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A View From The Bridge: The US Today Through The Eyes Of A Visitor

Pakistan, Oct. 16 -- Here in the US, summer is giving way to autumn and the trees are turning colour. A growing nip in the morning air, while often a rain-soaked evening breeze blows dead yellowed lea... Read More


Pakistani Dramas And The Myth Of The Perfect Son

Pakistan, Oct. 15 -- Much has been written about the problematic mother-son relationship in the hit serial Dar-e-Nijaat, which is, to put it bluntly, a bit too perfect to be true and definitely reeks ... Read More


The Harvest Is Not The Meal: Pakistan's Food Security Crisis

Pakistan, Oct. 15 -- The grain is counted when it leaves the field. Hunger is counted when it reaches the child. Between those two measurements lies much of Pakistan's failure. The 2026 Global Hunger ... Read More


KP's La La Land: Political Fantasy, Public Insecurity

Pakistan, Oct. 14 -- There is something almost surreal about the politics of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). While the province struggles with militancy, insecurity, economic uncertainty and the erosion of p... Read More


The World Order And The Spectre Of War

Pakistan, Oct. 14 -- On the balance of probability, the next round of war looks inevitable. To see why, let us first consider the two possibilities: that the US-Israel duo chooses not to attack Iran, ... Read More


Road To Peace Goes Through Hell

Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- When Shehbaz Sharif and Asim Munir offered to mediate peace in the Middle East, I prayed for their success, though I was no fan of either man or of the path they had taken to secu... Read More


Consciousness, Power And The Politics Of Thinking Machines

Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- Cogito, ergo sum; I think, therefore I am. That is what Rene Descartes left us in 1637; one of the most definitive statements of philosophy to date. Over almost four hundred years... Read More


Pakistan's 25th IMF Programme: Why Is The Press Still Celebrating?

Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- Washington delivered two verdicts on Pakistan this week. On October 8 the IMF announced a staff-level agreement worth about $1.21 billion. A day earlier the World Bank reported th... Read More


The Paradox Of Peace Negotiations And Security Challenges

Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- The federal government's invocation of Articles 232 and 234 of the Constitution to impose Governor's Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), alongside a state of emergency across 12 dist... Read More


The Economy Of Izzat: Choose Yourself, Dear Daughters

Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- When a woman screams, someone does the arithmetic. What will it cost her family, her job, her children's marriages, her name? In our part of the world, izzat works like currency, ... Read More