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ACROSS Pakistan — from the floodplains of Punjab to the heat-stricken cities of Sindh — the climate crisis is...
Emergencies in Pakistan are becoming more frequent and raising uncertainties for everyone.
The CPI and CPI-M are threatening their very own political creed.
THE October 2023 judgement had been widely hailed as ‘historic’. The one issued by five judges this Tuesday will...
Jingoism is evident in both countries, but elements in India’s media, cultural and political sphere have been egging on their country in...
Over the past two decades, we have seen growing stagnation in social development.
Iqbal proposes symbiosis of ‘aql’ and ‘ishq’.
IT is a time of great peril in the subcontinent. India’s provocative attack targeting several locations in Azad Kashmir and Punjab early on...
INDIA and Pakistan are being driven, inexorably, towards a confrontation that neither side wants but neither side can avert. The drivers of...
INDIA’S unilateral decision to place the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance threatens Pakistan’s water security after six decades of cooperative...
PLANES and bombs are not the end of it. New Delhi is also up to mischief on another front. This weekend, without prior intimation, which officials...
KARACHI is a strange city — divided by public-private partnerships and developed in isolation. Its caretakers no longer incorporate context,...
INDIA’S true enemy is not Pakistan: it is hubris, the arrogance of a born-again bully. India emerged as a unified nation-state in 1947, the...
Following India’s May7 ‘OperationSindoor,’ the two arch rival South Asian neighbours find themselves precariously balanced on a razor’s edge — one...
ISRAEL’S rogue behaviour — attacking the Arab population in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as its neighbours and other states —...
THE World Bank’s red alert — that global waste may rise by 73pc by 2050 — spells trouble for countries like Pakistan. Low-income countries bear the...
MEDIA jingoism is not new. But the spectacle of news and talk show anchors frothing at the mouth as they call for a war against Pakistan, following...
SINDH recently experienced upheaval in the form of weeks-long agitation and dharnas against the proposal to construct new canals on the already...
THE market did not anticipate it. And only a handful of analysts thought the State Bank would slash borrowing costs — that too by 50bps at the...
EIGHTY years after Germany’s Third Reich formally accepted defeat, the enduring reluctance on all sides to draw lessons from the causes and...
THE National Commission on the Rights of the Child recently published its first-ever report of data, challenges and recommendations on the State of...
CITIZENS of India are welcome to join the VPN club. With New Delhi left looking rather sheepish after jumping the gun and blaming Pakistan squarely...
THE amendments to the tax laws giving vast coercive powers to the FBR, and allowing it to circumvent existing laws and court judgements for...
AT a time when hardliners in India are beating the drums of war, internal unity is essential to face the challenges confronting Pakistan. In this...
A WEEK later, the uncertainty continues, even as there are observations galore that temperatures have come down a bit. There have been calls and...
PAKISTAN’S tax collection system needs a complete overhaul. The system squeezes individuals and segments that are already paying their taxes, and...
THE din on Indian TV channels toggles between spewing hate and conjuring an enemy that can be cut into four. It’s what religion and nationalism on...
FOR decades, Pakistan’s power sector has operated as a rigid, state-run monopoly — like a railway network where the state owns the trains and...
PAKISTANI politicians love to punch above their weight. With the return of the PML-N to power, it was but natural to expect the comeback of large...
A JOB interview is among the more significant moments in one’s life, particularly for the family breadwinner. But the massive scale of aspirants for...
IT need not have come to this. A week ago, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi had to issue a formal guarantee to foreign investors that their...
WHEN I started writing my book, The Shady Economics of International Aid, in 2023, I never anticipated that some of the issues I explored would...
PAKISTAN is unkind to its children. The NCRC’s State of Children in Pakistan Report 2024 scans the grim circumstances our young are forced to...
INDIAN social media — or at least the parts of it that are most visible in the current crisis — is a curious mixture of hate and threats of sexual...
THE latest crisis in India-Pakistan relations is the fifth in the past 25 years. Each crisis has been more complex and involved dangerous...