Major financial scandal awaits Imran Khan?
Arif Naqvi is under house arrest in the UK. He has been close to Imran Khan since the ’90s and
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Pakistan
IK: anti-imperialist hero or authoritarian populist?
Tooba Syed dismantles the myths surrounding the former cricketer’s supposedly anti-imperialist tenure in Pakistan by Tooba Syed Despite his best
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No meaningful evidence of coup against Imran Khan, says Noam Chomsky
The famed leftwing political activist says that using the threatening letter as evidence of a coup is “meaningless”! I have
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A day of ‘shame’: Democratic voices oppose govt’s move to dissolve NA
By Inayat Amir In a swift rejoinder to the government’s move to dissolve National Assembly in a bid to evade
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The real heatwave
By Asim Sajjad Akhtar Pakistan is in the grip of a heatwave. There has been no spring season to usher
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Why are men threatened by women in authority?
Despite all these so-called patriarchal maneuvering and other social barriers that keep women’s participation in politics subservient to the dominant political parties, women’s performance in the parliament is found to be more effective than men’s.
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HRCP calls for revision of laws constraining freedom of assembly
Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has, in partnership with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), released
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GB constitutional package: ‘move aims to legitimise colonial rule’
Young academic cautions youth about neoliberal ‘development mantra Special Correspondent Professor Zaighum Abbas speaking on the proposed provisional provincial status
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The return of terror
By Asim Sajjad Akhtar After each ‘terrorist’ attack, they tell us they are going to go after ‘them’. But there
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Youth challenge: 2 teams qualify for global contest
The programme was launched by UNDP, Unicef in collaboration with SoLF in Pakistan High Asia Herald Report Islamabad: Two Pakistani
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Afghanistan: New Great Game in the heart of Asia
Regional powers are seeking to fill the vacuum left by the abrupt departure of the US and its Western allies.
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Four decades of snow leopards conservation
Considered to be the icons of High Asia, the elusive snow leopards have evolved to live in some of the world’s highest and harshest habitats in 12 countries.
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Christians & caste
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Christmas is hardly a big occasion in Pakistan. More than two million Pakistani Christians celebrate it guardedly,
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Siachen: two pilots die in a copter crash
Herald Report Islamabad, Dec 6: Two pilots have embraced martyrdom on Monday after an Army Aviation helicopter crashed at Siachen
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Diamer-Bhasha dam is neither green nor cheap
Pakistan is pushing ahead with hydropower as a low-cost way of ‘greening’ its energy sector, but this ignores the latest research as well as the history of large dams in the country.
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