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Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

The Friday Times

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Universities at the brink

The recent wave of academic disruption across Karachi's public universities has exposed a deep structural crisis in Pakistan's higher...

14.06.2026 50

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Beyond military calculations

The conflict between Iran and US-Israel is increasingly producing consequences that go far beyond military calculations. While governments debate...

13.03.2026 70

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Muhajir identity: the making and unmaking

The identity known today as Muhajir did not emerge from culture or language. It was born from displacement. The partition uprooted millions, forcing...

28.02.2026 20

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Muhajir politics

The politics of the MQM-P has once again entered a decisive phase. What began in the 1980s as an organised assertion of urban Muhajir identity...

20.02.2026 30

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Pakistan's PIA dilemma

The privatisation of PIA illustrates a fundamental dynamic in which public resources are transferred to private ownership under the guise of reform...

07.01.2026 50

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Pakistan's elite capture

The latest IMF's 2025 Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA) report offers a detailed examination of how institutional fragmentation,...

28.11.2025 70

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Was Pakistan necessary?

Was Pakistan necessary? The question, as always, arises as we are close to celebrating the 78th anniversary of "independent" Pakistan. The creation of...

14.08.2025 100

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Bhutto's paradoxes

As another July 5th recedes into Pakistan's collective memory, it remains a symbolic rupture: the night when the populist experiment of Zulfikar Ali...

25.07.2025 30

The Express Tribune

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi

Why Balkanisation Is Not The Answer For Pakistan

08.07.2025 50

The Friday Times

Muhammad Raiyd Qazi