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There is a peculiar kind of exhaustion that settles over a country when it has been forced to prove its right to exist not once, but every single morning for seventy-five years. It is the fatigue of waking up to a news bulletin that begins with a power outage, a currency freefall, or a drone hovering somewhere beyond the horizon. For most of its modern life, Pakistan has been spoken of in the lexicon of crisis: a fragile idea, a nuclear tinderbox, a place where geography and geopolitics collide like tectonic plates. But here is the truth that the chattering…

By Akbar Eissa Zadey There is a peculiar kind of exhaustion that settles over the observer of American foreign policy these days. It is not the fatigue of complexity, for the world has always been a knotty place. It is the weariness of watching the same scene replay itself with metronomic predictability: the ultimatum, the threat, the collapse of talk, and then the lurch toward something louder, more expensive, and infinitely more dangerous. Just days ago, Donald Trump announced his intention to impose a naval blockade on Iran. And while the president remains intent on turning this threat into steel…

By Asghar Ali Mubarak There is a peculiar, almost theatrical unreality to watching the world hold its breath over a ceasefire that does not quite exist, mediated by a country scrambling to keep its own diplomatic furniture from floating away. Pakistan, for a brief moment, finds itself at the center of global attention. Islamabad is preparing for a second round of talks between Washington and Tehran with the kind of frantic energy that precedes either a breakthrough or a breakdown. The problem is that no one can say which, because the two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan is due to expire…

By Dr Zardad Wazir The history of press freedom in Pakistan is not merely about the dissemination of news; it is a long narrative of struggle, sacrifice and resistance. The recent provincial convention on Media Laws, Regulation and Ethics, held at the Peshawar Press Club and attended by journalists from Islamabad, Lahore and other parts of the country, represents a continuation of this enduring struggle. It once again brought the journalistic community together to raise a unified voice for the protection of their constitutional and fundamental rights. Organized by the Peshawar Press Club and the Khyber Union of Journalists, with…

By Mujeeb Rahman Qambrani MEHAR: A six-year-old girl, Ujala Parveen Solangi, remained missing five days after her disappearance from Ayaz Colony in Mehar, leaving her family in deep distress. Her father, primary school teacher Shamsuddin Solangi, along with her uncle, mother, grandmother and other relatives, had broken down in tears, saying that days had passed since their young daughter went missing. The family said they were living in anguish, describing the atmosphere at home as heartbreaking. “We could think of nothing except our daughter. We kept crying and remembering her all the time,” they said, appealing to the Sindh chief…

By Abdul Qadir Mahesar DADU: In village Jhando Babbar, a domestic dispute had turned violent, leaving a pregnant woman and her elderly parents severely injured and covered in blood. The injured woman, Shabiran Babbar, along with her mother Bachal Khatoon and father Munthar, had staged a protest outside the Dadu Press Club. Speaking to the media, they said that over a plot dispute, her uncles — Muhammad Nawaz, Saleem, Irfan Babbar and Imran Babbar — had carried out what they described as a murderous attack on her. According to the woman, she had sustained serious injuries in the assault and…

Abdul Qadir Mahesar DADU: Kando Khan Laghari, a resident of village Haji Baharo in Johi, had staged a protest outside the Dadu Press Club against what he described as an influential land-grabbing group. He later addressed an emergency press conference, where he said he owned 15 acres and 26 ghuntas of land in Deh Patro No. 2, which had originally been in the name of his late father, Ahmed Khan Laghari. He stated that after his father’s death, the Assistant Commissioner Johi had transferred the land into his name. He alleged that an influential group, including Mithal Laghari, Yaqoob Laghari,…

There is a peculiar kind of silence that falls over the Strait of Hormuz when the gunboats withdraw just enough for a tanker to pass. It is not the silence of peace, but the hush of a held breath. And this week, courtesy of a most unlikely chain of events involving a former reality television star in the White House, a clerical establishment in Tehran, and the quiet diplomacy of Pakistan’s military establishment, that silence has been allowed to stretch into something resembling normalcy. Donald Trump, a man who measures success in the decibels of his own pronouncements, has done…

Dr. Zafar Iqbal There is a moment, just after the shouting stops and the barricades are cleared, that truly defines a nation. It is not the moment of revolution, nor the hour of victory. It is the quiet, unglamorous morning after, when the dream that carried millions into the streets meets the plan that must carry them into the future. In Bangladesh right now, that meeting is not going well. In addition, the unease in the air is not about conspiracy or betrayal. It is about something more subtle, and more dangerous: a gap. A small, almost invisible distance between…