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India and America Rift: Behind the Walls of Tariffs

The trade war – enhanced by high tariffs imposed on India – a new bone of contention between India and the US, stems from geo-economic and geopolitical insecurities. Recently, the cordiality between India and America has shifted into a political chess game.Since Trump assumed office, India has repeatedly come under fire from America. First, therift…

Independence Day: Have We Reduced It to A Mere Celebration?!

We have just lived through another 14 August a few days ago. Green and white painted every corner of Pakistan from Peshawar to Karachi, the national flag was seen everywhere from the streets to carts to restaurants, proving that each and everyone was brimming with joy on the 78th year of independence. It was a…

Right to Healthcare: Why Does It Remain Ignored in Politics?

In Pakistan, political campaigns are rarely quiet. There is always a crisis to fix, a rival to attack,or a vote bank to charm. Rallies grow louder, manifestos grow thicker, and yet, amid all the noise,one issue remains oddly muted: the right to healthcare. You rarely hear politicians advocate for hospital reforms. Hardly anyone is grilled…

Battling the Iron Curtain of Space Capitalism through National Policies

As the world struggles to fight its battles with the horrifying terrors of looming nuclear latency, armsescalation dilemma, and a manifestly irregular warfare, it has to gear itself up for a powerfuloccurrence: a new frontier of prevailing power, the NewSpace Industry. From standard triadmethods of warfighting to a fivefold nature of evolving war fronts, the…

Beyond Fiction: The Disastrous Epidemic Killing Women in Pakistan

Almost a month since Sana Yousuf’s unfortunate murder, I’m still unable to complete gather my thoughts. The anger, the frustration, the lingering sadness and helplessness is all consistently present, but there seems to be no outlet for all of these negative emotions apart from a biweekly rant with a fellow woman. The hope I had…

Radicalization on Campus: The New Frontline of Pakistan’s Sociopolitical Divide

A Nation at a Crossroads As Pakistan struggles to settle the deadly clashes between political insecurity and resurgence ofterrorism, it has to concoct its strategies for something turbulently portentous: a chronicsocietal efflux of extremism in the country. The plethora of sociopolitical, cultural, andpsychological enigmas has altered the idea of how societies used to aptly operate.…

Insensitivity or Resilience? Dissecting Pakistan’s Unique Response Strategy: Memes

There are few nations in the world which continue to go through all kinds of hardships without ever catching a break. Be it a never-ending political crisis, deep-diving economy, rising poverty, natural disaster or being on the brink of a war – Pakistanis can just never find themselves without one (or multiple) of these situations…

A World for Everyone: The Need for Inclusive Marketing

“If they don’t see themselves, how will they ever believe they belong?” Marketing goes beyond merely selling an item—it creates society’s vision for the worldaround them. The companies we know by their logos, the clips we watch, and the stories theytry to sell us are the ones that define what we integrate and become daily…

Female Genital Mutilation: A Question of Culture or a Crime?

My university recently ended and I was sitting idle, clueless what to do, so I decided to browsethe internet. What I didn’t know was that I was about to get acquainted with another plight ofwomen, which is faced globally. I came across a publication on female genitalmutilation and it instantly rang a bell in my…

PCT and it’s Disastrous CT’25 Run: Reflecting the National Crisis

Pakistan being the first team to exit the CT’25 that it was hosting was as embarrassing as it gets. Given management was so busy with stadium renovations, perhaps preparing the team wasn’t important enough.