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Accessibility for Pakistani youth raises concerns over addiction, weak regulation A shop displaying e-cigarettes and vape products. Source: Reuters Pakistan has witnessed a dangerous shift in the way young people are being targeted by the tobacco industry. Once dominated by conventional cigarettes and smokeless forms like naswar and gutka, the market has expanded to include … Read more
My colleague, the book critic Dwight Garner, tells us about “Flesh” by David Szalay, this year’s Booker Prize winner.
An advocate for women’s reproductive health, she started one of the world’s smallest pharmaceutical companies to bring an emergency birth-control method to market.
Ben Jacobson’s caper set in an East Village tenement hinges on the camaraderie of neighbors and teems with energy.
27th Constitutional Amendment overhauled Article 243, recast Pakistan’s military command hierarchy Field Marshal Asim Munir addressing participants of 17th National Workshop Balochistan at the GHQ. Photo: Screengrab ISPR Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir will see a reset in his tenure upon his appointment as Chief of the Defence Forces (CDF) after … Read more
[Fewer women in South Korea are reporting workplace harassment, but those who do say their claims are often not taken seriously or handled sensitively.
As many elite colleges struggle to adapt to the technology, the nation’s most prestigious universities said dozens of students used artificial intelligence tools to cheat.
Companies are offering much-needed, but expensive, air purification systems to shelter from the smog in one of the world’s most polluted cities.
In this horror movie drawn from the Apocrypha, a teen Jesus is both troubled and troubling to his parents. Then along comes a stranger with a serpent.
Policemen examine damaged vehicles after a suicide blast outside the district court in Islamabad on November 11, 2025. Photo: AFP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is weighing its options after investigations revealed that the suicide bombers behind the recent attacks in Islamabad and Wana were Afghan nationals. This development will certainly further strain the already fraught relationship between … Read more
