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Support for Israel is an American construct
Support for Israel in an intrinsic part of being an American
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CSS - between merit and luck
FPSC's examiners using controversial methods of discouraging students from opting for optional subjects in CSS exam
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Lessons from US-Iran War - alternative energy
The Pakistan-mediated peace effort has hit roadblocks
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Is Pakistan rising as a middle power?
Pakistan is working hard to balance its relationships with competing global powers
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Child marriage: a persistent form of gender inequality
A girl who stays in school is far less likely to be married young
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Food self-sufficiency - the elephant in the room
India suspending the Indus Waters Treaty isn't just political — it's a slow-burn food crisis
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English newspapers: a pedagogical resource
An English newspaper is an unofficial academy for millions
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Before the roof comes off
When official reality drifts from reality itself, democracy hollows out
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NFC: what K-P wants
Discretionary federal grants have replaced rule-based fiscal transfers, which KP calls unconstitutional
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Can AI help green-leap the sustainability gap?
AI won't fix Pakistan's environmental crisis, could make the governance failures visible
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How games are mapping the next war
Every street scanned playing Pokémon Go may now guide an autonomous weapon
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The ecosystem of the written word
Pakistan's publishing world is dying with copyright theft, loadshedding, 100 books sold a year
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How power, politics and fear reshaped our universities
The killing of Mashal Khan in 2017 exposed the dark side of campus political culture
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China's role in the Middle East
CPEC-2 would give China sea access through both Pakistan's Gwadar and Iran's Chabahar ports
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How Modi's gamble reshaped Pakistan's strategic standing
Pakistan's response showed that military balance cannot be measured through budgets alone
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Trailblazing mothers
For centuries, mothers have shaped families, communities and entire nations
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BJP and West Bengal elections
BJP has a replicable model now. Other states dominated by regional parties should take note
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Punching for people
Control without prosperity is the one thing no hybrid system can spin its way out of
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Gas, hydel and an unfinished constitutional promise
When constitutional guarantees feel hollow, national belonging starts to quietly come apart
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Divine (in)justice?
From divine right to democracy, the machinery of compliance has never really gone away
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Australia, China and Pakistan
Despite Trump's disruptions, Australia's strategic bond with the US remains firmly intact
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Casino at the end of civilisation
Societies that stop believing problems can be solved begin treating them as events to be priced
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More than just science
True scientific literacy means knowing how science works, not just what science knows
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The Malthusian ghost
Pakistan cannot borrow its way to prosperity, nor tax its way out of a productivity crisis
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A fee-paying postdoc at KU? Disturbing drift of our academia
Do we, as a country, truly understand what a postdoctoral fellowship is?
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Pakistan's climate crisis has a degree problem
Studies persistently flag technical expertise as one of most crippling bottlenecks in Pakistan's climate governance
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Pride, reflection and the future of Pashtun identity
It is about recognising that no tradition can remain strong if it refuses to grow
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Multi-dimensional approach needed over water crisis
Must combine water storage efforts with floodplain protection, ecosystem restoration, urban rainwater harvesting
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Pakistan: tea, charity and ceasefire
Pakistani generosity and hospitality are finally reaching the limelight
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Why the silence over Trump's assassination attempts?
Trump gets impeached, there is noise; Trump is attacked, nobody bats an eye
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Lessons from Iran war - warfare and warfighting
Every war, involving newer weapons, strategies, concepts, redefines warfighting, but laws of warfare remain unchanged
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A new equilibrium
Marka-e-Haq was the moment that the see-saw was levelled
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Energy sector: between policy turbulence and system reform
Installed generation capacity has grown significantly; main challenge is the ability to transmit, distribute
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Gender-based violence and our judicial officers
Judges are not above the society that shaped them; what a society normalises, courtrooms enforce
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Odds on national plateau must take precedence
Over 9m Pakistanis face 'crisis' conditions, another 1.7m are in the 'emergency' category in terms of food deficiency
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Lead in children's blood: a silent national emergency
Nearly 40% of children in Pakistan are severely malnourished and have lower IQ levels
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Power of building bridges
Pakistan is redefining the significance of mediation in a transitional phase of the changing world order
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Iqbalian Self: the human answer to the AI challenge
Education can never be separated from character building
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Diplomacy in the age of power politics
In today's era, big powers use diplomacy as a tool to regulate war rather than resolve it
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Big business of bad advice
Desire to find seek opportunities exploited, by unethical practices, offering dubious advice at an astronomical price
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US-Iran war: three scenarios
Recession, stalemate, or diplomacy
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Sickening presence
The daughter-in-law waits for her husband to rescue her from the grip of her mother-in-law, but the son does not
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Bearing the brunt of global disorder
The US-Iran war is hurting the world; no country, rich or poor, large or small, has been spared
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Aid without transformation: Pakistan's recurring dilemma
Since its inception in 1947, Pakistan's economic trajectory has been deeply intertwined with external assistance
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Caught in the Middle
this war, has hit the core of China's Achilles Heel: the disruption and discontinuity of its energy supplies
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May to May
One lesson is most important: how to leverage the May to May military and diplomatic successes
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The aspirant's struggle
Those who succeed owe very little, of their success to coaching systems but coaching academies often take full credit
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Tea old man
After every fuel price hike, every inflation surge, we would return to him asking how life would now change for him
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Terrorism, narratives and Indo-Pak tension
'We must not forget that terrorism has no nationality and no theology'
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From untouchability to disgrace
The politics of Dalits in India is a vast and deeply layered subject





































