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Karakoram 2026: convergence of security and strategic interests
Military exercise aimed at terrorism can carry a message far beyond the training ground
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A fair chance, on whose terms?
Why follow the rules if the rules cannot offer a fair chance?
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Israel's election
Some nations have flawed ballots. Others are cursed to have flawed citizenry
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa - irony and antidote
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa once again is in the eye of the storm
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The science of stability
Economics seeks patterns in the behaviour of countless individual participants
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Delivery test
Three initiatives, if successfully implemented, could become the lasting legacy of his government
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Young and old, leading together
Pakistan has two demographic gifts, a young workforce and a growing number of healthy older people
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Protective custody through the lens of jurisprudence
To what extent is this jargon aligned with the principles of jurisprudence?
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The third country that never was
Hyderabad was no minor state
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Space manufacturing: a new industrial paradigm
NASA has pursued the second model for years under a simple idea
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Japan rebuilt itself; why can't Pakistan?
Japan prioritised educational development alongside economic reconstruction
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Of grief and lines on the map
Peace requires work, and that work often brings up uncomfortable facts, including our ignorance
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Karachi's autumn heat was a warning nobody read
When a city's answer to extreme heat is a private purchase
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Russia: pragmatism not appeasement
Trump's willingness to engage Moscow can contribute to such an outcome
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The perils of sacred politics
Pakistan is no exception
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The reverse renaissance?
People and groups possess a righteousness of their own shade
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'NAZA' and a world in disorder
Cook points to is a world in disorder, propped up by a new form of colonialism
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Vishwa Guru's game
Pakistan was expected to shrug, reasoning that ending statehood did not alter the disputed status
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The paradox of Pakistan's political parties
Imran Khan built much of PTI's political identity around challenging corruption, injustice and entrenched power
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The only thing moving fast in Karachi is my blood pressure
Karachi does not need a traffic police department
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Boiling Europe and the far-right narrative
France's government points to the scale of the violence - with more than 150 officers injured
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The critical minerals war
All this trade war has negatively affected Western and US industries
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Give FBR more than a new name
Pakistan increasingly confuses tax policy with revenue collection
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Pakistan's hunger crisis
Reducing hunger is possible if required political will exists to prioritize food security
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How mega infrastructure is rewriting politics?
Beijing's model has also lately changed
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The irony of non-serious politics
Agitational politics, whipping up youth sentiment, has its obvious pitfalls
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Modi's playbook: deceive, distract, lie and justify
Modi government needs distractions from high unemployment rates in India, corruption, rapes
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Ballot and money
People like Elon Musk need enormous government welfare in the form of subsidies for his companies
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Taliban's unfinished victory
Afghanistan's opposition landscape is becoming more varied
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The anatomy of a hard state
Thomas Hobbes imagined a different world
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Empowering women through academic leadership
Securing the delegation's participation, however, was not straightforward
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Learning poverty
We often cite that 28.2 million school-age children are out of school
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Kala Chapra and Lawrence of Arabia
Colonel TE Lawrence occupies a peculiar place in history
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Democratic values, not technical legalism
Peaceful protest is a democratic right, subject to reasonable restrictions prescribed by law
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A nuclear order sans guardrails & Islamabad's case for talking
Pakistan sits at the centre of that equation
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Rebuilding trust in public health
Question is relevant for so many places around the world in the era of misinformation and massive funding cuts
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Sisyphus in the land of saviours
Saviours make yet another of two groups - the rulers and the ruled - in the country
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The hidden burden of being a man
That encounter stayed with me
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Civilisationalism and the future of the world order
Modern world came to believe that innovation and globalisation had diminished geography's constraints
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Am I brave, or a falsified feminist? Or was it a British insult, sir?
'Brave' can be praise; it can be solidarity. In British usage, depending on the tone
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Hasina's repressive legacy and India conundrum
Such postulations, nevertheless, can hardly disguise a bitter reality
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One nation, one foreclosure
For decades, parliamentary representation remained frozen to reward southern states for controlling their populations


















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