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By Mujeeb Rahman Qambrani MEHAR: A minor girl, Ujala Parveen Solangi, remained untraced even after 32 days since her alleged abduction, while her parents and members of the Parents Teachers Association continued a protest camp for the 20th consecutive day at Ghanta Ghar Chowk in Mehar. Speaking at the protest camp, the girl’s uncle Sardar Solangi, PTA District President Ejaz Chandio, Taluka President Ejaz Mangi, Abdul Rasheed Janwari, Matloob Narejo, Awami Porhait Tehreek leader Advocate Panhal Khoso, Advocate Rahim Bux Baghiyo, Rashid Shah, Sardar Muhammad Warel, Muhammad Amin, Tufail Ahmed, Saifullah Deero, Munir Deero and others said that 32 days…
The carefully managed theatre surrounding Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing has revealed far more than the formal language contained in diplomatic communiqués. On optics, the meetings between the United States and China were wrapped in all the expected rituals of statecraft: honor guards, extended handshakes, polished statements about cooperation and repeated assurances of mutual respect. Yet diplomacy often speaks most clearly through atmosphere rather than words, and the atmosphere surrounding this visit has carried a significance that neither side is likely to acknowledge openly. Beneath the polished choreography, Beijing appears determined to communicate a deeper reality about the changing balance…
By S.M. Inam Pakistan appears to be entering another period of constitutional uncertainty, where political speculation, institutional calculations and governance debates are converging at a highly sensitive moment for the federation. Reports surrounding a proposed “28th Constitutional Amendment” have generated widespread discussion not simply because of the legal changes being contemplated, but because they touch the central question that has shaped Pakistan’s political history for decades: who truly controls the state — the federation or the provinces? Although no official constitutional package has yet been formally unveiled, the discussions themselves are revealing. They suggest that powerful circles within the state…
By Professor Dr. S.K. Akram Ali The language of strategic partnerships has become one of the defining features of modern geopolitics. No nation today, regardless of size or military strength, can operate in complete isolation. Economic interdependence, regional rivalries, security threats and shifting global alliances have created a world in which countries increasingly rely on carefully constructed partnerships to safeguard their interests. Yet while governments often describe these relationships in grand diplomatic terms, strategic partnerships are rarely built on sentiment alone. They are ultimately shaped by necessity, power calculations and survival. South Asia offers one of the clearest illustrations of…
By Atiq Raja China’s rise as a global industrial power is often explained through statistics: massive exports, giant factories, modern infrastructure and technological expansion. Yet numbers alone do not fully explain how the country transformed itself within a few decades from a largely agrarian economy into the manufacturing center of the world. Beneath the machinery, supply chains and skyscrapers lies something less visible but perhaps far more important — a national mindset shaped by adaptability, speed and relentless problem-solving. During visits to China’s industrial cities, one phrase repeatedly emerges in conversations with manufacturers, engineers and business owners: “No problem.” At…
By Israr Ahmad Orakzai KARAK: The Commissioner of Kohat Division, Syed Mutasim Billah Shah, made a surprise visit to Karak district and reviewed development schemes, government institutions and the law and order situation, during which he reprimanded officials over poor performance and ordered the immediate completion of pending projects. During the visit, accompanied by Deputy Commissioner Karak Asad Sarwar and other officials, he inspected ongoing construction work on the Indus Highway, an anti-encroachment operation, the Karak bypass road, drainage schemes, the Government Higher Secondary School Tappi Kanda and the Women and Children Hospital. He also examined land allocated for a…
For Pakistan, Afghanistan has long represented both a strategic obsession and an enduring anxiety. Decades of conflict, shifting alliances and terrorist spillover have left the relationship suspended between dependence and distrust. Yet the increasingly confrontational rhetoric now emerging from Islamabad suggests something more troubling than a temporary diplomatic rupture. It reflects a deeper collapse of regional confidence at a moment when South Asia can least afford another prolonged cycle of hostility. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s warning that Pakistan could treat Kabul in the same manner as Delhi was not merely an offhand political remark delivered for domestic effect. It was…
By Dr. Zawwar Hussain For centuries, humanity has looked up at the night sky with a mixture of wonder and unease. The stars were once seen as fixed and unchanging, a celestial ceiling beyond human reach and understanding. Today, that perception has been completely overturned. The universe is no longer a distant backdrop to human life but a dynamic, measurable and increasingly intelligible system. The latest release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), installed at the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, marks one of the most ambitious steps yet in that long journey of understanding.…
By Khpalwak Mohmand Eight years after one of Pakistan’s most consequential constitutional reforms, the former tribal districts remain suspended in an uneasy in-between space. The promise of integration has been declared on paper, yet on the ground the reality is far more fragmented. What has emerged is not a completed transition from one system to another, but a prolonged administrative limbo in which neither the old order nor the new has fully taken hold. For decades, the region functioned under a parallel legal and governance structure shaped by the Frontier Crimes Regulation. Its abolition was widely seen as a necessary…
