When the Cup Cracks, the University Follows
In Japan there is an art called kintsugi. When a fine ceramic bowl shatters, no one throws it away. Instead, the fragments are rejoined with lacquer dusted in…
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Opinion
CUT OFF AND TRAPPED: WHEN A STATE GOES TOO FAR
There is something deeply painful about watching a country turn its own roads into barriers against its own people. A bridge that once carried…
Custodians or Owners: Inside Pakistan’s Data Protection Vacuum
By Falak Naz Batool In this digital era, most people in Pakistan remain unaware that their names, credentials, phone numbers, and fingerprints are not…
AI: A threat or opportunity for Pakistan
We live in an era of technology where the AI race has become a global race. In Pakistan, we often hear that AI will…
THE TIGHTROPE ACROSS THE CHASM: EXECUTING THE MECCA PACT
History is a cruel taskmaster. It does not allow a statesman to rest upon one victory before pushing him toward the edge of another…
Petrol Relief Scheme: Providing Economic Support to the Common Man
Government’s Special Fuel Relief Package Brings Financial Support to Millions of Citizens By: Khurram Shahzad At a time when rising prices are placing considerable…
Petrol Relief Scheme: Providing Economic Support to the Common Man
At a time when rising prices are placing considerable pressure on household budgets, initiatives aimed at reducing the financial burden on ordinary citizens hold…
The Meticulously Crafted Trap
The situation in the Gulf has grown steadily clearer of late, and with it the realisation that neither Israel nor its principal patron, the…
THE TAX IN EVERY LITRE
Today, September 22, 2026, petrol in Pakistan costs Rs393.75 per litre and high speed diesel costs Rs422.08. Petrol has risen by Rs4.61 in the…
Global turmoil & local relief: A decision in favour of the poor
By Ihsan Narejo At a time when the entire world is caught in the grip of an economic crisis, tensions between the United States…
The Court of Time, the Bystander, and the Anatomy of Complicity
Human civilization has spent millennia perfecting the architecture of accountability. We build our courts behind walls of dressed stone and marble, framing them with…
THE NOWHERE GENERATION
Pakistan’s young people are facing a future with opportunities shrinking at both ends. There is not enough space for them to build a life…
The Algorithm Loop
We have entered an era where the importance of a piece of news is decided not by its truth, but by how many people…
THE ENDURING BOND – WHY PAKISTAN-CHINA ‘IRON BROTHERHOOD’ REMAINS A MODEL FOR REGIONAL STABILITY
Before entering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, I saw Jamia Masjid Salahuddin Ayubi on my right. I turned the steering wheel right and stopped near the masjid.…
Role of Chinese assistance in Pakistan’s Pharma Industry
Chinese continuous investment in pharmaceutical industries’ innovation, research, bioengineering, successful vaccine development especially during Covid-19 pandemic, and latest manufacturing has resulted the China in…
Death of Deep Reading and the Rise of Pseudo-intellectuals
By Prof. Dr. Umer Farooq I remember the days when people of our generation- Gen X, generally defined as those born between 1965 to…
New provinces, a strong Pakistan
Pakistan is a federal state where different regions, languages, cultures, and geographical features hold their own importance. At the time of Pakistan’s creation, the…