Dr Yasmin Rashid is a senior gynaecologist who became Punjab's health minister and the PTI candidate who kept challenging Nawaz Sharif in Lahore. This plain-English profile covers her medical career, elections, the Covid years,…
Dr Moeed Pirzada went from medicine and the civil service to prime-time television, and then to YouTube commentary from abroad. This plain-English guide covers his education, career and the life sentence a court gave…
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See all Politics Explained →On 23 February 2025 Pakistan met India in Dubai needing to win to stay in their own tournament. They lost by six…
For forty years Pakistan sheltered more Afghans than any other country. Since late 2023 it has been sending them home, first the…
In early 2025 American engineers described carbon-cloth electrodes that strip boron from seawater without the acids and alkalis desalination plants normally use.…
On 14 February 2025 New Zealand beat Pakistan by five wickets in Karachi to win a three-team one-day series. It was meant…
On 8 February 2024 Pakistanis voted in the most disputed election in a generation. This plain-English guide sets out the road to…
Aitzaz Hasan was a 15-year-old student from Hangu who died on 6 January 2014 while stopping a suicide bomber at the gate…
