ISLAMABAD: Pakistan closes 2025 and enters 2026 as the world’s fifth most populous country, with more than 255 million people, alongside high population growth and fertility rates, persistent gender inequality, and rising…
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As the year approaches its end, Pakistan’s judicial system stands divided, subdued and eroded by uncertainty and confusion. Thousands of litigants whose cases await decisions are shuttling between courts, as there are…
Read MoreWe live in an age where tragedy is no longer distant. It is livestreamed, refreshed every few seconds, and placed between a cooking reel and a meme. And with every swipe, we…
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Around the world, democracy is not always overthrown with tanks in the streets or soldiers at the gates of parliament. Increasingly, it is undone more quietly through paperwork, parliamentary votes, and carefully…
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ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned a joint session of Parliament to be held tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:00 AM, marking the first such sitting in nine months. Sources disclosed several…
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ISLAMABAD: A High-Level Saiban-e-Pakistan International Seminar on “The Role of Religion and Law in Dialogue Among Civilizations” Concludes at Islamic Research Institute (IRI), International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI). This major event was a…
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Over the course of my life, I’ve signed a lot of things. Checks, credit card receipts, forms, documents, you name it. And that’s not including all the school slips I forged my mother’s signature…
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The news of the proposed transfer of several Lahore High Court judges has left many of us unsettled in a way that is difficult to articulate. For those who have observed these…
Read MoreConstitutions in Pakistan rarely die in flames. They survive the heat, only to be quietly rewritten by those who once swore to protect them. The 27th constitutional amendment keeps the book unburned,…
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Ukraine’s war has been become the longest war since 1945. The war is primarily due to the process of NATO and EU enlargement coupled with USA’s strategy of using Ukraine and NATO…
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