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Look at the screen long enough, and the numbers stop being prices. They become a verdict. Murban near 120 dollars, Urals at 121, the China marker at...
About seventy-six years ago, a newly independent Pakistan became one of the first Muslim countries to recognize the People’s Republic of China....
The Pakistan Peoples Party’s struggle against the working classes and progressive nationalist forces, accompanied by its shift to the Right,...
President Donald Trump came remarkably close on Sunday to ordering US strikes against Yemen's Houthis. According to The New York Times, military...
Almost nobody has named the culprit, though everyone in Pakistan knows the victim: the household paying Rs 114 in levy on every litre of...
Any proposal for a Karachi province must begin by taking the people of Sindh into confidence. Karachi has deep historical, cultural and economic ties...
A retired civil servant, educated at the London School of Economics and Harvard University, recently posted a brief observation on X that carries...
Following the controversial proposal to create new provinces, debate over a new local government system has now emerged in an increasingly contentious...
Water reaching the Arabian Sea is called waste. That sentence has been emptying the Indus Delta for seventy years. “We can understand the pain of...
What is the state for? What does it owe its citizens, and what rights can citizens claim against it? These questions have occupied political...
Federations particularly those created by the will of the geographically and historically recognized political and cultural sub-nationals, require a...
The recent offensive of the Ansarallah (i.e., Houthis) where they have swept the west coast and controlled the Bab al Mandeeb as well as threatened...
Pakistan emerged from the turmoil and trauma at the turn of the 1970s, as major political forces including nationalists such as Wali Khan and Ajmal...
“The Shudras are the life and sinews of the country”, Jyotirao Phule wrote in Gulamgiri in 1873. More than a century later, researchers in a...
FBR keeps squeezing visible taxpayers while informality, distortion and leakage remain built into the system. Every budget season, Pakistan returns to...
Famous politician, diplomat, and intellectual par excellence, Pir Ali Mohammad Shah Rashdi, recalls in his autobiography Uhe Deenhan, Uhe Sheenhan...
The Pakistan Movement emerged within the colonial framework to safeguard the interests of Muslim elites, middle and professional classes in the...
“Passion warps the rule even of the best men”. Aristotle Corruption is perhaps Pakistan’s most frequently diagnosed disease and its least...
The politics of provincialism was further strengthened by the Nehru Report. In response to the Simon Commission, the All-Parties Conference, held in...
Pakistan has been facing one crisis after the other since its birth. It lost its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah within months; its first Prime Minister,...
Repeated surge in the prices of petroleum products, electricity, gas and other essential items and the lack of popular response against the rising...
There comes a point when a country’s crisis is no longer confined to budget tables, policy speeches, or televised debates. It is felt in the daily...
As an administrative unit, there were provinces even before the Partition of India and, indeed, before the British occupation. However, although the...
There is nothing inherently political about eating vegetarian food. But when the Government of India invites visiting heads of state to an official...
On Independence Day, NADRA announced that Pakistan's national identity card would no longer carry a microprocessor chip. In its place sit two QR...
The signing of the Tripartite Makkah Joint Defense Agreement among Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye marks a significant development in the...
President Asif Ali Zardari has apparently taken a tough stand on the division of Sindh as part of the establishment’s plan of carving out more...
Afghanistan is not cursed because copper lies beneath Logar, lapis beneath Badakhshan or iron beneath Bamiyan. It has been cursed by political choices...
Pakistan’s state-owned enterprise (SOE) problem is no longer a question of diagnosis. It is a question of economic cost. For years, governments have...
When former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon walked away from his job this month warning that "superhuman systems" could bring human...
For much of the past decade, competition among the world's major powers has been one of the central organizing principles of U.S. foreign policy....
“A bad system will beat a good person every time” W. Edwards Deming Pakistan has developed an unfortunate fascination with reform on paper. We...
Final part of a three-part series on redesigning Pakistan’s civil service. Redesigning Pakistan’s civil service around professional...
The Colorado River crisis carries a warning for Pakistan: allocating water is not the same as governing scarcity. The Colorado River is running short...
Fact 1: Pakistan continues to invest heavily in conventional and strategic defense (The 2026-27 defense allocation is Rs. 3 trillion, up by 17.65%)...
Pakistan was created with the promise of a society in which citizenship, rather than religion, would determine the rights and dignity of an...
Pakistan’s water future will be decided not only by how much flows down the Indus, but by what we pump, what we grow and how efficiently we use it....
The Company collector began in extraction. The Crown-era Indian Civil Service, however, became a trained field administration with a substantial...
Every few weeks, Pakistan's Minister for Planning, Ahsan Iqbal, and the Prime Minister step off a plane in Beijing and recite the same well-worn...
The latest US-Iran exchange and Benjamin Netanyahu's avowed shift from containment to persistent prevention make the 1996 strategy paper newly...
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