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By Amir Muhammad Khan Pakistan is often described, almost casually, as a poor country. Yet this description, repeated so frequently in public discourse, sits uneasily alongside the scale of religious spending, charitable outlays and seasonal consumption patterns that define much of its social life. The reality is more complex than a simple label of poverty allows. It is a country where deprivation exists alongside significant religious expenditure, where hardship coexists with large scale collective spending during major religious occasions, and where questions about priorities are becoming harder to avoid. Islamic teaching is clear that the obligation of Hajj is tied…

By Sudhir Ahmad Afridi The record arrival of more than 1.267 million tourists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during Eid al Adha has once again highlighted how quickly domestic tourism is expanding in Pakistan and how unevenly its benefits are being distributed. The surge was not confined to the well known northern corridors alone. It also included nearly 394,682 visitors to the newly merged tribal districts, a figure that quietly but firmly challenges older assumptions that these regions remain cut off from mainstream travel patterns. What this actually reflects is not a lack of interest, but a long standing lack of sustained…

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The latest exchange between Washington and Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz has exposed how quickly the language of diplomacy can shift into the language of pressure, leaving even cautious hopes of de-escalation hanging in uncertainty. What had appeared in recent weeks as a slow, uneven opening towards understanding now looks far less stable, shaped instead by competing claims, mixed signals and political messaging that often moves faster than negotiations on the ground. At the centre of the latest dispute are remarks from the US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, who suggested that any agreement with Iran would result in greater…

By Dr Zawwar Hussain In the modern world, technology has quietly become the backbone of almost every system that keeps societies running. It guides transport, secures financial networks, supports hospitals, enables global trade and underpins military operations. Among all these technologies, satellite based navigation has become one of the most critical. Global Positioning System is now embedded in everyday life in ways most people rarely notice. From smartphones to aircraft, from shipping routes to emergency services, almost every movement on land, sea and air depends on signals beamed from space. The scale of this dependence is immense. Entire economies now…

By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal In the quiet geography of childhood, time does not behave as it later will. It moves slowly, almost generously, stretching each day into something that feels spacious and complete. Sundays, in particular, carried a special kind of gravity. They were not just days off from school, but small celebrations in themselves, anticipated with a restlessness that began long before they arrived. Even on Saturdays, sleep often refused to come easily. The mind would drift between possibilities, weighing plans as if each one held equal importance and promise. A cricket match on an open field with friends…

By Atiq Raja My recent visit to Turin left a lasting impression of a city that has managed to hold its history and its future in careful balance. It is a place where old stone and new steel sit side by side without conflict, where heritage is not treated as something to be frozen behind glass but as a living part of daily urban life. What stood out most was not only the beauty of the city but the sense of intention behind its development, a feeling that change here has been guided rather than rushed. Walking through the streets…

The decision by Field Marshal Asim Munir to spend Eid al-Adha with frontline troops deployed along Pakistan’s western border carried a symbolism that extended well beyond a ceremonial military visit. Eid is traditionally a time of family gatherings, reflection and sacrifice. For soldiers stationed far from their homes in some of the country’s most challenging and volatile regions, it is also a reminder of the personal costs associated with national service. By joining troops in Zhob, Balochistan, on one of the most important days in the Islamic calendar, the chief of defence forces sought to reinforce a message that the…

By Dr. Zawwar Hussain History has shown that great cities have always depended on secure and reliable water systems. From the Nile valley to the ancient lands between the Tigris and Euphrates, and across the Indus basin, water has shaped where people lived, how economies grew and how civilisations sustained themselves. It has never been just a resource for drinking or farming. It has been the quiet foundation of health, trade, industry and urban life. In the modern world, that reality has not changed. If anything, it has become more urgent as cities expand and populations grow at unprecedented speed.…