Wars are often imagined through images of missiles, fighter jets and frontlines. Yet the most powerful battles rarely appear on television screens. They unfold silently in markets, fuel stations and electricity bills. For millions of Pakistanis today, the conflict unfolding across the Middle East-particularly tensions involving Iran, Israel and the United States-is already shaping daily […]
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Hidden HIV Crisis
That Pakistan was named among the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics, with new infections tripling since 2010, should be a national alarm. Instead, all we got was a polite press note. At World AIDS Day, officials quoted grim stats (16,000 cases in 2010 versus 48,000 in 2024) and our leaders quickly moved on. […]
Hidden meaning behind Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s baby girl’s name revealed!
Barbadian pop star Rihanna and her rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky are finally girl-parents and their daughter has been named Rocki Irish Mayers. But you will be surprised to know the special nod behind the unusual name. It came as a surprise for many when Grammy-winning musician and beauty mogul Rihanna, 37, and her longtime partner […]
On Washington DC’s hidden Islamic trail
The ‘David’-like physiology and ‘Nike’ wings were Greco-Roman, but his turban, beard and ‘semitic’ face, were unmistakably of the East. He sat majestically with one arm under his chin and his right foot atop a distilling retort. “Those figures represent the building blocks of Western civilization. There’s Spain, England, the Middle Ages, even Islam is […]