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Poetry
Arooba Ali

From Soil to Sky

  I was born on the soil where the Earth is kind, Where love and joy are easy to find. The soil is so rich and pure, It holds my

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Society
Umaiza Shakir

The Price of Owing

The Loss of Autonomy Has a Price The wrong lender can very well be affiliated with the devil himself. The amount that is bestowed when everything else turns you away

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Sports
Ch. Ghulam Mujtaba Murala

Matt Renshaw – the Making of a Star

Matt Renshaw did not come out of an Australian academy. He came out of a driveway, and the man who designed it studies for a living how human beings learn

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Politics
Maryam Awan

When Streets Shape Politics

Over the past four years, South Asia has seen the collapse of three governments: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Each had a different motive. Sri Lanka faced financial collapse, Bangladesh

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Philosophy
Iqra Fatima

Can We Trust Our Memories Anymore?

It is said that practice makes one effective, and refraining from it produces useless things that will never exist. This phrase is uplifting and has stepped into the area of

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Poem Of The Day
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Forgetfulness” — Billy Collins

  The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have

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The Lanyard” — Billy Collins

  The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on

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Pakistan
Zahabiyya Zubairu

The Politics of Pakistan’s Water Crisis

The water crisis of Pakistan does not affect agriculture alone, where water is utilised for the planting of crops and the rearing of animals. In the cultivation of crops, water

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Current Affairs
Faleha Hakim

The Return of Private Armies

Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have been operating for a while now. They provide assistance to countries or groups through private militaries and intelligence to carry out proxy work,

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“The City” — C. P. Cavafy

You said, “I will go to another land, I will go to another sea. Another city will be found, a better one than this. Every effort of mine is a

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Philosophy
Amir Noorani

When Patience Becomes Complicity

Patience, as we have always been told, is a sublime virtue. We often see it embroidered on cushions, printed on office posters, used as kitchen fridge magnets, and offered as

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A Blessing” — James Wright

Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those two Indian ponies Darken with kindness. They have come gladly out

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Culture
Minaal Tayyab

The Night-Shift Transit Penalty

Ten past eleven on a weekday night, and the big city office blocks are not empty. Support agents are fielding software trouble calls, editors are cutting tomorrow’s broadcast, and logistics

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Culture
Ayesha Umer

The Villains We Secretly Prefer

Honestly, it is not always the hero with a perfect personality and a bundle of good habits that inspires the reader; rather, it is a transgressive, yet more transparent character

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Psychology
Zoha Ahsan

Can Envy Ever Be Useful?

Envy is a taboo emotion we learn to suppress from a young age. It is the feeling that is rarely discussed at dinner parties, reserved instead for therapy or late-night

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“Pike” — Ted Hughes

Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin. They dance on the surface among the flies. Or

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Sylvia Plath
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Mirror- Sylvia Plath

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful‚

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Culture
Mohattar Bashir Mughal

Notes on the Neighbourhood Barber

The chime above a barber-shop door is a threshold I seldom cross without feeling a bit like an unwitting eavesdropper. Some of my earliest memories are of my father and

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Culture
Humaira Taj

Adulthood Without a Door of Your Own

There is a lock on nobody’s door here. Not because families do not trust their children, but because the children never got a door that was fully theirs to lock.

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Entertainment
Hasan Ajmal

My Avengers: Endgame Encore Review

No one told me it was gonna be better the second time, but what an experience it was to watch Endgame in theatres again. Revisiting things in your life which

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Society
Hifza Faraz

The Unpaid Internship Gatekeeping

Earning while learning seems to be a romantic achievement for the working class. A graduating student — surrounded by peers securing market exposure, developing skills, and landing professional roles before

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Letters To The Editor
Dr. Suzanna Javed

Bermuda, Beautiful Waters, and Finding Calm

On September 18th, I packed my bags and prepared for something I had never done before: my first cruise! Was I excited? Absolutely. Was I anxious? Also absolutely. 😂 I

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Philosophy
Zoha Ahsan

Is Nostalgia a Philosophical Trap?

Nostalgia feels harmless. It arrives in the form of a song, a familiar scent, or an old photograph, illuminating the past just a bit more brightly than it deserves. However,

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