Export reality
THE FPCCI is rightly concerned over the burgeoning trade deficit that has widened by 18.1pc to $7.1bn in the first…
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Online danger
THE digital age contains death traps for children. A new Unicef report reveals a global child exploitation emergency. About 20m…
Women’s vulnerabilities amid Balochistan terrorism
The terrorism in Balochistan has featured women’s participation, which is an anachronism according to the deeply conservative Baloch patriarchal traditions.…
Is Gen Z really asleep?
For some time, I have been writing in these pages about generations: Generation X, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha and…
The women missing from divorce debate
There is a crisis unfolding quietly in some of Pakistan’s poorest households. We rarely talk about it because, in many…
Has Iran war dented USA’s global power?
When the US and Israel started bombing Iran on Feb 28, President Donald Trump termed the campaign a mere “excursion”…
The fight for Mir Raza
I graduated from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in 2024 and the last time I saw all my batchmates…
The borrowing dependency and debt sentence
We are all borrowers in one sense or the other, and our survival cannot be sustained without this reliance. What…
‘Durable or fragile’: What to expect from the 14-point US-Iran deal?
More than 100 days after the United States and Israeli bombs began falling on Iran, Washington and Tehran have “electronically”…
Hormuz bottleneck: Could Middle East crisis change Gwadar’s fortunes?
At a time when the world is tense and the Middle East crisis has disrupted the flow of ships through…