Hard state, soft citizens
Pakistan can build fighter jets and broker peace deals, but can't stop FIA men from slapping citizens
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The four roads to SPSC
Ali Hassan Bangwar | Updated 8 hours agoThe SPSC's four roads to success: money, connections, more connections, and last, ability
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China visit: growing anarchy and despotism
Muhammad Ali Ehsan | Updated 8 hours agoBoth the US and China will bend rules, shape dependencies and ignore smaller states
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Pakistan's AI push needs good governance
Muhammad Faizan Fakhar | Updated 8 hours agoPakistan is investing $1 billion in AI by 2030 without a governance framework to go with it
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Some children's lives matter more in Western foreign policy
Faisal Kutty | Updated May 15, 2026Outrage seems to depend on where those children live and who is doing the bombing
Trump gets a reality check in Beijing
Imtiaz Gul | Updated May 16, 2026Twelve CEOs flew to Beijing with Trump to court the country Washington spent years calling a threat
Misfortune cookie
Farrukh Khan Pitafi | Updated May 16, 2026When even peace overtures get weaponised, something has gone deeply wrong with the world's politics
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No more bail
Updated 8 hours agoPakistan's 2026 anti-rape amendment finally makes child sexual abuse non-bailable
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Cambridge credibility
Updated 8 hours agoPakistan's Cambridge exam leak isn't just a scandal, but a full credibility crisis
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A burdensome budget
Updated 8 hours agoAusterity for commoners, immunity for elites eating $22 billion a year
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Pragmatic recalibration
Updated May 16, 2026Xi's message to Trump was polite and unmistakable: Beijing's position on Iran and Taiwan won't shift
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Pakistan's AI push needs good governance
Updated 8 hours agoPakistan is investing $1 billion in AI by 2030 without a governance framework to go with it
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The four roads to SPSC
Updated 8 hours agoThe SPSC's four roads to success: money, connections, more connections, and last, ability
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Navigating the great Pakistani family transition
Updated May 16, 2026Material abundance, psychological fragility; Pakistan's children have everything except roots
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Misfortune cookie
Updated May 16, 2026When even peace overtures get weaponised, something has gone deeply wrong with the world's politics
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A nation that reads, leads!
Updated May 15, 2026Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man: Francis Bacon
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Celebrating mothers, curating affections in art
Updated May 15, 2026Each shared photo is not just a tribute to an individual mother, but a contribution to a wider cultural gallery
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Should Iran control Hormuz?
Updated May 15, 2026Ask the Iranians, and they will entirely endorse the claim
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Lessons from US-Iran War - alternative energy
Updated May 14, 2026The Pakistan-mediated peace effort has hit roadblocks
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