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Baku and Islamabad: One tale , two cities
Zalmay Azad
Last year, I had the privilege of visiting Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a city where the Caspian Sea kisses the shorelines of history and modernity. My visit was not just a traveler’s journey but also a journalist’s…
Global treaty to end plastic pollution.
Majid Bashir
Each year, more than 300 million metric tons of plastic is created. Many plastic products are single use, cannot be recycled, and remain in the environment for decades or centuries. Only 9 percent of plastic ever…
Saudi–Pakistan mutual defense pact: shifting sands of Gulf security
Imran Nasir Shaikh Asim Riaz
On September 17, 2025, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a historic mutual defense pact, marking the first formal agreement of its kind between two Muslim-majority states. The text is unequivocal: any…
Duels to Drones : Trump vs. Xi
Imran Bajwa
Age old tradition of Duels between TWO noble commanders was considered a godly & Heroic Act for centuries.
It was an established practice in all global civilizations.
These used to be public display of chivalry,…
Climate destruction and United Nations: Is global governance failing?
Aneesa Batool
From north to south and east to west entire globe is reeling from climate change. Due to the climate change entire globe is facing enormous destructions like rising temperature, melting Ice,
sea level rise,…
Pakistan’s flood crisis deepens:* *Crops, villages, and lives swept away
Asim Riaz
Punjab is reeling from its worst floods in nearly four decades, with over 1.2 million hectares of land submerged. Fields that once grew rice, maize, and cotton now resemble inland seas. The devastation cuts across…
Beyond band-aids: Pakistan need permanent solutions to climate disasters
Alishba Malik
“All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not…
Pakistan needs an IT-Driven economy
Pakistan is racing towards demographic and economic collapse. The population is ballooning, yet it behaves more like an untrained, unproductive mass of zombies — disconnected from the demands of a modern world and utterly detached from the…
Flood devastation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, An investigative review
M. Ilyas Mullakhel
Nation without roots cannot stand: Why embracing indigenous identity is strategic imperative ?
Zalmay Azad
One of the gravest mistakes made in Pakistan’s post-independence history has been the severing of our ties with the very land that bore us. In our blind obsession with defining ourselves through external affiliations —…