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				<title><![CDATA[A season among seasons]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:26:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[People walk in a market in this undated image of a market. &mdash; AFP/File<p>Human history is replete with periods in which certain powers ascended and then melted away. Nothing is everlasting except movement. From one phase to the next, from one episode to the other, from one realm to...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[SCO: How Pakistan prevailed over India]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:25:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar participated in SCO CFMs meeting in Tianjin, China on July 15, 2025. &mdash; X/@ ForeignOfficePk<p>The Consul of Foreign Ministers meeting  of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation  has yet again shown how Pakistan has diplomatically come to the centre stage...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Operation Sindoor: Rhetoric and reality]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:47:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[India&rsquo;s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri holds a press briefing with Indian army officials following India&rsquo;s military strikes on Pakistan, in New Delhi, India on May 7, 2025. &mdash; Reuters<p>On July 4, 2025, date coincidence notwithstanding &ndash; Indian Deputy Chief of Army...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Saving the economy]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:51:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A currency broker stands near his booth, which is decorated with pictures of currency notes, while dealing with customers, along a road in Karachi on January 27, 2023. &mdash; Reuters<p class="">As Pakistan began another financial year this month, amid widespread scepticism, the...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Why the rupee keeps faltering]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:31:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A foreign currency changer counts Pakistani rupee notes at a shop in Karachi, on March 2, 2023. &mdash; Online<p class="">This isn't just a question for economists; it affects every Pakistani, from the price of imported wheat to fuel costs and national standing. While short-term fixes like...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Let's have a young election]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:07:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A voter with an ink mark on the thumb goes through paperwork to cast a vote during the general election in Karachi, on February 8, 2024. &mdash; Reuters<p>Zohran Mamadani is well on his way to becoming the mayor of New York. This is a win from the lens of representation: a young South Asian...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[The IWT threat]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/613896-the-iwt-threat]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:04:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A view of Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, on the Chenab river which flows from IIOJK into Pakistan, at Chanderkote in Jammu region on May 6, 2025. &mdash; Reuters<p class="">The Permanent Court of Arbitration  in The Hague has delivered a landmark judgment...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[The price of passive shareholding]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/613763-the-price-of-passive-shareholding]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:39:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A view of the K-Electric head office in Karachi. &mdash; K-Electric website/File<p class="">When Pakistan auctioned a 73% stake in the then Karachi Electric Supply Company  in November 2005, the transaction was sold as a textbook case of how privatisation could cut fiscal leakages and...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Atlantis in the making]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:10:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A man pushes his bike as he wades through a flooded road during the monsoon season in Karachi. &mdash; Reuters/File<p>Nature does not exist in isolation. It has an intrinsic relationship with how we treat it. If we extend it the dignity it deserves, it responds in kind. Treat it with...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Climate hypocrisy]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:05:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[ A boy makes his way through stranded flood water, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera. &mdash; Reuters/File<p>They gather in climate-controlled halls, draped in imported fabrics, sipping organic teas flown in from across the globe. Their speeches are...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's poverty conundrum]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/613487-pakistans-poverty-conundrum]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:17:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A girl balances herself while walking on an abandoned railway track in a slum area in Karachi, Pakistan July 10, 2023. &mdash; Reuters<p class="">The World Bank&rsquo;s 2025 assessment delivers a sobering reality check: In 2025, the extreme poverty rate in Pakistan, measured by the World...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[When aid becomes a weapon]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/613305-when-aid-becomes-a-weapon]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:05:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A representational image showing a person using a syringe to extract vaccine from a vile. &mdash; Reuters/File<p class="">The recent decision of the American administration to restrict the approval of two COVID vaccines indicates that the US cannot only decimate millions of people by...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bacha to Imran: Story of KP's swing]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/613307-bacha-to-imran-story-of-kps-swing]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:53:56 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur interacts with PTI founder Imran Khan in this undated image. &mdash; APP/File<p>In the 2018 general elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , led by former cricketer Imran Khan, stormed to a majority, surprising analysts and unsettling the...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Let human rights be]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:35:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[People attend a protest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram district on November 22, 2024. &mdash; Reuters<p class="">Civil society organisations  in Pakistan are currently enduring one of the most challenging periods in the country&rsquo;s history. Any CSO that advocates for...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's invisible AI workforce]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/613134-pakistans-invisible-ai-workforce]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:03:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words "Artificial Intelligence AI" in this illustration taken on February 19, 2024. &mdash; Reuters<p class="">In a modest Lahore flat at 2am, he opens his laptop to a queue of grim images: a child's bruised face, a burning...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Regulators at the edge]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/612950-regulators-at-the-edge]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Jul 2025 10:32:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[A message reading "AI artificial intelligence", a keyboard, and robot hands are seen in this illustration taken January 27, 2025. &mdash; Reuters<p class="">In the next three to five years, the global media landscape will change more profoundly than it has in the last three...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[River of no return]]></title>
				<link><![CDATA[https://www.geo.tv/latest/612614-river-of-no-return]]></link>
				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:47:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[Residents gather, after tourists, who were on a picnic, were swept away by overflowing floodwaters in the Swat River, in Swat Valley on June 27, 2025. &mdash; Reuters<p>Occasionally, there is an image or a thought that haunts you for days and disturbs your sleep. You are emotionally...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Empire after Ashura]]></title>
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	            	<![CDATA[Pilgrims gather ahead of Ashura in Kerbala, Iraq, September 19, 2018. &mdash; Reuters<p>It was a day of carnage with no precedents before or after the massacre in Karbala almost 1400 years ago, on the 10th day of 'Muharram' &ndash; the Islamic month. Imam Hussain  and all other men...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[Debris of systemic collapse]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:44:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[The Parliament of Pakistan. &mdash; APP/File<p>Unsustainable that our national political environment has been since times far gone, I could never imagine that, not too far into the future, we could be heading towards total systemic collapse.</p><p>We have not only travelled a fair distance...]]>
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				<title><![CDATA[After the budget]]></title>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Jul 2025 11:22:00 +05:00]]></pubDate>				
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	            	<![CDATA[This is a representational image of budget papers. &mdash; Canva/File<p>The budget has been passed. The applause has faded. Once again, Pakistan resumes its uneasy journey through economic difficulty this time, with a roadmap that feels more serious than in previous years.</p><p>The federal...]]>
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