Despite floods, up to 20pc water shortage forecast for Rabi

Islamabad: Despite floods and torrential rainfall that wreaked havoc across the country and inundated swathes of lands, particularly in Sindh and Balochistan, the country will face a water shortage of 15 to 20 per cent in the ...

Bangladesh: Any similarities with Pakistan?

It has almost become a fashion statement these days to draw similarities between what recently transpired in Bangladesh and what could perhaps be waiting to happen in Pakistan. The real question however is whether are there trul...

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Electoral meddling

“The American people,” the US attorney general Merrick Garland declared recently, “are entitled to know when a foreign power engages in political activities or seeks to influence public discourse.” He was pontificating i...

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Prolonged stand-off

HISTORICALLY, India-Pakistan relations have moved within a narrow bandwidth, mostly between a looming conflict and an ominous peace. A sense of tension and expectancy was always in the air, but dialogue was never taken off t...

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Silencing Afghanistan’s women

There is no doubt that many have had a role in Afghanistan’s destruction, but the question of who exactly is to blame for the country’s current condition is a thorny and vexing one. This week, the Republican Party came up...

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Deplorable remarks

Pakistan’s political sphere, vitiated by ever-increasing sexism, is a space where decency is in short supply. Although every political party has its band of repeat offenders, KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s hideous rem...

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