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Perfect apparition: How social media is shaping teenage self-esteem
In a digital age where one post can be viewed by tens of thousands of people in seconds, social media is embedded within teenage life. But a recent school based study has shown that beneath the filtered selfies and viral hashtags is a…
2025: Pakistan’s deadliest year in a decade — Why militancy is back ?
Pakistan recorded the highest number of militant attacks in ten years in 2025, unsettling a fragile security equilibrium that had held since 2017. Government data accessed by this correspondent shows over 1,100 violent incidents across the…
At the right time
The room was wrapped in whiteness—a pale, devouring whiteness that slowly swallowed every color, as though time itself had been bleaching the walls. It was not the whiteness of purity, but of emptiness: a quiet sadness settling in layers,…
Art and culture as engines of progress: Lessons for Pakistan
Art and culture are not decorative elements of society; they are central forces that shape how nations think, feel, and progress. Throughout history, societies that have valued artistic expression and cultural diversity have shown greater…
Sugar, water, and national security: How policy failure entrenched Pakistan’s cartel economy
Last year, Pakistan’s sugar industry quietly extracted around Rs 300 billion in windfall profits.
Not through efficiency.
Not through innovation.
But through manipulation enabled by policy.
This figure was not speculative. The Auditor…
Protecting dignity of minorities !
Since the landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2014 on minority rights and protections, Islamabad High Court in its recent judgement protected dignity of sanitary workers by ending discrimination in jobs advertisements and…
“Our education system is destroying entire generation—And no one to stop it”
Looking at education data across South Asia. Nothing will prepare us for what Pakistan's numbers reveal: a country systematically failing its children at catastrophic scale, with consequences that will define whether it survives this…
Pakistan’s Rs 6.6 trillion textile catastrophe
Pakistan’s textile industry appears to have delivered good news. Export earnings rose from Rs 3.28 trillion in 2021-22 to Rs 5.01 trillion in 2024-25. Policymakers cite this as proof that currency depreciation revived export…
Checkpoint Charlie, Islamabad Style
Islamabad is a beautiful city. Wide roads, green belts, silent sectors, and an air of importance that suggests something very serious is always happening somewhere nearby. And to make sure this seriousness is fully felt by ordinary…
