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Breast cancer is no longer an issue that can be confined to hospitals, medical conferences or awareness campaigns held once a year. It is a national health challenge that demands…

CPIC: Building bridges through information

CPIC: Building bridges through information

Oct 30, 2026
By Sardar Khan Niazi The relationship between Pakistan and China has long been described as an enduring friendship, shaped by diplomatic cooperation, economic engagement and shared strategic interests. Yet, in an increasingly interconnected world, the …
Weaponization of Vulnerability in Balochistan

Weaponization of Vulnerability in Balochistan

May 07, 2026
Asif Mahmood The situation in Balochistan is no longer a simple security challenge. It involves violence on the ground, influence online, and a range of hidden networks working in different ways at the same time. In this environment, groups like the Ba…
Grand Hayat : Facts Are Facts

Grand Hayat : Facts Are Facts

May 04, 2026
Asif Mahmood What is the reason that when the law knocked at the doorstep of the elite at the Grand Hyatt Tower Islamabad in Islamabad, sections of the media reacted with visible anger? Why have some journalists taken such a strong position on this iss…
Understanding the decline in terrorist incidents

Understanding the decline in terrorist incidents

May 01, 2026
By Sardar Khan Niazi In the months following the launch of Operation Ghazab-ul-Haq, Pakistan has witnessed a noticeable decline in terrorist incidents across several previously volatile regions. While security operations in the country are not new, the…
Have Wars Become a Business?

Have Wars Become a Business?

Apr 30, 2026
 Asif Mahmood Why does the United States fight wars? Is there always a clearly defined objective behind them, or has war itself become the objective? Consider this. In the very first month of the US Iran conflict, the world’s 100 largest oil an…
Punjab Draws a Line: Banning under 18 Child Marriages

Punjab Draws a Line: Banning under 18 Child Marriages

Apr 29, 2026
Iqra Bano Sohail In a sun drenched courtyard in a bustling city of Punjab, a ten year old girl sits on a wooden stool. Her petitite frame overburdened by a heavy red lehenga. The lights glimmer as the aroma of roses fill the house with their scent. Her…
Hindutva Fascism and Bangladesh

Hindutva Fascism and Bangladesh

Apr 29, 2026
Asif Mahmood Hindutva has become a tangible geopolitical force that is steadily eroding regional stability. From Pakistan’s western frontiers, where Indian backed proxies are engaged in fomenting terrorism inside Pakistani territory, to the political l…
Governance vs. Theatrics

Governance vs. Theatrics

Apr 28, 2026
Asif Mahmood The day the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sohail Afridi, was addressing rows of empty chairs in Azad Kashmir, the Punjab government was busy launching three new development projects. The contrast could not be starker. It raises a f…
Talks offer hope, but peace needs courage

Talks offer hope, but peace needs courage

Apr 25, 2026
By Sardar Khan Niazi There are moments in South Asia’s long and complicated history when the language of dialogue returns to the forefront, offering a flicker of hope in an otherwise familiar landscape of tension. Recent signals suggesting renewed will…
Pakistan is hope

Pakistan is hope

Apr 25, 2026
Asif Mahmood Why is Pakistan taking such a keen interest in the negotiations between Iran and the United States? What does it stand to gain? The question is being asked with a certain edge. It deserves a clear answer. At a time when much of the West…
Pakistan in Contemporary Geopolitics

Pakistan in Contemporary Geopolitics

Apr 20, 2026
Asif Mahmood Pakistan has done it. It has achieved what many thought lay beyond its reach, what others did not even dare to attempt. Moments like these do not arrive often in the life of a nation. They carry the quiet weight of answered prayers, as if …
CPIC: Building bridges through information
October 30, 2026 Opinion

CPIC: Building bridges through information

By Sardar Khan Niazi The relationship…

Ambassador Dr. Oumer Invites Rawalpindi Businesses to Explore Ethiopia Investment Potential
October 29, 2026 Latest News | Pakistan

Ambassador Dr. Oumer Invites Rawalpindi Businesses to Explore Ethiopia Investment Potential

H.E. Dr. Oumer H. Oba, Ambassador…

October 29, 2026 Latest News

UNLOCKING GILGIT-BALTISTAN’S STRATEGIC FUTURE WITH PAKISTAN

NOVEMBER 1 AND BEYOND: UNLOCKING GILGIT-BALTISTAN’S…

Uzbekistan Embassy Publishes Investment Catalogue to Boost Economic Ties with Pakistan
October 29, 2026 Latest News

Uzbekistan Embassy Publishes Investment Catalogue to Boost Economic Ties with Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Embassy of Uzbekistan in…

Sardar Khan Niazi

(Tamgh-i-Imtaiz) Journalist, Business Leader, Entrepreneur

Rising medicine prices are becoming a public health crisis

Rising medicine prices are becoming a public health crisis

May 08, 2026
By Sardar Khan Niazi To be fair, the issue is not entirely the result of state negligence. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have faced genuine cost pressures for years. Pakistan relies heavily on imported active pharmaceutical ingredients and raw materials…
Weaponization of Vulnerability in Balochistan

Weaponization of Vulnerability in Balochistan

May 07, 2026
Asif Mahmood The situation in Balochistan is no longer a simple security challenge. It involves violence on the ground, influence online, and a range of hidden networks working in different ways at the same time. In this environment, groups like the Ba…
Grand Hayat : Facts Are Facts

Grand Hayat : Facts Are Facts

May 04, 2026
Asif Mahmood What is the reason that when the law knocked at the doorstep of the elite at the Grand Hyatt Tower Islamabad in Islamabad, sections of the media reacted with visible anger? Why have some journalists taken such a strong position on this iss…
Understanding the decline in terrorist incidents

Understanding the decline in terrorist incidents

May 01, 2026
By Sardar Khan Niazi In the months following the launch of Operation Ghazab-ul-Haq, Pakistan has witnessed a noticeable decline in terrorist incidents across several previously volatile regions. While security operations in the country are not new, the…
Have Wars Become a Business?

Have Wars Become a Business?

Apr 30, 2026
 Asif Mahmood Why does the United States fight wars? Is there always a clearly defined objective behind them, or has war itself become the objective? Consider this. In the very first month of the US Iran conflict, the world’s 100 largest oil an…
Punjab Draws a Line: Banning under 18 Child Marriages

Punjab Draws a Line: Banning under 18 Child Marriages

Apr 29, 2026
Iqra Bano Sohail In a sun drenched courtyard in a bustling city of Punjab, a ten year old girl sits on a wooden stool. Her petitite frame overburdened by a heavy red lehenga. The lights glimmer as the aroma of roses fill the house with their scent. Her…
Hindutva Fascism and Bangladesh

Hindutva Fascism and Bangladesh

Apr 29, 2026
Asif Mahmood Hindutva has become a tangible geopolitical force that is steadily eroding regional stability. From Pakistan’s western frontiers, where Indian backed proxies are engaged in fomenting terrorism inside Pakistani territory, to the political l…
Governance vs. Theatrics

Governance vs. Theatrics

Apr 28, 2026
Asif Mahmood The day the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sohail Afridi, was addressing rows of empty chairs in Azad Kashmir, the Punjab government was busy launching three new development projects. The contrast could not be starker. It raises a f…
Talks offer hope, but peace needs courage

Talks offer hope, but peace needs courage

Apr 25, 2026
By Sardar Khan Niazi There are moments in South Asia’s long and complicated history when the language of dialogue returns to the forefront, offering a flicker of hope in an otherwise familiar landscape of tension. Recent signals suggesting renewed will…
Pakistan is hope

Pakistan is hope

Apr 25, 2026
Asif Mahmood Why is Pakistan taking such a keen interest in the negotiations between Iran and the United States? What does it stand to gain? The question is being asked with a certain edge. It deserves a clear answer. At a time when much of the West…
CPIC: Building bridges through information
October 30, 2026 Opinion

CPIC: Building bridges through information

By Sardar Khan Niazi The relationship…

Ambassador Dr. Oumer Invites Rawalpindi Businesses to Explore Ethiopia Investment Potential
October 29, 2026 Latest News | Pakistan

Ambassador Dr. Oumer Invites Rawalpindi Businesses to Explore Ethiopia Investment Potential

H.E. Dr. Oumer H. Oba, Ambassador…

October 29, 2026 Latest News

UNLOCKING GILGIT-BALTISTAN’S STRATEGIC FUTURE WITH PAKISTAN

NOVEMBER 1 AND BEYOND: UNLOCKING GILGIT-BALTISTAN’S…

Uzbekistan Embassy Publishes Investment Catalogue to Boost Economic Ties with Pakistan
October 29, 2026 Latest News

Uzbekistan Embassy Publishes Investment Catalogue to Boost Economic Ties with Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Embassy of Uzbekistan in…

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