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Local bodies — forever and ever coming soon
Article 140-A pledges power, provinces keep control
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Muhajir politics
Factional rifts expose MQM-P’s struggle in a changing metropolis
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Why Indian farmers fear the new Indo-US deal
Even limited exposure to subsidised American dairy imports could devastate local producers
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Carbon inequality: why Pakistan takes the heat
Climate justice demands taxing carbon at the top, not the bottom
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Being and Becoming
Does time flow, or is reality a static four-dimensional block?
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Art, culture and the festive February in Lahore
In Lahore, art, dialogue turn February into a season of hope
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Manipur's long road to peace
Ethnic strife in Manipur demands political courage
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Need for an alternative Baloch leadership in Balochistan
Appeasement won’t work; consistent policy and reform might
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No more limits...
With New START gone, nuclear restraint gives way to rivalry
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If America were not a democracy
When wealth shapes policy, elections risk becoming theatre
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Take a breath, Gen Z
Gen Z mirrors G. K. Chesterton’s fence analogy: quick to remove barriers without asking why they exist
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Climate change and sustainable forestry
Species loss, dead rivers, deforestation threaten all life
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Archives are national security: a perspective
Sindh Archives quietly anchors provincial intellectual life, safeguarding documentary heritage, national memory
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The 30-second epiphany: a learner's dilemma in Silicon Age
Socrates' dictum, "An unexamined life is not worth living", wasn't a hackneyed slogan for self-help gurus
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Of opportunity and meaning
Inclusion is not charity
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Balochistan - insurgency to integration
Balochistan’s stability rests on governance, development, and public participation
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Covering Bangladesh vote & the history we still avoid
Tarique Rahman introduced to Pakistani audiences as the son of a decorated Pakistan Army officer, forgetting 1971
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Fixing welfare leaks
Audits suggesting around 141 billion rupees were lost to fraud
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Delhi's dilemma, Islamabad's moment
Outcome of Bangladesh's latest general elections has triggered a recalibration of regional geopolitics in South Asia
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Anatomy of workplace politics in schools
In the workplace politics in educational institutions, nexus currency always demonetises the currency of performance
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Asian lessons for Pakistan
Pakistan should not be looking too far out to draw some important lessons for the design of public policy
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Being Churchill and fighting forever wars
The Trump-Netanyahu meeting was important in the context of a US-Iran deal
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Europe's wake-up call — and Pakistan
For Pakistan, reliability may be the new currency of cooperation
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Healing Khan
Urgency, not rhetoric, is needed in responding to Khan’s condition
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Looking up the sky
Basant’s return restores colour, memory, joy to a weary Lahore
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Policing dissent and democracy
Selective censorship erodes democracy, silences the voices it promises to protect
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With us or against us — again?
US tariff threats make neutrality costly in a polarised world order
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Any consequences for elites' failures?
Governance without accountability is Pakistan’s real energy crisis
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Myth of the rules-based world order
The “rules-based order” bends where power prevails
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The politics of love
Love needs consent, not control, in a society bound by rigid honour codes
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Crumbling elite consensus at Davos
Davos turned from being a venue of private elite negotiation into a theater of power projections
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'Khuda-e-Sukhan'
To read Mir is to read into the ghazal's sorrow, longing
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Terrorism, memory and the politics of simplification
KP’s terror surge demands historical clarity, not political point-scoring
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Child marriage, Sharia and moral responsibility of our time
Islam’s moral logic supports raising marriage age to prevent harm, ensure maturity
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Afghanistan and UN report: beyond denial and blame
Militancy in Afghanistan is a regional problem needing regional solutions
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Insurgency in Baloch areas of Balochistan — way forward
A localised insurgency risks spreading without decisive state action
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How do we treat our heroes?
Selective history weakens nations, honest memory strengthens them
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Rethinking some conspiracy theories
From 9/11 to Epstein, questioning what we call “just a conspiracy”
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Before October 7
Gaza conflict didn't start in 2023; it is rooted in 75 years of dispossession, occupation, systemic blockade
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Esptein files and the global elite
Epstein scandal exposes a "moral bankruptcy" of global elites, a disturbing intersection of impunity
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A silent weapon operating in plain sight
Illicit smokeless tobacco is a "silent weapon" in Pakistan, draining public health
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Exam hall, humour and the psychology of learning
Reframing exams from ordeals to opportunities through wit, empathy, instructions that promote focus
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Colonising of irrigated land and urbanisation of peripheries
Urban expansion, not rural flight, is transforming Punjab’s social landscape
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The PSL blueprint
For six weeks each year, the PSL proves Pakistan can run institutions that work
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Finding harmony
From King Charles to Tawazun, balance is the missing link in sustainability
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Of belief and reform
From the UN to AI, financial comfort can quietly silence the case for change
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Hounded
Dog bites, rabies aren’t just a municipal headache; they’re a constitutional duty that demands sustained policy
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How Pakistan is winning back Bangladesh
In recent months, Bangladesh has taken symbolic, substantive steps that would have been unthinkable not long ago
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Deepening wealth gap
Recent data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reveals widening inequality between rich, poor
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'Free gift'
We don’t write better by writing more; here’s how redundancy sneaks into our English, and how to cut it clean










































