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A Life in Rhythm with Nature

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Umerkot: Tucked away in southeastern Pakistan, the Tharparkar Desert—stretching across Sindh province lives and breathes through four distinct seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Monsoon. Each season not only…

Will We Ever Conclude?

Khushhal Khan Islamabad: “Pro-democracy public”,  a slogan that continues to pierce our ears, yet few truly understand what it means. You can’t just look it up in a dictionary. I tried but no luck. So I thought: maybe breaking the term…

Children of the Sewage Nation

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: In a nation where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line, the image of seven barefoot children foraging for discarded vegetables in a flood of sewage is not a rare accident—it is a system’s…

The Woman Who Refused to Walk Away

Saleh Safeer Abbasi Islamabad: The brave Dilshad Bibi from Abbottabad, who fought against her home and society to build her own world. It was the year 1995. In the village of Namli Mera in the Abbottabad district, 20-year-old Dilshad…

Swat’s Deadly Negligence

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The Swat River didn't kill those 11 people on June 28 - the system did. At 3:17 AM, as floodwaters smashed through an illegally constructed hotel in Bahrain, three children sleeping on the ground floor never…