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As the global order transitions toward multipolarity and emerging economies increasingly seek alternatives to Western-led institutions, BRICS has...
Pakistan is preparing to privatize some of its electricity distribution companies at precisely the moment when the electricity business itself is...
On 30th July, the Interior Minister delivered a very important speech at Pakistan’s first economic summit at the Jinnah Convention Centre in...
Pakistan does not need a hard state. It needs a development state. Egypt is a hard state; Vietnam is a development state. Anyone serious about...
Children who come into conflict with the law are often regarded as criminals for the rest of their lives. While the circumstances behind their...
There is an old saying: when a jeweller begins to wield a blacksmith’s hammer, one must ask whether he is truly a jeweller or whether he intends to...
Pakistan’s economic journalism had a better week than usual, with stories on exports, food insecurity, energy pricing, Islamic finance, agricultural...
The Saudi Arabia-Türkiye-Pakistan defence pact is a watershed in regional security because it brings together three major Muslim states with...
Pakistan’s greatest sporting tragedy is not the absence of talent. It is the habit of forcing talent to survive without a system, then calling...
The signing of a trilateral Joint Security and Defence Pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye at the Makkah Summit marks one of the most...
For a long time, Pakistan’s education debate has been dominated by numbers: how many children are in school, how many remain outside it, how many...
There were hasty celebrations over the Islamabad MoU signed on 17 June 2026. It indeed put Islamabad in a prominent spot on the stage of world...
A taxpayer who misses a statutory deadline may lose the right of appeal, face recovery proceedings, pay default surcharge and suffer penalties. What...
Pakistan is a unique country in the sense that following the abrogation of one unit in 1970, it has four provinces. The fifth province called as East...
Since the very beginning of Pakistan’s journey as an independent nation, a persistent stream of pessimism has accompanied its development. This...
Chaghi, an area that lies under the scorching sun with almost non-existent vegetation, caught investors' attention when it revealed its untapped...
There is a question that has stayed with me throughout my years of working closely with development, agriculture, climate resilience, and public...
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts...
Every decade, Pakistan rediscovers the governance debate. The actors change, the slogans evolve and the proposed solutions differ, but the underlying...
The seventh anniversary of India's abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A passed this week with remarkably little attention in Pakistan's...
About 16 years ago, writing in another newspaper, I proposed the idea of 20 geographic provinces for Pakistan. I have since reconsidered my position...
The debate over the creation of new provinces in Pakistan is not a new phenomenon. However, in recent years, this issue has acquired extraordinary...
Pakistan’s National Artificial Intelligence Policy promises scale: one million trained professionals, thousands of trainers and scholarships, new...
The establishment wants to redraw the map. Pakistan's crisis was never about the map. Mohsin Naqvi has given an old idea a new sales pitch....
One of the most important messages in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment on Pakistan has...
In the last two weeks, I published three pieces in the Friday Times, in which I proposed a “controlled, negotiated” economic default. It was not a...
On 30 July 2026, Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal announced that the National Flood Protection Plan would be placed before the Council of...
Pakistan is currently embroiled in intense debate over remarks made by Federal Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi, who advocated for creating new...
This Youth Day, August 12, I will wait to hear an awakened dreamer from Pakistan's Gen Z. I suspect I will keep waiting. Look around the...
River Indus and Sindh have lower riparian rights under customary international law as well as the Madrid Declaration; the Declaration of Montevideo;...
Section 1: The Country Is Not Going Broke—Its Social Contract IsPakistan is frequently portrayed as a country perpetually on the brink of...
Mohsin Naqvi's declaration that Pakistan's governance system has collapsed was not a diagnosis. It was a confession. At the Pakistan...
Few constitutional reforms in Pakistan have enjoyed the political consensus and public acclaim accorded to the 18th Constitutional Amendment. Passed...
For every nation, there comes a defining moment when it must decide what kind of future it wishes to build. For Pakistan, that moment is now. While...
ISLAMABAD — The Federal Constitutional Court on Friday (July 24) agreed to reconsider its own judgment upholding the marriage of a 13-year-old...
Few courtroom verdicts generate as much public debate as the acquittal of an accused person. Headlines often describe the outcome as a setback for...
The recent Baloch strife is begotten out of the decades long neglect of the periphery by the core in Pakistan. The aetiology of the present strife...
Pakistan’s primary maritime energy corridors are currently affected by the regional conflict. The Strait of Hormuz has been blocked since the...
Ghulam Rasool (14), a resident of Sargodha, has not been able to sleep properly for the past three weeks. According to his father, he suffers from an...
Last week the Food Security Minister announced that Pakistan would import wheat. The decision was presented as market stabilisation. It is better...
Political crises do not always begin with the rumble of tanks. More often, they begin with a remark that appears, on the face of it, quite ordinary...
“The United States is losing ground to China—not because of Chinese aggression, but because of internal dysfunction, elite failure, and strategic...
The few days of rains in central Punjab districts have once again caused massive inundation of rain water along Deg Nala from district Narowal to...
Imagine opening a small restaurant in Pakistan. Before you serve a single meal, you will deal with the food authority, the cantonment or municipal...
There are industries that dominate headlines, and there are industries that quietly sustain nations. Pakistan’s Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)...
AbstractPakistan’s exchange-rate debate is usually reduced to the rupee–dollar rate. That misses the policy variable that matters for trade: the...
The Iran conflict has done more than reshape Middle Eastern geopolitics: It has exposed deeper contradictions in contemporary political discourse and...
In Pakistan, there is much debate about why under successive governments, there has not been sustained economic growth. Over the last 80 years of...
After the rise of a youth-led movement in India called the Cockroach Janta Party, many writers and analysts are wondering if something similar could...
1. Economic journalism under review Journalism: releases reported, systems left unexplored The current-account story got the arithmetic right and...
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