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Shaheens versus BlackCaps: A Nightmare

“We hit more boundaries than them and we bowled more dot balls than them,” Pakistani Coach Azhar Mahmood had exclaimed at the end of the fourth...

28.04.2024 20

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To Friendship…

Promises by Pakistan and Iran’s executive to increase bilateral trade to an ambitious 10 billion dollars might have been music to the ears of those...

26.04.2024 20

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Scandal Peddlers and National Interests

“These are the two countries, Saudi Arabia and the United States, with whose cooperation the regime change operation took place.” “Saudi Arabia...

19.04.2024 10

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Click-Baiting

Kate Middleton has gone missing. The palace is in crisis. Why is artificial intelligence being used to post announcements? Did the future queen of the...

29.03.2024 5

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SIFC: A Game Changer?

The recently-established high-powered body, the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) is seen as a critical player in the economic resurgence...

21.03.2024 200

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A Call for Sanity

Pakistan’s struggles against a tumultuous political climate have long lost the interest of the world around it for one simple reason: there’s no...

12.03.2024 40

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What Next, Madam Chief Minister?

In a country where glass ceilings are the norm and sticky floors, an unavoidable reality, any development that favours women at the expense of men is...

07.03.2024 20

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Elections in Pakistan: An Afterthought

21.02.2024 20

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Election Diary: Post-Elections

It is not every day that a country of over 240 million heads to a nationwide exercise to choose the next set of leaders tasked with the crucial and...

15.02.2024 30

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Election Diary: What’s Next?

Hope tends to lose its path whenever the tunnel gets slightly longer. Therefore, every passing day since the vote of no-confidence added to the...

09.02.2024 10

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Election Diary: Manifestoes and Specially-Abled

That we have miles to go before truly embracing each and every one of us as an integral part of the fabric does not need to be said out loud. But some...

06.02.2024 10

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Election Diary: Women’s Rights

Women’s rights have long been a contentious issue in Pakistan, a country deeply rooted in patriarchal traditions and chauvinistic norms. As the...

04.02.2024 30

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Chaos Followed by Chaos

30.01.2024 10

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Salman Taseer: The Light Shines On

Daring to disagree with Jean De La Fontaine, sadness does not fly away on the wings of time. At least, not always. If the ticking of the clock...

04.01.2024 20

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Water Diplomacy

Timing is everything. So when Kabul decided to send a new message to the international community about control over its water destiny, it had its eyes...

30.12.2023 100

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More Chaos?

An ultra vires declaration of the trial of civilians in military courts in the wake of the May 9 riots by the Supreme Court has opened a new...

01.11.2023 10

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Super Over

The swords have been drawn and the scabbards thrown away. On Monday, a five-member bench of the Supreme Court wrapped up a much-talked-about case...

24.10.2023 20

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Erasing Afghan Women

Do you know what it feels like to be erased? Millions of Afghan woman languish on the last cusp as restriction after restriction is being forced down...

20.10.2023 30

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Superstitions and Damages

One would believe a country where an overwhelming 97 per cent of the population follows Islam, to be de facto cleansed of any and all superstitions. A...

19.10.2023 9

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It’s the Economy!

As a nation accustomed to brief spells of respite followed by stumbling in the dark, dreary tunnel, caution and more caution remain the usual course...

18.10.2023 40

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Focusing on Agriculture

That Pakistan languishes on the edge of a slippery cliff has been written to the point of repetition. With the balance of payment crisis continuing to...

13.10.2023 40

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Delimitation Conundrum

With the country officially entering into the election season, heated newsrooms and social media warriors have added yet another heated buzzword to...

04.10.2023 20

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Chaos and Confusion

There is certainly more to the delay in announcing the schedule of the next round of general elections. Routinely hounded for not giving any hint as...

17.09.2023 20

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