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As of May 2026, the United States is pursuing aggressive maritime enforcement, particularly a blockade of Iranian ports, that both helps and pressures...
“….we are persuaded to hold that Section 7E of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, is ultra vires the Constitution, and is accordingly struck down,...
Like millions around the world, I grew up watching The X-Files—the iconic television show that explored UFOs, alien encounters, and unexplained...
Adopted on 10th November 1975, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 3379 declared Zionism to be a form of racism. The resolution...
In the modern battlefield arenas, timelines matter as much as the technology itself. With the Asia-Pacific being the epicentre of great power...
The Marka-E-Haq is a remembrance of the day our forces fought with bravery and professionalism against the aggressive Indian forces who violated the...
Every year, Pakistan's federal and provincial governments pour billions of rupees into public education, distributing free textbooks, waiving...
Some commentators have recently blamed “solar advocates” in Pakistan for overlooking the inability of solar systems to provide reactive power and...
The dark clouds of a renewed conflict between the United States and Iran, complicated by the strategic imperatives of Israel, do not merely portend a...
Iran war is far from over. Credible reports indicate continued U.S. and Israeli military positioning in Kuwait, the UAE, and adjoining Gulf states...
The origins of modern international humanitarian law are rarely traced to the theatre. We instinctively credit the polished halls of Geneva or the...
Pakistan’s recent inflationary episode is mainly driven by higher fuel prices, freight shipping costs, and insurance charges, caused by oil price...
Every May, as the temperature climbs in the plains below, the headlines arrive in Pakistan with the grim reliability of a recurring illness: soaring...
Some disputes in Pakistan are lazily filed away as “provincial demands”. The assumption is familiar: one province is asking for more money, the...
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) revised fuel prices again this week. As history serves as an indicator, the nation reacted similarly to...
Pakistan has never been short on ‘announced’ ambitions. The present government has taken a clear and increasingly assertive stance to move the...
Somewhere in Pakistan right now, a child in Class 5 is sitting in a government school classroom unable to read a sentence from a Class 2 textbook. She...
Pakistan’s inflation rate reached 10.9% in April 2026, its highest level since July 2024 and, given current fuel-driven price pressures, could move...
There is a special kind of cruelty in telling a man he must tighten his belt while his master feasts at the same table. Yet this is precisely the...
Quaid-i-Azam University is once again in crisis. With midterm examinations scheduled this week, the administration has issued a firm notification:...
What is unfolding between Iran and the United States has evolved far beyond a conventional interstate conflict. It is now a hybrid crisis, with war,...
Author’s Note: This article was penned on February 15 this year in response to Dr Shashi Tharoor’s op-ed in The Indian Express. It was sent to an...
Author’s Note: This article was penned on February 15 this year in response to Dr Shashi Tharoor’s op-ed in The Indian Express. It was sent to an...
“Section 4C is a distinct charge on a distinctly defined base of income, and takes nothing away from the charge of tax under Section 4 or from the...
47 years of hostility between Iran and the United States is now taking a dangerous turn. After 40 days of war, in which the United States and Israel...
47 years of hostility between Iran and the United States is now taking a dangerous turn. After 40 days of war, in which the United States and Israel...
A few days ago, the UAE did something few expected. It walked out of OPEC, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. After nearly six...
On April 28, 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the first-ever High-Level EU-Pakistan Business Forum at Islamabad's Serena Hotel,...
The legal order lays claim to the grand proclamation that each person is born equal and shall be treated as such. However, this assertion is...
When the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was formed in 1968 and subsequently enforced in 1970, after a deadlock of many years of negotiations...
Imagine a bank that has mismanaged a loan for decades, only to blame the borrower for the bankruptcy. Picture a corporation that has recklessly...
For 78 years, millions have been denied justice, denied timely redress, trapped in poverty, crushed by delay, and stripped of dignity. If...
The confrontation between Donald Trump and Ali Hosseini Khamenei stands as one of the most intense and risky rivalries in recent international...
The idea of Pakistan as a major trade corridor—whether for Central Asia, China, or the wider Eurasian system—has an intuitive geopolitical appeal....
The 2026 conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran has moved into a stage characterised less by sustained open warfare than by a...
The land of the Middle East has been damp with the smell of gunpowder and the blood of the innocent for decades, but in recent years, the rising...
With 20% of global trade under consistent risk through Hormuz, Pakistan is already receiving diverted cargo but lacks policy readiness to retain it....
Pakistan's persistent economic failures mirror political and governance dysfunction. It has become a fact deepened by our national fallacy of...
In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to commemorate 24 April as the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy...
The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has promulgated the Trade Dispute Resolution Rules, 2026, instituting a structured legal framework for the expeditious,...
Asia Society Policy Institute has produced a wide-ranging, perceptive, forward-looking, and analytically rigorous report on Asian middle powers....
Artificial intelligence has emerged as an enigmatic technological agency, creating a seismic impact on human life worldwide. The wonder of the...
Two governments sit across a table. Both understand that a deal leaves both sides better off. Neither moves first. This is not stupidity. It is the...
Electoral democracy is held to be the opposite of dictatorship and other forms of authoritarianism. Paradoxically, it can be turned into a step...
This year marks 56 years since the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was signed, and on the 27th of April, its 11th Review...
For a moment, let your imagination fly. It is October 27, 1962. U.S. destroyers are harassing Soviet submarine B-59 with practice depth charges to...
Every few months, headlines report another boat capsizing in the Mediterranean or the Aegean. In April 2026, at least 20 Pakistanis went missing off...
“An ideal tax system should consist of the lowest possible tax rate on the broadest possible tax base”— Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) in Muqaddimah...
Friday’s separate telephone conversations between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Foreign...
Justice in Pakistan has increasingly begun not with a witness statement but with screenshots. A WhatsApp conversation or a viral video clip can now...
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