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Umair Javed

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Bureaucratic control

Bureaucratic control

A plethora of legislation is tightening or extending executive control over a range of social and governance aspects

06.07.2026 150

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Future of Pakistani football

Domestically, football has the potential of being a truly national sport in the country.

22.06.2026 50

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Respite needed

All one can fear is a familiar accounting exercise that aims to extract a few more rupees from a narrow, weary economic base.

08.06.2026 50

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5,000 years of Pakistan?

Any serious and sustained interrogation of the Pakistani state’s cultural politics would inevitably bring the tension between projected identity and...

25.05.2026 80

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Returns on multipolarity

In the current moment, emerging multipolarity is actually strengthening the status quo in both politics and economics.

11.05.2026 100

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Geography or ethnicity

If ethnic identities were perennial status groups, such assimilation would be considerably harder.

02.03.2026 150

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Land of the unclear

The government’s fixation on net-metering is a red herring.

16.02.2026 150

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Conflicts of the future

Curious about what the adoption of AI will herald, many students are concerned with their own personal futures.

02.02.2026 100

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Shortcuts to growth

There is no straightforward path to growth that doesn’t see us back to square one in a year or so.

19.01.2026 80

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A lost decade

Inflation may have subsided since 2024 but dynamism in the economy is still missing.

05.01.2026 100

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Recovering history

Ilyas Chattha’s new book shows how formal ideals of citizenship run afoul of political exigencies and nationalist ideologies

22.12.2025 150

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Reviving Basant

A public festival such as Basant remains an important corrective, even if it only lasts a weekend.

08.12.2025 80

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Going back in time

The current configuration of governance is not too dissimilar to what the British envisioned in the early 20th century.

24.11.2025 100

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Preserving the past

There has been a mild rethink of the us­­ual religion-inflected, homogenising idea of what this country really is and what constitutes its past.

10.11.2025 80

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A false binary

The debate on what to do with the TLP and TTP is currently caught in a bizarre binary.

27.10.2025 100

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A faltering trajectory

Food insecurity remains rampant, with up to 30pc of households reporting an inability to afford three meals a day.

13.10.2025 100

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AI and human learning

Merely proclaiming that devoting more time to the process of learning because of its abstract benefits isn’t necessarily a

29.09.2025 200

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Regional political upheavals

To see conspiracy at play in every episode of mass political rebellion is poor analysis.

15.09.2025 150

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Mass ecocide

The key debate is on the extent of middle-class complicity in encouraging destructive patterns of real estate development

01.09.2025 150

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A higher ideal

SEVENTY-EIGHT years of statehood and the prospect of regional peace in the subcontinent remains as distant as ever. After a brief passage of...

18.08.2025 100

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Party politics and the NFC

The NFC award is not some great heist that the provinces performed on an unsuspecting centre.

04.08.2025 300

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Commodified nature

It is during the monsoon months that the existential impact of real estate fever becomes truly apparent.

21.07.2025 100

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Why and for whom?

Society shows no broad-based winners in the status quo. Instead, any winners here are selective.

05.07.2025 90

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Scant relief, mounting burdens

Salaried earners are treated as a captive source of additional revenue by the government.

16.06.2025 100

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Security and insecurity

The bonanza of security for some, opens up a world of insecurity for most others.

26.05.2025 100

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Online foot soldiers

Political legitimacy in India is generated not through tangible material gain but through right-wing communalism, nationalism,

12.05.2025 100

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Zakat as non-state social welfare

The profile most likely to receive zakat according to the conjoint experiment embedded in the survey was widowed women.

28.04.2025 100

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Trump’s tantrum

The simple fact is that the rhetoric of bringing back good jobs for American workers is eyewash.

14.04.2025 100

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