The United States is considering using its biggest non-nuclear bomb against Iran if President Donald Trump should decide to renew combat in the war that has hit a deadlock, CNN reported on Thursday. The military is planning for the potential use of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb — better known by its nickname, the...
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October 15, 2026October 15, 2026Pakistan
Teacher, 32 students killed in Peshawar school roof collapse
PESHAWAR: At least 33 people, including 32 students and a female teacher, were killed when a school roof collapsed in the provincial capital’s Afridi Abad area on Thursday. Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) spokesperson Muhammad Asim told Dawn that the death toll had risen to 33 from an earlier figure of 28. The deceased included 32 students aged...
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October 15, 2026October 15, 2026Columns
The Ideological Constant: Liberal Society vs. Military Professionalism
In the foundational discourse of civil-military relations, few works resonate as deeply as Samuel P. Huntington’s seminal 1957 treatise, The Soldier and the State. Central to Huntington’s analysis is his profound exploration of the ideological constant: the enduring friction between a dominant liberal civilian society and the conservative realism essential to military professionalism. As legal...
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October 14, 2026October 14, 2026World
US may have ‘gone too far’ in targeting Iran leaders
OHIO: US President Donald Trump said that the United States “might have gone too far” in targeting Iran’s leadership. “We might have gone too far with the leaders because we don’t know who the hell we’re dealing with any more,” he said during a campaign rally in Ohio, according to Middle East Eye. “Nobody wants to...
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October 14, 2026October 14, 2026Pakistan
Emergency imposed in KP as its security situation was becoming threat to ‘national security’: minister
Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Wednesday explained before the National Assembly that emergency was imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the security situation there was becoming a threat to “national security”. The question hour session was suspended due to discussions on the imposition of emergency in KP. Unexpectedly, opposition members are sitting calmly and staging...
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October 14, 2026October 14, 2026Columns
The Weather We Carry
Some days start ordinary and then suddenly the kitchen light feels warmer. Yesterday, my neighbour washed my dishes along with his own. No announcement. No big gesture. No waiting to be thanked. He simply did it. He saw them there and he did it. I keep returning to that moment. Not because the sink is...
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October 13, 2026October 13, 2026World
New Delhi police detain top ‘cockroach’ leaders after flash protest at Jantar Mantar
India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said on Tuesday that key leaders had been detained after entering an iconic protest site in New Delhi blocked by police. Opposition parties and supporters of the movement have taken to the streets in recent days, defying a security clampdown to demand the resignation of the head of India’s election commission, accusing it of manipulating...
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October 13, 2026October 13, 2026Pakistan
At least 4 killed, over 40 injured as Peshawar-bound train derails in Punjab’s Multan district
LAHORE: At least four people were killed and more than 40 were injured when the Peshawar-bound Rehman Baba Express derailed near Sher Shah Railway Station in Multan district on Tuesday. Minister for Railways Hanif Abbasi confirmed the death of four passengers in the incident. The minister also appointed the federal government inspector of railways (FGIR)...
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October 13, 2026October 13, 2026Pakistan
Govt says people of KP ‘welcomed’ governor’s rule as it gave them ‘hope’
Information Minister Ataullah Tarar on Tuesday claimed that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had “welcomed” the federal government’s move to impose governor’s rule and emergency in the province, saying the measures had given them “hope”. The federal government on Sunday imposed an emergency in 12 districts of KP, and placed the province under governor’s rule, taking note...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Columns
Unmasking the Fault Lines: A Critical Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations
Civilizations are not produced or born in a vacuum. The intellectual and cultural heritage of humanity is a continuous, interconnected stream rather than a collection of isolated reservoirs separated by impassable barriers. Long before the rise of modern geopolitical boundaries, ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian traditions laid the groundwork for human knowledge, which was...