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It has probably been said many times over the past few weeks, but it still bears repeating. The world is living through unprecedented times, in more ways than one. In trying to navigate a way out of what many had begun to accept as an inevitable war, we are charting waters so murky that even the most seasoned cartographers of conflict have set down their pens. To borrow, somewhat ironically given the players involved, from ‘Star Trek’, we are boldly going where no one has gone before. The only difference is that the final frontier here is not space, but…
By Dr Zawwar Hussain For centuries, human civilization has treated plants as passive elements of nature, silent, static, and devoid of complex expression. Yet modern environmental science is steadily dismantling this assumption. A new wave of research in plant physiology and bioacoustics has revealed a remarkable truth: plants are not silent. They emit high-frequency ultrasonic sounds, particularly under stress, forming an invisible language that could redefine agriculture, ecology, and our understanding of life itself. Recent experimental work led by researchers at Tel Aviv University has demonstrated that plants such as tomatoes and tobacco emit ultrasonic clicks when exposed to drought,…
Dr. Hussain Thebo In a world increasingly troubled by conflict and uncertainty, leadership that promotes restraint, stability, and peace deserves recognition. In South Asia, where tensions often run high and the risks of escalation remain real, Field Marshal Hafiz Syed Asim Munir has emerged as a figure whose leadership has contributed to maintaining strategic balance and regional calm. Throughout his military career, he has held key command and intelligence positions that required discipline, judgment, and strategic clarity. These responsibilities demand more than military expertise; they require the ability to manage crises carefully while keeping broader regional stability in mind. His…
By Sudhir Ahmad Afridi Only a year ago, the despair that gripped Pakistan felt like a permanent weather system, a low pressure of the soul that refused to lift. To be Pakistani was to navigate a daily arithmetic of survival: the cost of flour, the flicker of the lights, the quiet shame of a brain drain that saw our brightest young minds queuing for visas to anywhere else. The world, when it looked our way at all, saw only a fragile state on the edge of a map, a place of insoluble problems. And yet, something curious has happened. The…
By Mujeeb Rahman Qambrani MEHAR: A grand oath-taking ceremony for the newly elected office-bearers of the Primary Teachers Association (PTA) for District Dadu and Taluka Mehar was held at a local wedding hall in Mehar. The event was attended by a large number of teachers, political and social figures, education department officials, and representatives of various organisations from different districts of Sindh, including Hyderabad Division. Prominent attendees included Ghazi Khan Jamali, Abdul Shakoor Sarang, Muhammad Sharif Tanio, Ali Ahmed Mangan, Nisar Ahmed Memon, Manzoor Hussain Panhwar, District Education Officer Dadu Liaquat Ali Naich, Ejaz Rasool Bux Shah, Niaz Ali Abro,…
By Mujeeb Rahman Qambrani MEHAR: Elections of the Mehar branch of the Sindhi Adabi Sangat were held under the chairmanship of District Coordination Secretary Niaz Elahi Abro. In the elections, young poet Qazi Lutfullah Mahessar was elected secretary of the branch. Tahir Mahzoon Bhatti was elected joint secretary, Sarmad Brohi treasurer, Jibran Danish Khoso auditor and Nadeem Brohi councillor. For the working committee, Saleem Magsi, Qazi Azizullah Mahessar, Imtiaz Adil Soomro, Mohsin Raza Chandio, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi and Azad Anwar Kandhro were elected. On the occasion, newly elected secretary Qazi Lutfullah Mahessar said that young leadership had been given an…
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…
