For more than a decade, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to project himself as an exceptional global leader. According to the government’s narrative, every overseas visit is portrayed as a diplomatic triumph, every photograph as evidence of international recognition, and every foreign honour as a symbol of India’s growing global stature. However, a...
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July 5, 2026July 5, 2026Columns
Mira Saddam Hussein” or “Sumaya Al-Zubai?
Yemen has once again become the focus of global media attention due to an incident where reality, politics, tribal traditions, and psychological warfare seem completely intertwined. A woman, claiming to be “Mira Saddam Hussein” the daughter of the former President of Iraq appealed to Yemeni tribal sheikhs for asylum and justice. This single claim not...
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June 29, 2026June 29, 2026Columns
Google Trends: Field Marshal General Asim Munir
According to recent Google Trends reports, global searches for Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, have witnessed an extraordinary surge. Reports indicate that searches for keywords and hashtags such as #AsimMunir, #PakistanArmyChief, #FieldMarshalAsimMunir, and #AsimMunirSpeeches increased significantly worldwide, bringing him into the international spotlight. This surge...
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June 27, 2026June 27, 2026Columns
Khalida Hussain: A Trailblazing Architect of Urdu Fiction
Khalida Hussain is regarded as one of the most distinctive short story writers in Urdu literature, having established a unique identity through her writings. She is not only counted among Pakistan’s finest fiction writers but is also credited with introducing new dimensions of modernism and symbolism into the Urdu short story tradition. Khalida Hussain was...
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June 26, 2026June 26, 2026Columns
An Intellectual Apotheosis and a Testament to Resolute Perseverance: A Scholarly Exegesis of Dr. Saima Ghiasuddin’s Historic Achievement
This discourse is by no means a conventional assemblage of congratulatory platitudes; rather, it constitutes an intellectual meditation upon that rare and transformative process whereby aspiration, refined through relentless discipline and unwavering perseverance, is transmuted into enduring reality. Within the distinguished realm of medicine, the Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG)...
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June 22, 2026June 22, 2026Columns
A Tide of Despondency Within Israel
A recently conducted joint survey undertaken by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Agam Institute has unveiled a portrait of public sentiment so stark and consequential that it defies facile dismissal. Conducted between 17 and 20 June 2026 among 3,644 Israeli citizens, the inquiry has yielded conclusions that constitute not merely a profound rebuke...
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June 22, 2026June 22, 2026Columns
Illusion of welfare state
The question of how the state began and what it owes to its citizens has been debated for centuries, and tracing this evolution reveals a single, unyielding truth: every political freedom, democratic vote, and welfare check depends entirely on a foundation of hard security. To understand this structural reality, we must look at the very...
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June 21, 2026June 21, 2026Columns
The Dawn of Clinical Modernity, the Metamorphosis of Public Healthcare, and the Sagacious Administrative Stewardship of Medical Superintendent and General Surgeon Dr. Ghiasuddin
The preservation and historical trajectory of human civilization are punctuated by epochal nexuses wherein the ossified structures of conventional paradigms are systematically dismantled by the harmonious convergence of avant-garde methodology and altruistic humanism. Within the industrial topography of Karachi, traditionally obscured by the kinetic dissonance and atmospheric turbidity of the SITE area, the Kulsoom Bai...
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June 21, 2026June 21, 2026Columns
A Treatise on the Helvetian Conciliation: Pakistan’s Strategic Ascendancy as the Vanguard of Regional Pacification
Amidst the sublime, snow-crested precipices of the Swiss Alps, within the tranquil confines of the Bürgenstock resort, there unfolds an epoch-making juncture in international statecraft a geopolitical phenomenon hitherto unvisualized by the Pakistani polity. In the labyrinthine, technical-level parleys transpirating between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Republic...
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June 19, 2026June 19, 2026Columns
Intellectual Bankruptcy and Geostrategic Avarice
Within the contemporary geopolitical theatre, a meticulous examination of the configurations of global power and the evolving architecture of regional strategic alignments reveals a profound and paradoxical intellectual dissonance. This contradiction is rooted less in the conventional doctrines of international relations than in the deeper impulses of human nature and in the modern creed of...