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The bottom-up view on public opinion
Technology itself is not inherently good or bad; it depends on how it is used
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Reimagining exams in higher education
Cheating has become so normalised in some institutions that it is shrugged off as a cultural reality
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Democratic idealism and tokenism
The absence of checks on power frequently results in corruption, oppression and human rights abuses
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Israeli exceptionalism and Global South
The Bogota declaration called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza
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Hope.exe: critical error
This is only the beginning of the revolution we are witnessing
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Altering Mughal history in Indian textbooks
This is not the first time the BJP-led government has surgically altered school curricula
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Silencing half the nation
When a society begins to value lineage over labour, and control over character, it starts to decay from within
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Pakistan's evolving climate journalism scene
This marks a considerable change from just a decade ago
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Muslim mayors in the secular West: rewriting inclusion
Muslim Americans have progressively entered local politics
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Labour versus capital
The state can play an important role in safeguarding labour
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Campuses without questions
Universities are the testing grounds of democracy, where difference of opinion is not a threat but strength
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Reviving Jirgas: undoing constitutional gains
Proponents of Jirga revival often frame it as a culturally rooted mechanism for community-based dispute resolution
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India's great-power delusions
India believes multipolarity is key to global peace and its own rise
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From maps to minerals
To make the situation worse, India is caught between a two-front dilemma
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Why is Iran despised in USA?
Iran may not have the muscle to defeat Israel, it may not have the means to resist Israeli plans for the region
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BRICS 2025 and the Indian dilemma
Over 30 countries expressed interest in joining BRICS in 2024, either as full members or partners
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Widening diplomatic space for Taliban 2.0
Taliban regime is able to widen diplomatic space and seeking full control of Afghanistan
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Should Pakistan embrace blockchain technology?
Governments around the world are increasingly adopting blockchain technology to power large-scale systems
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Lying to win
The disinformation is expressed by competing parties in opposite directions
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End of 'The End of History'
America experienced 25 years of relatively inclusive growth
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Donald Trump - charismatic or enigmatic?
US President Donald Trump is definitely not an underling or an inferior
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A clarion call for Trump's peace
The ICC's warrants against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant signal accountability for war crimes
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Remembering CM Naim
I learned about Tirath Ram Ferozpuri and the early Urdu translations of English detective stories
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The 12-day Iran-Israel war
The killing of 100 innocent Gazans every day by the Israelis cannot be called anything like self-defence
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Gregor Samsa in Pakistan
Rainbound Samsa, to work from home, tried to turn on his laptop, but its battery was stone dead
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Letters to Milena
Kafka suffered from tuberculosis, which he battled for the last decade of his life
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Pakistan — a bit of history to understand the present
The majority of British India's Muslim population was concentrated in two areas
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Gaza carnage and the collapse of legal order
The facts on the ground are irrefutable — over 52,000 Palestinians killed
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Humanisation of warfare
If wars fought in the 21st century are civilisational wars
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Guilty of good?
Societies that genuinely conform to morality invariably and holistically reap the best dividends
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No country for women
We've crashed to 147th - a dismal 22.8% — in economic participation and opportunity
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How France, US and China treat Pakistan?
The French conduct also offers a good glimpse into their inequitable conduct with Pakistan
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Cut it
Celebrity deaths rightfully claim column inches and public attention across the world
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A nation struggling with violence and silence
One legal milestone in May 2025 came when the SHC delivered a landmark ruling in an honour killing case
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Exiled ambitions
We export dreams but if we do not import hope, we will sow despair
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Infinity and God
The mind has the ability to sense so many things within this universe that are not material but abstract
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How doctrine feeds strategy
Their contribution to the total-war effort that the nation had entered was left unattended
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The Red Dress: from bridal couture to therapy and empathy
Your red dress embodies such ideals, yet it surpasses them all with a more profound message
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Climate mitigation cannot ignore local contexts
The dearth of data on climate impacts within the global south also increases reliance on foreign experts
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A blowback of narrative engineering
The crackdown on YouTubers is not a solution; it is a symptom
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Military notes of Indo-Pak conflict: inferences and conclusions
The cost of the crisis for India is almost 7.5 times higher than for Pakistan
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The Quranic ethics for defending truth
This dynamics echoes the classical problem known as motivated reasoning
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Inside American mosques
American mosques are profitable corporations, they don't pay any taxes
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How cryptocurrency can rescue real estate in Pakistan
Real estate, despite its immense value, remains largely informal
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The red sky of Muharram
Muharram returns each year to strip away the illusions.
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Professors of Practice: a missing link
A Professor of Practice is not necessarily a traditional academic.
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Prioritising people
The true measure of a nation is how it treats its people.
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When a physician speaks poetry
They glowed with the conviction that science must always serve the soul
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PTI's political dilemma - between hope and realpolitik
The arrest of Imran Khan triggered spontaneous protests across the country
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Indo-Pak stand-off
Trump had initially ruled out any US role in defusing the Indo-Pak tension