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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: K2

Not just on top of the world—Pakistani women create history by scaling ‘treacherous’ mount K2

PM Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Samina Baig in a tweet, who became the first Pakistani woman to scale mount K2—3 hours before fellow climber Naila Kiani.

Nelly Attar, Lebanese mountaineer, climbing for women in Pakistan, Middle East

Pakistan expects to host over 1,400 mountaineers from across the globe. This is a marked rise from the 550 climbers last year.

Shehroze Kashif in Guinness Records is the pride of Pakistan—youngest to scale Everest, K2

The 19-year-old from Lahore was also the youngest Pakistani to scale Everest on 6 May this year.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.