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Lie of Honour

Pakistan, June 4 -- There was nothing honourable about the bullet that tore through 17-year-old Sana Yousaf's body in Islamabad. And nothing isolated about a killing that, though it took place in the ... Read More


Karachi Earthquakes

Pakistan, June 4 -- The earth beneath Karachi continues to stir, not with a roar but with a series of unnerving shivers. Nineteen tremors in less than four days, the strongest a modest magnitude 3.6. ... Read More


Development Deserves Better

Pakistan, June 3 -- The Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for 2025-26 has been set at Rs880 billion, reportedly the lowest in four years. This reduction comes at a time when Pakistan requires... Read More


Unlearning the Law

Pakistan, June 3 -- In a city designed to reflect the state's illusion of order, Karachi became the stage for an incident that shattered that illusion. A man-well-dressed, well-armed, and well-connect... Read More


Wasting Gold

Pakistan, June 1 -- There was beauty in the arc of Arshad Nadeem's javelin-86.40 meters of defiance hurled across a stadium in South Korea. For the spectators, it might have seemed like rising against... Read More


Cautious Embrace

Pakistan, May 31 -- There are no full stops in geopolitics, only commas. And, so it is with Pakistan's decision to elevate its diplomatic mission in Kabul to the ambassadorial level. After months of c... Read More


Clearing Katcha

Pakistan, May 31 -- The recovery of a kidnapped child and two men from Sindh's Katcha area offers yet another reminder of a grim, unresolved truth: large swathes of Pakistani territory remain under th... Read More


A New Damascus

Pakistan, May 30 -- The American flag once again flies over Damascus; fluttering not just in the wind, but in the face of history. With that simple act, US Envoy Thomas Barrack reopened the American r... Read More


Cybersecurity Catastrophe

Pakistan, May 30 -- By the time the National Cyber Crime Investigation acknowledged that over 180 million login credentials had been compromised in one of the largest data breaches in Pakistan's histo... Read More


Child Marriage

Pakistan, May 29 -- In rejecting a bill to outlaw child marriage in Islamabad, the Council of Islamic Ideology has once again positioned itself not as a moral guide but as a shield for patriarchal vio... Read More