branch, as people thudded past like a herd of crazed elephants. Soon our lungs were burning with the acrid stench of tear gas. The area where the crowd had been packed cheek by jowl was now deserted.

  • Ethical dilemma of academics

    The recent commotion of parliamentarians having fake degrees is a horrendous scenario compromising every ethical standard in the academia field and it is quite a relief to see many politicians taken to task for that. The idea behind this article is to highlight another area, towards which we’ve almost turned a blind eye: plagiarism.