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Democratic gains across Congress and key state elections signal a shifting American political landscape, as voters challenge Trump-era politics while...
The United States midterm elections may have delivered a significant political setback to the Republican Party and President Donald Trump, but their...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election on 25 October 2026 is more than another demonstration of political resilience. Raza Rumi, writing in The...
Two years ago, Donald Trump appeared to have it all. He had won back the White House, carried the popular vote, and secured both houses of Congress....
As the year 2026 is ending, a number of questions are being raised about security of Persian Gulf particularly in the aftermath of Iran-U.S-Israel war...
This week the State Bank raised its policy rate to 12 percent. The fiscal surplus halved, even though revenue beat its target. The government...
Economists argue that a currency must reflect a country's economic fundamentals. They are right. Artificially supporting an overvalued rupee...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly known as Lula, has won the second round of the presidential election held on 25 October 2026,...
The world’s most powerful military can destroy installations thousands of miles away, but cannot shield its citizens from war’s economic...
The elections of 27th October 2026 in Israel manufactured a new crisis where the Arab parties Joint List and Raam became the king maker and dilemma...
The stampede at a TikToker's mehndi ceremony in Sialkot, reported by Dawn on October 31, left one man dead and more than 14 injured. Hundreds had...
Pakistan’s proposed $2.25 billion battery Giga-factory presents a question that goes well beyond manufacturing lithium-ion cells: can an economy...
It is high time we got down to the nuts and bolts of devolution, dispensed with the intellectual calisthenics and stopped wandering through political...
Pakistan’s capacity to mobilise taxes is greatly under-explored. With a tax to GDP ratio of 8.5% along with an undeclared economy almost the size of...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again. On Sunday, Brazilians returned him to the presidency for a fourth time, with 51.8 per cent of the vote...
The exchange of accusations between Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Defence Minister Khawaja Asif in Parliament has once again brought Pakistan’s...
They left this world. Their images, empty chairs, and misdeeds stayed. The scars of injuries they inflicted on the nation stayed in the pages of...
I have been writing about the emerging world order, or a revised version of the New World Order that came into existence after the fall of the Berlin...
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”—Frederick Douglass A cigarette at a petrol pump can ignite...
Thousands of kilometers away, a catastrophic war erupts as Iran, the United States, and the entire Middle East collide in a devastating spiral of...
A column by Dr Hafiz A. Pasha, “Performance of the Provincial Economies” (Business Recorder, September 2, 2025), highlights a significant...
A column by Dr Hafiz A. Pasha, “Performance of the Provincial Economies” (Business Recorder, September 2, 2025), highlights a significant...
Allama Iqbal described the Muslim-majority provinces as a potential bulwark of India and of the British Empire against the hungry generations of the...
According to Reuters news agency, there has been some speculation about a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader...
The farmer has finally been given a number. He still needs to know whether anyone will pay it. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s announcement on 23...
Today’s world is grappling with complex issues such as wars, economic inequality, imperialist and geopolitical rivalries, and artificial...
A particular kind of diplomatic gathering reveals more about the state of the world than a dozen grand declarations. It is the meeting that would have...
The formation of the Makkah Defence Alliance between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye in August 2026 marked an important development in the security...
Two recent reports drew my attention to a glaring institutional deficit: Pakistan lacks a consolidated, reliable and publicly accessible database...
From October 5 to October 11, 2026, I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit Iceland at the invitation of the University of Iceland and the Arctic...
The outcome of the Iran war will decide the future of Regional and global actors, as the war has expanded far beyond its region. The war that...
Pakistan’s economic crisis has renewed demands for national development, industrialization, and economic sovereignty, offered as solutions to...
Pakistan’s energy debate too often begins with a utility’s balance sheet and ends with somebody else’s bill. Millions of consumers barely enter...
October 27 marks 79 years since Indian troops landed in Srinagar, beginning a military presence that has denied generations of Kashmiris their right...
This is the dead land, where bureaucrats and decision-makers want no more than one page, which has already collapsed, as Interior Minister Naqvi...
Pakistan cannot broaden its tax base by repeatedly squeezing people already visible to the State. Artificial intelligence offers a different route:...
The situation in the Middle East has been entangled since the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War. The dominant powers...
The attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on Wednesday night, which killed one person and injured eight, has exposed a troubling...
Karachi is facing a host of climate related problems such as extreme heat, deadly heatwaves, urban flooding, heavy rainfall, water scarcity, coastal...
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary”—James Madison, Federalist No 51 A wealthy country can absorb a modest financial loss...
Voila! We finally have the text of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA). And no, it hasn’t been put out by the Government of Pakistan. Here,...
For Pakistan, this is not an academic dispute. Political leaders and planners repeatedly make choices about taxation, subsidies, privatisation, trade,...
On 22 October 2026, Lahore stood among the three most polluted major cities in the world on IQAir's live ranking, with an air quality index of...
Debates surrounding the 28th Constitutional Amendment have raised several fundamental questions on Pakistan’s political and constitutional horizon....
Pakistan has a long and often turbulent history of federal intervention in the provinces, with the centre repeatedly resorting to governor’s rule...
On 19 October, the Establishment Division issued a notification extending Awais Manzur Sumra’s additional charge as Secretary of Water Resources for...
We are two Pakistanis who served in Afghanistan, and we write as peace advocates. We want a prosperous, stable Afghanistan at the heart of Asia, a...
Pakistan is adding five to six million people annually. The 2023 Census recorded 241.5 million people, an increase of 33.8 million in six years. The...
Pakistan’s only eastern neighbor is India whereas; its western neighbors are Afghanistan and Iran. All the eastern and western borders of Pakistan...
Islamabad’s administrators appear to have discovered a remarkable formula for urban improvement: remove the tables where people gather, uproot the...
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