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The fog of terrorism creates an environment in which decision-makers are forced to act under conditions of fear, uncertainty, ambiguity, incomplete...
Pakonomics encircles harmonic disorder of Pakistan's economic system, whose dysfunctional components synchronise and produce a vulnerable future,...
For more than two decades, Pakistan has been grappling with internal security challenges along its western borders, particularly in the province of...
Seventeen dead, more than twenty wounded, an entire district placed under emergency - this is the arithmetic of Sunday's suicide bombing outside...
The MQM-P is in disarray as recent infighting exposes its deep fault lines. Once the heartthrob of Karachiites for defending the city's rights,...
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, most of Pakistan has experienced either near normal or below normal rainfall in the month of...
Throughout the world, successful federations have consistently recognised that as populations grow and economies become more complex, governments must...
Some twenty years ago during my post-doctoral years, when I first began engaging with researchers in Pakistan, I was pleased to see that colleagues...
Last Sunday at around 11pm, I went to a restaurant about two miles from my home with my wife and children for dinner. As we sat waiting for our meal,...
Pakistan's climate advocacy scene is hiding a problem few people want to talk about. The very organisations funded to fight environmental...
No one should die of rabies in 2026. It is among the deadliest diseases known to medicine, yet it is also among the most preventable. That Sindh has...
Being on the roads of Pakistan - as a driver, rider or pedestrian - can be a fatal gamble. Punjab alone tells the story in numbers: Rescue 1122...
Pakistan is facing a profound security crisis as militant violence hit a sharp peak in July 2026. During this deadliest month, over 112 security...
Ebola is a deadly disease. It can kill up to 90% of those infected. Its recent outbreak started in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in late May,...
He was a college dropout, and after trying his hand at various menial jobs, he apprenticed himself to a private internet provider of his locality....
Although in recent years the rate of growth of India's population has slowed down which means that it is ageing, the proportion of older people...
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Balochistan is perhaps Pakistan's...
The recent protest by over 300 sanitation workers in Rawalpindi is a damning indictment of how Pakistan treats the men and women whose blood, sweat...
The idea that there are people dying in Pakistan because they lack access to air-conditioning seems like a convoluted, tone-deaf take by a...
The number of children orphaned by the Israeli onslaught has crossed 60,000, and there is no sign that the Zionist government can be shamed into...
The biggest mistake anyone in today's Pakistan can make is to assume that business as usual is ok. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi's shocker...
There is a quiet but catastrophic crisis unfolding in the digital world - one not driven by rogue machines or science-fiction scenarios, but by...
Experiment. Experience. Fail. Rename. Repeat. This has been the recurring tale of the country since its inception. Every panacea tried proved to be a...
The best way to promote liberal values is to educate children. Historically, prosperous, well-functioning and successful societies have always...
For Pakistan's coal miners, the greatest danger has never been the darkness beneath the earth but the indifference above it. Negligence this time...
The reignition of tensions in the Middle East is worrying planners in the Ministry of Finance, who are now accepting that inflation is going to be a...
The contention that the present system is not delivering is not new. It has been debated for decades, as we experimented with democracy,...
Hard work, dedication and personal growth are often thought of as factors that lead to success. In many cultures including collectivist societies like...
Mohsin Naqvi - the second most powerful figure in Pakistan's present hybrid system - made a series of striking admissions during the Economic...
There is awkward, and then there is standing in a room full of strangers watching a corpse get peeled. In the 1800s, wealthy Europeans somehow decided...
The year was 2003. I was between jobs and desperate. Islamabad, even then, was an expensive city and I was running out of money. I had a regular...
Pakistan's men's football team will step onto unfamiliar ground later this year when it competes in the inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup in...
Karachi has learnt to live with violence. It knows what it means to live under the shadow of extortion rackets and organised criminal syndicates. That...
Pakistan threw its weight behind diplomacy as it vowed to bring the arch-foes, the US and Iran, back to the table. The Foreign Office on Thursday...
In 1963, Charles de Gaulle asked a question that Washington never really answered: would an American president actually trade New York for Paris?...
Since India announced that it would hold the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance, debate in Pakistan has focused overwhelmingly on river flows,...
The US just celebrated its 250th anniversary of independence. In 1978, British theorist John Glubb proposed that major historical empires average...
Birthday anniversaries are meant for celebration. When it is USA's 250th year of existence, it becomes problematic to overlook some...
After a long hiatus, the PTI has apparently decided to flex its muscles and kickstart a mass-contact campaign. Its decision to stage a public rally on...
Pakistan is in the grip of a hepatitis crisis of staggering proportions. With an estimated 12 to 15 million people infected with hepatitis B or C, the...
Under the Punjab Vagrancy (Amendment) Act 2025, begging was made a non-bailable offence in the province last year, with 'ringleaders' facing...
Answering unwarranted criticism of the Military in this space last week, we discussed Military (read Army) take-overs, and Military not allowing...
Before the National Gemstone Policy reached its present form, an international investor submitted a legal and commercial paper to the government...
Elon Musk and a bunch of other white supremacists have a common whine about immigration of non-white people into the western society. And the reason...
This July added another entry to a growing list of uncomfortable international assessments about Pakistan. The European Commission's GSP ...
HIV in Sindh is more widespread than initially believed: this is the inescapable conclusion one has to draw from the latest infections uncovered at...
Pakistan is trapped in an abusive relationship with the monsoon season, as the same rains that are crucial for farmers are death-bringers for people...
Marred by protests, the first phase of the AJK Legislative Assembly elections has ended with a PML-N victory in the Mirpur division. The PML-N...
The term civilisation entered popular imagination in 1993 when Professor Samuel Huntington published his seminal article, The Clash of Civilizations,...
What is in a name? Should rose smell as same when we call it by another name, asks William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Toponymic politics has...
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