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Pakistan’s soldiers face a threat that is routinely ignored, i.e., vector-borne diseases. Malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, and Crimean-Congo...
Let me offer a rule that peacemakers have long understood. “Peace through strength” is an oxymoron. Soft power directed towards maintaining and...
Pakistan's robotics debate is still too often framed as a choice between fascination and fear. On one side are videos of humanoids, quadrupeds...
Pakistan’s recent stabilisation has bought time. Reserves have improved. Remittance flows remain resilient. But stabilisation without transformation...
Youm-e-Takbeer is commemorated each year on May 28, marking Pakistan’s response to India’s nuclear weapon tests in both 1974 and 1998. It was...
President Donald Trump’s renewed call for countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Qatar to join the Abraham Accords has once again sparked...
The USA and Chinese relationships are a classic illustration of the metaphor, “Bad marriage”. Analysts, commentators and historians have used this...
On May 20, 2026, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague upheld its earlier ruling affirming the continued validity of the Indus Waters...
Saudi Arabia is a critical but cautious actor in the ongoing Israel–U.S. war against Iran. While not the primary mediator, its role as a regional...
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired”, Eisenhower in his famous Iron Cross speech warned, “is a theft from those...
In April 2026, Gwadar Port handled around 11,000 shipping containers, more than it handled in all of 2025. Officials in Islamabad are calling this...
A few days ago, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) conducted a raid at a call centre in Karachi that sections of the media quickly...
The farmer does not leave wheat out of sentiment. He leaves when the arithmetic forces him to. In Okara, in Sahiwal, and in parts of Bahawalpur and...
Following the first round of direct U.S.-Iran talks held in Islamabad in April this year, the standoff between Tehran and Washington continues....
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.” — William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure There are moments in the constitutional life of...
For the first time since the Iran–US/Israel war began, both Washington and Tehran are officially signalling movement towards a memorandum of...
Pakistan treats wheat procurement as a provincial matter. The market does not. A procurement failure in Punjab travels. It moves through flour prices...
For much of the last two decades, Pakistan’s political leadership, economic managers, and international financial institutions promoted a reassuring...
Nehru was over-conscious of the strategic situation of the Subcontinent lying at the mouth of vital regions of South-East Asia, Central Asia, the...
The high seas of the Mediterranean have once again become a theatre of unpunished brutality, exposing a profound moral rot at the heart of modern...
We are now in the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, the sacred month of Hajj during which Muslims are prohibited from engaging in warfare. This...
In the chaotic early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when laboratories across the world were racing to develop vaccines and antiviral drugs, India...
In Sahiwal, Punjab, one morning, a woman stood on the outskirts of her field, her finger pointing to the grey horizon. She didn't make a gesture...
Every policy distributes risk. Punjab's wheat transition was presented as a technical reform: reduce fiscal exposure, expand private...
“A collection of tax where it is not due is as detestable as its non-payment when it is due.” — Nasim Sikander J, in CIT Companies, Lahore v...
The argument over merging universities in South Punjab is not merely an administrative debate. It is a question about who deserves access to...
Governments often imagine that reform begins when a policy is announced. In commodity markets, reform begins much later: when banks decide whether to...
The standard diagnosis of Pakistani youth and politics goes like this. Young people are apathetic. They don't vote. They don't organise....
On the first of April, in Haroonabad, the wheat was ready. The harvesters had moved through the fields. Grain bags were stacked along the roadside....
Pakistan’s electricity sector debate has become a debate about trust in the public sector. Consumers see rising bills, industry sees weakening...
There is a peculiar arithmetic to governance in contemporary Pakistan, one that defies every textbook on public administration and reduces the grand...
One question - just one - posed by a Norwegian journalist to India’s visiting prime minister has triggered a political and media meltdown that says...
For millions of families across Pakistan, the Benazir Income Support Programme is not a policy debate. It is the difference between eating and not...
There is a growing realisation in Pakistan’s child protection and child rights sector that institutional care is not the best environment for...
The importance of regional alliances in this chaotic world seems to be a better idea to protect the interests of states around the globe. The...
The Sindhi words ‘Karo Kari’ literally mean blackened, stained, disgraced, and are used to describe a man (Karo) and woman (Kari) involved in...
The US–Israel war against Iran highlighted the significance of the sea in shaping geopolitics, not only for the contestants of the war but also for...
There is a dress code that explains everything. White, pressed, effortless, which is precisely the point. The thobe is the Gulf’s most efficient...
The electric supply industry (ESI) formally started when Thomas Edison established two thermal power plants around 1882, first in London and then in...
The UAE today faces an acute dilemma. It is increasingly drifting away from the very Gulf geography where its roots, prosperity and long-term security...
The problem with social media is the algorithm-driven business model that rewards engagement. The more emotional and sensational the content, the...
The recent ruling by the Court of Arbitration in The Hague on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has rekindled tensions between India and Pakistan, with...
For thousands of years, China had stood among the world’s oldest civilisations. It had been the seat of learning, contributing very significantly in...
In April 2025, India placed the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance on the pretext of an attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 civilians in...
The UAE today faces perhaps the most dangerous strategic dilemma in its modern history. Not because Iran has suddenly become hostile. Tehran has...
The recent summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing was more symbolic than substantive, yet it may still prove to be one of the most...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s diplomatic balancing act during his visit to China last month exposed a growing tension within the European...
Pakistan’s forthcoming budget is best understood not as a routine fiscal statement, but as the expression of an economy operating under prolonged...
When the IMF approved Pakistan’s latest programme review in May 2026, it quietly highlighted a contradiction that now sits at the centre of...
The joint recommendations presented on May 12, 2026, by the country’s leading textile and export associations to the Federal Finance Minister,...
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