For years, we have quietly treated technical and vocational education as the second choice in Pakistan. Gilgit-Baltistan is no exception. If a student gets good marks, the usual advice is simple: go for medicine, engineering, or the civil service. If the marks are not good enough, technical education is often presented as the next option....
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October 16, 2026October 16, 2026EDUCATION
Wali Khan Al-Muzaffa
Dear friends Today, I would like to introduce one of my great teachers, my mentor, and a person who has always encouraged his students to improve their reading, writing, and speaking skills. I have had the privilege of learning from many great teachers, but Ustad Wali Khan Al-Muzaffar is truly a unique personality. He is...
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October 16, 2026October 16, 2026World
India closes down New Delhi park ahead of ‘cockroach’ movement rally
Authorities closed a central New Delhi park Friday before a fresh protest seeking the removal of India’s election chief over a voter-roll revision that critics say has disenfranchised millions. Organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the campaign has become the focal point of opposition anger over allegations that the revised rolls favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party....
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October 16, 2026October 16, 2026Pakistan
Pakistan to assume IMF, World Bank board chairmanship for first time in over 7 decades
Pakistan has been named the incoming chair of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) for next year, for the first time since 1953, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Friday. Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Khan Cheema, who is also Pakistan’s governor to...
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October 16, 2026October 16, 2026Pakistan
IHC seeks PTI response in case about Imran’s X account
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday granted PTI interim chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan additional time to submit a written response to a petition seeking a ban on party founder Imran Khan’s official X account, adjourning the hearing until Nov 23. Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir heard the petition, filed by Ghulam Murtaza, while...
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October 15, 2026October 15, 2026World
US considers hitting Iran with ‘Mother of All Bombs’: report
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...