Opinion

Art functions as transhistorical form of correspondence

Protecting public health should not mean choosing between economic growth, cumbersome regulations

ASCs were created under the Area Study Centres Act No. XLV of 1975 by Parliament to "promote specialised,

Much of India's contemporary political debate can be understood through this clash of visions

Universities therefore carry a special responsibility

Pakistan does talk about divorce, but much of the debate centres on rising divorce and khula cases

Pakistan needs to move away from a project-by-project approach toward a portfolio-based agribusiness investment model

Contrast between the two governance models is increasingly clear

Wearing or not wearing a chadar or burqa is not the issue; it is a personal choice

Several factors can be identified that lead to women's recruitment by separatist outfits

The media fails to recognise that Mir was just a kid like the rest of us who are still stumbling through life

History is, after all, nothing but a pack of tricks we play upon the dead: Voltaire

We are all borrowers in one sense or the other, and our survival cannot be sustained without this reliance

The horror of the PIMS tragedy stayed for about a week, and has now already started to fade

When does a responsibility become a liability - a cruelty to the self?

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Fourteen infants dead - and we are left asking what, exactly, was protecting them

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US and its allies pinned their hopes on democratic outcomes and improving the lives of those they would liberate

System as it exists today is built to survive threats to itself

Rabies is almost invariably fatal once clinical symptoms appear

Since the proposal for new administrative units to address systemic collapse emerged

Geography of this transit triangle makes it particularly vulnerable

System collapse argument took me back to my own ordeal in the same hospital some four and a half years ago

International evidence makes the question difficult to answer affirmatively

People in Pakistan frequently blame the ICC for favouring India

After Pak-Saudi-Turk pact, a direct war between Israel, Türkiye becomes more implausible but Israel needs another war

While the people remain shunned to their dismalness, the strong and the overlords rule in their name

The tech giant enters as a large part of our population is still struggling with the most basic digital skills

Five years on, UN Women reports severe restrictions on their freedom of movement and access to public spaces

Somewhere in Pakistan this week, a university scholar will be made a professor by a piece of paper

Honourable Dr Satyanjal Pandey, Charge'd' Affaires, Indian High Commission, Islamabad. Welcome to Pakistan!

I belong to a generation for whom Jameel Jalibi was not merely a scholar but an institution

In Pakistan, there is a favourite excuse when climate campaigns flop: people just do not care

More than half of newly adopted national AI strategies in 2024 came from emerging economies

Pakistan is approaching an ecological tipping point

Education is a key pillar of social and economic advancement

While there is debate among economists about the exact cause

Islamophobia is when you have an irrational fear that leads to bias, discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes

To opt between them has always been a litmus test to establish the nature of a government's priorities in policymaking

Pakistan-US ties have rarely been short of complications

'An inch of movement is better than a mile of intentions'

Five emerging trends are likely to determine its future

Don't get me wrong here

Pakistan did decentralise after the 18th Amendment, but much of that decentralisation stopped at the provincial tier

The two lives are poles apart and irreconcilable in reality

Punjab CM has expressed disgruntlement over the performance of 'Suthra Punjab' for not achieving its foreseen targets

Taliban government's fifth anniversary celebrations in Kandahar offered a revealing glimpse

Rich and powerful have always had a different relationship with privilege

Agricultural productivity increased, transportation improved and industrial production outpaced previous eras