Opinion

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: While Pakistan's senior leadership remains engaged in regional diplomacy, including efforts to mediate tensions between Iran and the United States, a deepening political crisis in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has…

Ishtiaq AhmedBradford: Addressing the G7 Summit, US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that a peace agreement aimed at ending tensions between the United States, Iran and Israel would be formally signed in Geneva on Friday.…

Dr Muhammad Sher Ali Lahore: Every two seconds, someone in Pakistan needs blood. Despite extraordinary advances in modern medicine, from gene therapy to artificial intelligence, science has yet to create a substitute for human blood. No…

Sher Ahmed DurraniQuetta: The murder of Noor Mukadam in July 2021 remains one of the most haunting cases of gender-based violence in Pakistan’s recent history. The 27-year-old was brutally killed at the residence of Zahir Jaffer in…

Qadeem AchakzaiQuetta: Viruses remain one of the most persistent threats to human health, with each virus affecting the body in different ways. Some individuals develop clear symptoms, while others remain asymptomatic carriers for long…

Muhammad HamzaIslamabad: A few weeks ago, protests erupted across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), drawing attention to a long-standing political controversy: the 12 reserved refugee seats in the AJK Legislative Assembly. The…

Nafeesa KakarQuetta: Contemporary global disorder cannot be fully explained through the traditional language of geopolitics alone. Wars, great-power competition, technological disruption, democratic backsliding, and economic uncertainty…

Shoaib Ullah Islamabad: Balochistan does not simmer. It burns slowly, deliberately, and with the patience of a people who have been waiting for over seven decades to be heard.It is tempting to frame the Balochistan crisis as a…

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: It began with an insult. Or at least that is how many young Indians saw it. When remarks comparing some unemployed youth to “cockroaches” sparked outrage across social media, few could have predicted what…

Ali Nawaz RahimooUmarkot: The floods that struck Pakistan in 2011 and 2022 were not only humanitarian disasters; they were warnings of a changing climate reality. The destruction of homes, crops, roads, and livelihoods revealed how…