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While Pakistan waits on aid, Nepal’s low-cost alerts are already saving lives in remote mountain communities. By Mohammad Nafees. Read more: #environmental #flooding #Flood #floods #Pakistan #PakistanFlood #DisasterHHVM #Nepal #landslides #FlashFlooding
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With exports stagnating and corruption unchecked, Pakistan risks losing economic sovereignty unless bold, accountable leadership charts a new course. By Dr Moonis Ahmar. Read: #PakistanLoan #IMF #PakistanEconomy #debtcrisis #foreignloans #CPEC #Exports
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Strategic arrogance masked as connectivity: IMEEC redrew not just trade routes, but the battle lines of a fractured Middle East. By Dr. Ikramul Haq & Engineer Arshad H Abbasi.@DrIkramulHaq. Read more: #IMEEC #Gaza #gazawar #MiddleEastConflict #India
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As India faces US tariffs, Pakistan steps into the spotlight—but real gains depend on reforms, not just rhetoric. By Afifa Kamran. Read more: #USPakistan #USPakistanRelations #Trump #SouthAsia #Policy #trade #Deal #IndiaUSTrade #IndiaUSRelations
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From Jagan Nath to Qadir Bux Bedil, Shikarpur’s libraries tell a story of passion, community, and forgotten legacies. By Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro.@Kalhorozulfiqar. Read more: #Shikarpur #library #legacy #transition #library #Jagannath
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From economic collapse to violent protests, the PTI era revealed how institutional experiments in populism can backfire disastrously. By Mubashir Akram.@mkw72. Read more: #ImranKhan #PTI #Pakistan #populism #Military #Establishment #PoliticalCrisis
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Villagers in Nepal use plastic funnels and rainfall gauges to trigger life-saving landslide warnings. By Mohammad Nafees. Read more: #environmental #flooding #Flood #floods #Pakistan #PakistanFlood #DisasterHHVM #Nepal #landslides #FlashFlooding.
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Nepal’s low-cost, community-led landslide alert system offers Pakistan a practical model to save lives—what’s missing isn’t tech, but political will and
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Pakistan’s rising debt burden is eroding national pride, as foreign loans are celebrated instead of prompting urgent economic reform and self-reliance. By Dr Moonis Ahmar. Read more: #PakistanLoan #IMF #PakistanEconomy #debtcrisis #foreignloans #CPEC.
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Pakistan faces a severe debt crisis with $250 billion owed, risking economic collapse, sovereignty loss, and burdening future generations without reforms
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IMEEC promised peace through trade, but its design sowed exclusion and ignited the flames of the 2023 Gaza War. By Dr. Ikramul Haq & Engineer Arshad H Abbasi.@DrIkramulHaq. Read more: #IMEEC #Gaza #gazawar #MiddleEastConflict #IndiaForeignPolicy.
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IMEEC’s exclusionary design, driven by ambition over inclusion, ignited regional fault lines and helped trigger the devastating Gaza War of October 2023
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Trump courts Pakistan with oil, tariffs, and optics—signalling a possible shift from regional pawn to strategic partner. By Afifa Kamran. Read more: #USPakistan #USPakistanRelations #Trump #SouthAsia #Policy #trade #Deal #IndiaUSTrade #IndiaUSRelations.
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In a surprise shift, the US has slashed tariffs and signed a trade deal with Pakistan, raising questions about strategy, India tensions, and long-term intent
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Shikarpur once brimmed with libraries—homes of scholars, traders, poets. A reading culture now fighting to survive. By Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro.@Kalhorozulfiqar . Read more: #Shikarpur #library #legacy #transition #library #Jagannath.
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Scholars were drawn to Shikarpur because of its expanding business networks, which connected to Central Asia and even Europe
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PTI’s rise was fuelled by propaganda and establishment support—but its fall exposed the fragility of populist politics built on illusion. By Mubashir Akram.@mkw72 . Read more: . #ImranKhan #PTI #Pakistan #populism #Military #Establishment #PoliticalCrisis.
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Imran Khan’s PTI rose through propaganda and patronage, only to collapse into chaos—exposing the dangers of populism backed by powerful institutions
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PTI���s rise was fuelled by propaganda and establishment support—but its fall exposed the fragility of populist politics built on illusion. By Mubashir Akram. Read more: #ImranKhan #PTI #Pakistan #populism #Military #Establishment #PoliticalCrisis.
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Imran Khan’s PTI rose through propaganda and patronage, only to collapse into chaos—exposing the dangers of populism backed by powerful institutions
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Pakistan’s latest tax laws tighten control, but public trust continues to erode amid elite impunity and bureaucratic overreach. By Huzaima Bukhari.@Huzaimabukhari . Read more: #Pakistan #Tax #taxjusticeforall #PakistanTax #FBR #propertytax #nonfilerpolicy.
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The 2025 tax law mandates FBR clearance for property and vehicle purchases, reflecting state overreach, policy failure, and growing public mistrust
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19% Tariff: No Big Deal For Pakistan? | Revisiting NFC Award? Right or Wrong? | India In Trouble? | Najam Sethi | Sethi Say Sawal.@najamsethi with @SyedaAyeshaNaz1 on @SAMAATV. Watch Full Program:
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19% Tariff: No Big Deal For Pakistan? | Revisiting NFC Award? Right or Wrong? | India In Trouble? | Najam Sethi | Sethi Say Sawal.@najamsethi with @SyedaAyeshaNaz1 on @SAMAATV .
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From Babar to Buddhists, Gor Khatri holds centuries under its soil. Peshawar remembers—even when the world forgets. By Pervez Akhtar Khan. Read more: #Peshawar #PeshawarChronicles #BalaHisar #GorKhatri #CulturalHeritage #AncientCities #PakistanHistory
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Despite billions spent and overlapping agencies, Pakistan’s disaster response remains reactive, uncoordinated, and ill-equipped when emergencies strike. By Mohammad Nafees. Read more: #environmentalawareness #Flood #floods #NDMA #PDMA #ClimateCrisis
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