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Selected, Rejected, Convicted: The Imran Khan Trilogy

Pakistan, July 9 -- Imran Khan, the cricket icon-turned-populist prime minister, now sits behind bars, his dramatic fall from grace shaped not by conspiracy but by a string of miscalculations, polaris... Read More


Time To Rethink Pakistan's India Fixation

Pakistan, July 9 -- Undoubtedly, Pakistan has long contended with Indian hostility. There is no need to recount the communal slaughters of 1947, India's reneging on commitments regarding Kashmir and i... Read More


India's Four-Day Fumble: Skirmish Or Strategic Setback?

Pakistan, July 9 -- Indian media and defence commentators have recently begun referring to the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in May as merely a "skirmish" a transparent attempt to downp... Read More


No 'Both Sides' In Genocide: Ilan Pappe Rejects Zionist Mythology And Western Complicity

Pakistan, July 8 -- Ilan Pappe commands immense respect for his body of work including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) and Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024). In reachi... Read More


Why Balkanisation Is Not The Answer For Pakistan

Pakistan, July 8 -- The idea of balkanising Pakistan-splitting it into smaller ethnic or regional states-has periodically resurfaced in public discourse, often fuelled by ethnic grievances, economic d... Read More


Jinnah's Demand For Undivided Punjab And Bengal In Pakistan

Pakistan, July 8 -- In a recent talk given by noted journalist and intellectual Wajahat Masood at the Pakistani Al-Mawrid Society on 21 May 2025, he meandered from one event to another, making peculia... Read More


Why Hussain's Message Will Only Grow Stronger

Pakistan, July 7 -- The almost 1,350-year-old refusal of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), to pledge allegiance to the unjust and incompetent ruler Yazid was an act with monum... Read More


Menstruation: How Long Will This Silence Last?

Pakistan, July 7 -- It was a very hot afternoon in summer. The heat was so strong that even crickets left their nests. I got off the school bus, looked around, and started walking. Usually, the bus wo... Read More


Faith In Dialogue: Reimagining Interfaith Harmony For A More Inclusive Pakistan

Pakistan, July 7 -- "Interfaith engagement should be understood not as a source of division, but as a constructive tool for addressing contemporary global challenges. Religious intellectual and moral ... Read More


Understanding Jinnah: The Complex Legacy Of Pakistan's Founding Father

Pakistan, July 7 -- How does a modern Pakistani, living in the 21st century, approach the legacy of a founding father who was first and foremost a great barrister and secondly a consummate politician?... Read More