Chromatic successfully organized a Media Launch and Policy Dialogue to unveil its research report under the project “Educational Pathways to Peace” on December 23, 2025, at the Mövenpick Hotel, Islamabad. The project was funded by the European Union (EU) , led by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Pakistan and implemented in partnership...
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December 22, 2025December 22, 2025Blogs
In the Age of Noise, Who Listens to Real Thought?
Noise has multiplied; critical thought has become inconvenient. Everyone is speaking but very little thinking is being tolerated. The contemporary public sphere is saturated with opinions, visibility and performance, while remaining increasingly hostile to reflection that disrupts comfort or authority. Speech is abundant where it affirms power, scarce where it interrogates it. In such conditions,...
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December 20, 2025December 20, 2025Columns
Dowry, Abuse, and Denial
I began writing and speaking publicly about dowry-related violence at a time when it was still dismissed as a private family issue or an unfortunate cultural excess. Over more than three decades of sustained advocacy, policy engagement, and public writing, my position has remained consistent: dowry is not tradition, generosity, or celebration. It is a...
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December 20, 2025December 20, 2025Columns
Poverty, Systems, and the Illusion of Resources
I begin with a simple but uncomfortable truth: poverty has never been eradicated. Not by revolutions, not by religions, and not by economic systems. It has survived monarchies and republics, capitalism and socialism, colonialism and independence. It has changed its appearance and its victims, but it has remained present. This persistence itself proves that poverty...
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December 20, 2025December 20, 2025Columns
The Voice of Love: Mehboob Sada
Rawalpindi has always been a city of literature, thought, and living dialogue. Its streets and neighborhoods have long borne witness to gatherings where words were not merely spoken but deeply felt, and ideas did not remain abstract thoughts but shaped attitudes and ways of life. Within this tradition, one gentle yet firm voice is that...
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December 18, 2025December 18, 2025Blogs
Rethinking the RMB Debate: Why Exchange-Rate Narratives Need Updating
In recent months, Western commentary has once again seized upon China’s trade surplus as evidence that the renminbi (RMB) is undervalued. The familiar charge is that China keeps its currency artificially weak to support exports. This narrative, rooted in older economic frameworks, places heavy weight on trade flows while giving insufficient attention to the realities...
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December 18, 2025December 18, 2025Columns, Uncategorized
World Arabic Language Day and a Changing Age
Eighteen December stands as more than a date on the calendar. It reflects a long civilizational memory. On this day in 1973, the United Nations General Assembly granted Arabic the status of an official language. Years later, UNESCO recognized the historic role of Arabic in preserving human civilization and cultural heritage and marked this date...
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December 18, 2025December 18, 2025Columns
The forgotten Biharis
Reproducing Dr Rakhshinda Perveen’s think piece originally Published in Daily Times, December 4th 2017. “Thousands of families of ill-fated Muslims, many of them refugees from Bihar, who chose Pakistan at the time of the partition riots in 1947, were mercilessly wiped out. Women were raped, or had their breasts torn out with specially-fashioned knives. Children...
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December 16, 2025December 16, 2025Columns
The Solitude of Europe
In the grand theater of international relations, the curtain is falling on the Atlantic era. For decades, the geopolitical identity of the “West” was predicated on a singular, unshakable axis: the convergence of American military might and European diplomatic morality. It was a partnership assumed to be eternal, codified in the G7 and enshrined in...
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December 15, 2025December 15, 2025Columns
Cheap water, costly collapse
On an early March afternoon near the tail of a distributary in Lower Chenab, the rotation chart on the patwari’s wall still shows that water is due. The wheat crop requires its final irrigation before harvest. On the ground, there is only a thin brown trickle that dies in the channel before reaching the final...