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The Afghan Exodus

Among his many other children, 45 years old Bazaar Khan was especially proud of his 5 years old daughter; Shehrbano. Tending to the kitchen garden or...

21.04.2024 30

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By the Jugular

Ask any Pakistani on the street and they would tell you that Pakistan had defeated India in Kargil. It is also an almost unanimous opinion that...

14.04.2024 10

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Pakistan’s Wild West

Recent months have seen tensions along Pakistan’s western borders rise to levels unparalleled in decades. While Pakistan continues to employ the...

31.03.2024 10

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A Gap-Filler Government

Which party exactly has formed the federal government? Is it the PML(N) as its president; Shahbaz Sharif, just took over as the Prime Minster? But...

29.03.2024 5

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Extremism: Where do we stand?

In 1985, during a session of the Senate chaired by Ghulam Ishaq Khan, a point of order was raised by Maulana Kausar Niazi. He waved a copy of the...

03.03.2024 70

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Nawaz Sharif and Power Politics

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who has been active on the political scene of Pakistan for more than four decades, is believed to be heading towards...

25.02.2024 20

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Good Bye Nawaz Sharif?

It was a spring evening in April 1986. The historic Liaquat Bagh of Rawalpindi was teeming with people. Jubilant workers of the Pakistan Peoples’...

18.02.2024 30

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240 Million Ignorants

The fact remains that Pakistan, a country spanning 796,095 square kilometres, currently houses a staggering population of 240 million people. Their...

21.01.2024 40

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Regression of Media in Pakistan

In the mid-1980s, when I stepped into the field of print media, it was just a few months after the long era of General Zia-ul-Haq. Following an...

14.01.2024 90

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The Homicide of PPP

On April 4, 1979, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister, faced the gallows in Rawalpindi’s Central Jail. As the noose tightened around his...

06.01.2024 20

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Caging The Cornered Tiger

On March 11, 1992, Pakistan faced Australia in its famed Cricket World Cup campaign. Pakistan had already lost too many matches and only a win against...

31.12.2023 30

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Options For Imran Khan

February 8, 2024, has finally been announced as the date for General Elections in the country. According to the schedule, today is the deadline for...

23.12.2023 20

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Pakistan’s Political See-Saw

Justice Umar Ata Bandial, the former Chief Justice of Pakistan, strived for several months to ensure the conduct of the country’s general elections....

05.11.2023 20

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Sharif’s Politics & Establishment

This was not the first occasion in November 2016 when Nawaz Sharif, as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, promoted Lieutenant General Bajwa to the...

04.11.2023 20

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What Next, Imran Khan?

After winning the Cricket World Cup in 1992, Imran Khan had a significant purpose in his life: building a cancer hospital in his mother’s name....

29.10.2023 30

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Flushing out refugees

First Scene: It was September 4, 2021, just over two weeks since the Afghan Taliban had seized control of Kabul’s government. In the lobby of...

10.10.2023 30

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Gilgit-Baltistan’s Blasphemy Law Controversy

Global Responses to Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Regarding the background of the mentioned legislation, an article on the website of the U.S. Congress...

24.09.2023 30

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Gilgit-Baltistan’s Blasphemy Law Controversy – I

The Origins of the Latest Dispute On the evening of August 23, 2023, at 5 o’clock, in the Skardu City police station in Pakistan, an FIR (First...

21.09.2023 20

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