SC takes up contempt plea against Imran today

Islamabad: All eyes on the Supreme Court, which is going to take up the federal government’s contempt petition against deposed premier Imran Khan on Thursday (today) over the violation of its May 25 order wherein his party, th...

Shepherd of the Afghans — indispensable, yet ineffective

The US media recently reported that terrorists attacked the Jaffar Express with NATO grade weapons. BBC confirmed that half of around a million weapons left behind in Afghanistan are either being sold to global terrorists or smu...

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Bytes and bombs

In a world where scrolling is second nature and videos under a minute define cultural shifts, the battlefield has expanded far beyond borders and bunkers. The platforms that originally served for dance trends, lip-syncing and ca...

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From Gen Zia to Gen Z — a timeline of VAW

Violence Against Women (VAW), once treated as a forbidden text, is now a yardstick for measuring national progress. Gone are the days when declaring yourself a feminist was not only fraught but instantly branded you mad, immoral...

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The grand illusion of polio eradication

A few days earlier, a high-level meeting was arranged on polio eradication. According to media reports, the meeting compared the polio cases data for the first three months of the ongoing year with the last three months of 2024 ...

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Pilgrims in limbo

There is a professional goof at work while dealing with the Haj operations. The fear that around 67,000 aspiring pilgrims will be denied their right to go on Hajj is quite worrisome. It is perhaps owing to a system error that Pa...

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