We live in a time where information travels faster than ever. With one click, we can see news, opinions, and videos from all over the world. But even with this progress, our moral values seem to be getting weaker. We make quick judgments, react without thinking, and speak without understanding. This is the real moral...
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Iran halts power generation at key dam over drought
The depleted Amirkabir dam in Tehran, Iran, on November 11. TEHRAN: Iranian authorities on Saturday halted electricity production at one of the country’s biggest dams due to a marked drop in the reservoir’s water level, state media reported. “Due to the drop in the Karkheh Dam reservoir level, its power plant’s units were removed from...
Lawyer, two others shot dead in Jhang
TOBA TEK SINGH: Former Jhang District Bar Association president Mehr Muhammad Munir Sadhana, his driver and a passer-by were killed while a shopkeeper was injured when two unidentified persons riding a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire on the lawyer’s car on Gojra Road of Jhang on Saturday morning. Jhang Satellite Town police said the attackers managed...
Hong Kong mourns victims of blaze that killed 128 and counting
Hong Kong on Saturday mourned the 128 people known to have died in a massive fire at a high-rise apartment complex, a toll that is likely to rise with 200 others still unaccounted for days after the disaster. Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with the city’s worst blaze in nearly 80 years as they investigate...
Separate blasts target police checkpoint, CTD vehicle in Quetta; no loss of life reported
A damaged motorcycle lies on the ground after it was used to detonate an IED blast on Qambrani Road, Quetta on Nov 29, 2025. No loss of life was reported after two separate blasts targeted a police checkpoint and a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) vehicle on Quetta’s Qambrani Road. Police said the first blast occurred near...
The Prison of Our Thinking
There are countless kinds of people in this world countless colors countless voices. But among them are some whom we look at, yet never really see People to whom we give a place under the open sky but inside the roofs of our hearts we never spare even a single corner for them. My society...
Indus vs Governance
Despite the river’s volatility, our politics remain trapped in the comfort of familiar fights. Climate change is reshaping the Indus Basin far faster than Pakistan’s institutions can respond. The 2025 monsoon made this brutally clear. According to assessments by the United Nations, Government of Pakistan, and multiple international reporting agencies, the floods inundated roughly 5.4...
How Professional Armies Reshaped Europe and the World
Europe, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, entered a long era of fragmentation and confusion—what later historians called the Dark Ages. Political authority became weak and localized, tied to small lords, tribal chieftains, and feudal obligations. Armies were temporary bodies assembled for a season, unreliable and loosely organized, often fighting only when personal...
The Silent Burnout Crisis Among Youth
Youth, built on ambition but bound by exhaustion, stands at the edge of quiet collapse A generation built on hope now finds itself overworked, underheard and quietly fading behind screens and degrees. There is a stillness around Pakistan’s youth today, not of peace but of numbness shaped by constant striving and unseen deprivation. Beneath the...
Capitalism in Crisis
Capitalism today stands at a crossroads, weighed down by contradictions that threaten both its legitimacy and survival. For decades, the system has promised prosperity, innovation, and freedom, yet what we see around us is inequality, ecological breakdown, and repeated financial crises. The global pandemic further revealed the fragility of markets and the centrality of the...