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Climate Change: The Existential Threat To Pakistan's Food Security

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- Climate change, driven by deforestation, fossil-fuel use and rapid industrialisation, has emerged as an existential threat. The issue of climate change and rising global temperatur... Read More


2100: The Century When Wisdom Learned To Work With Intelligence

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- This essay began, unexpectedly, with a television show. Watching Star Trek, I found myself fixated on a small detail I had seen a hundred times before without really seeing it. The... Read More


Plastic Bags: The Convenience That Chokes Our Cities

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- Plastic bags have become one of the most visible symbols of Pakistan's growing environmental crisis. From clogged drainage systems and polluted canals to contaminated agricultural ... Read More


Pakistan's LNG Paradox: When An Energy Fix Became An Economic Liability

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- Pakistan's energy economy is caught in an unusual contradiction. On one hand, the country has had more liquefied natural gas (LNG) than it could use, forcing it to divert contracte... Read More


Singing Faiz In Dark Times - When The Literal Overshadows The Symbolic

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- If Jacques Derrida was alive, he might have chuckled at the unending controversies over the literal, metaphorical and symbolic interpretations that have lately dogged the poem "Hum... Read More


Beyond The Berlin Wall: What German Unity Means For Pakistan

Pakistan, Oct. 3 -- Every year on 3 October, Germany celebrates the Day of German Unity, marking the formal reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. The occasion commemorates much more than the... Read More


Pakistan's Federal Governance Deficit

Pakistan, Oct. 3 -- Proponents of administrative decentralization routinely attribute state failures to provincial incompetence, yet federal governance reveals an equally precarious structural deficit... Read More


Political Parties' Persistent Failure To Rebuild Civilian Rule

Pakistan, Oct. 3 -- In April 2022, after Imran Khan lost a parliamentary vote of no confidence, Dr. Nadeem Malik, Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, in ... Read More


New Space Race: Why Orbital Sustainability Is A Strategic Imperative

Pakistan, Oct. 3 -- Outer space is undergoing a structural transformation. Once associated primarily with scientific exploration and national prestige, it has become an increasingly congested, commerc... Read More


Mastering Self-Deception: When Failure Masquerades As Fate

Pakistan, Oct. 2 -- In the quiet minutes before sleep, when the noise of the day subsides, we recognize precisely what makes us miserable. Yet, when morning arrives, we willingly return to the circums... Read More