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The missing water account

The missing water account

Pakistan can put a dollar figure on wheat cargo. It is much less willing to put an economic cost against the water decisions that help determine...

monday 20

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Mohsin Leghari

Speaking the truth

Speaking the truth

Pakistan has demonstrated that it can command attention on the global stage through defense and diplomacy. The more consequential question, however,...

monday 10

Pakistan Today Profit

Muhammad Azfar Ahsan

Beyond the accord: How Pakistan must learn to govern scarcity

Beyond the accord: How Pakistan must learn to govern scarcity

Two of the world’s most intensively managed river basins are confronting versions of a problem Pakistan can no longer postpone. In the American...

05.10.2026 30

Pakistan Today Profit

Mohsin Leghari

Pakistan’s crypto opportunity starts where adoption rankings end

Pakistan’s crypto opportunity starts where adoption rankings end

Pakistan ranks third globally for crypto adoption, which makes a question more important than the ranking itself: What, exactly, has the country...

05.10.2026 30

Pakistan Today Profit

Vugar Usi Zade

The reset state

The reset state

A country can change its government without changing the way it is governed. It can rewrite laws, create committees, launch programs and announce...

05.10.2026 30

Pakistan Today Profit

Muhammad Azfar Ahsan

Forging the economic engine

Pakistan does not lack potential. It lacks an economic engine capable of converting that potential into sustained national strength. We have the raw...

01.10.2026 20

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Muhammad Azfar Ahsan

Is Peshawar a part of Pakistan-proper?

Peshawar valley has recently been subjected to an interesting analysis, where the region is declared a part of “Pakistan-proper”, i.e. a region...

01.10.2026 10

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Imran Khan

The Final Eight Percent: Pakistan's Bet on Digital Finance

On 14 July, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was told that 92% of inbound remittances already travel through a digital channel – and instructed...

01.10.2026 10

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Vugar Usi Zade

The State must deliver

A state does not earn legitimacy because it exists. It earns legitimacy when citizens can feel that it works. For the ordinary citizen, the state is...

01.10.2026 20

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Muhammad Azfar Ahsan

Pakistan must stop growing crops it cannot afford to water

For decades, Pakistan has asked the wrong questions about its agriculture. How much wheat did we grow? How many bales of cotton? How many tonnes of...

01.10.2026 30

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Mohsin Leghari

Same Banks, Different Field

Every few months a chart makes the rounds.  It shows bank credit to the private sector as a share of GDP: Pakistan at about 11%, Sri Lanka at 30%,...

01.10.2026 60

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Zafar Masud

The next move

For years, Pakistan has become remarkably good at answering the wrong question: how do we get through the next crisis? The more important question has...

01.10.2026 20

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Muhammad Azfar Ahsan

Competitive Pakistan

For decades, Pakistan has treated economic survival as though it were economic progress. We stabilize the currency, negotiate the next financing...

01.10.2026 20

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Muhammad Azfar Ahsan

Can Pakistan build data centres without deepening its water crisis?

The world is increasingly moving towards achieving greater degrees of AI sovereignty–that is, the ability to develop, deploy, and regulate AI...

01.10.2026 10

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Zahra Niazi

Documented houses, undocumented borrowers

For most of Pakistan’s independent history, its mortgage market has been a curiosity — an entire asset class that existed on paper but barely...

01.10.2026 100

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Zafar Masud