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News in Picture

Walnut Vendor’s Quiet Vigil

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Asem Mustafa Awan  Islamabad: An elderly man in a white cap and brown attire sits against a rugged rock face beside a gravel road, selling walnuts from plastic bags arranged on a wooden board. A clear water bottle and two metal cups rest…
International

Gen Z: A Global Youth Rebellion

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AFP/APP Johannesburg: From Nepal to Peru, Morocco to Madagascar, Gen Z protesters took to the streets in 2025, toppling two governments and challenging authorities across the world. With the symbol of a skull and crossbones wearing a…
Governance

Price of Poverty on Two Wheels

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Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: In a country where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line, as reported by the World Bank, the sight of an elderly man balancing heaps of snack packets on his motorbike through the narrow…
Opinion

Balochistan’s Silent Poverty Crisis

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Sher Ahmed Durrani  Islamabad: Balochistan is the largest province in Pakistan, and it stands at a complicated crossroads, struggling to come to terms with deep-seated poverty. This issue goes beyond the realm of economic statistics; it…
Human Rights

Bumper Crops, Starving Villages

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Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Umarkot: In the faded two-inch photograph of two-year-old Nimra, she appears peacefully asleep eyes closed as though resting in eternal silence. Death had not disfigured her innocence. It seemed even death itself had…
Opinion

Breaking KP’s Poverty Cycle

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Habibul Hassan Peshawar: The pervasive poverty across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the recently merged ex-FATA districts is a glaring indictment of years of poor governance and neglect. These areas have long been marred by deprivation,…