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The courtroom was already full before the judge took the bench. An elderly farmer sat quietly with a faded cloth bag containing documents from a land...
It was 5th June, 1967. Isreal launched a surprise preemptive air strike on Egyptian airfields. In the ensuing six days war, the Arab world suffered a...
Pakistan’s foreign direct investment debate has largely focused on one question: how can the government attract more foreign investors? Investment...
When Pakistan came into being, its eastern wing contained the majority of its population. In the 1951 census, East Pakistan had about 42 million...
On August 7, in Mecca, the handshake of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mohammed bin Salman, and Shehbaz Sharif, was much more than the signing of a document....
The contemporary militant matrix in Pakistan has reached a dangerous inflection point. What was once a collection of localized, ethnically driven, or...
“Small nations have always struggled against more powerful ones for their freedom. The whole history of humankind is a struggle of the oppressed...
Pakistan’s perennial debate over new provinces has resurfaced with familiar urgency. It is often framed as a corrective—an administrative fix to...
Pakistan celebrates its 79th Independence Day in circumstances few could have anticipated only a few years ago. A country widely associated with...
An advertisement for the recruitment of soldiers in Pak Army appeared in the Daily Jang on July 5, 2026 restricting the eligibility to only male...
Pakistan’s water debate has resurfaced with Tarbela Dam reaching its maximum storage level of 1,550 feet. On the surface, this looks like a success...
America has always seemed to be more than a country or a nation. Peopled primarily by white migrants from Europe, it has also been an idea, i.e. that...
It is being argued that Pakistan has broken out of its South Asian “geographical prison” and positioned itself at the heart of the Middle East....
First we had the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA) between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Much fanfare followed it. Thinner than a reed, it...
It is being argued that Pakistan has broken out of its South Asian “geographical prison” and positioned itself at the heart of the Middle East....
The debate over new provinces has resurfaced amid a deepening crisis of credibility in Pakistan’s political system—and it is not unfolding in a...
Imagine standing at 6,600 meters on the lethal slopes of Broad Peak where a single second can rewrite mountaineering history forever. On July 30,...
The phrase “system collapse and reset” has gained currency in Pakistan’s public discourse recently. It is a superficial diagnosis of a much...
Pakistan’s history has been marred by a seemingly endless game of musical chairs between civilian, military and hybrid regimes. All different...
One of the most significant changes in the administration of justice post covid in Canada and particularly in Ontario has been the efficient use of...
In the early hours of 10 August, after days of rapid filling, Tarbela touched its maximum conservation level of 5.58 million acre-feet. Mangla, on the...
The defense understanding among Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye represents far more than the formalization of already close relations among three...
As the global order transitions toward multipolarity and emerging economies increasingly seek alternatives to Western-led institutions, BRICS has...
Pakistan is preparing to privatize some of its electricity distribution companies at precisely the moment when the electricity business itself is...
On 30th July, the Interior Minister delivered a very important speech at Pakistan’s first economic summit at the Jinnah Convention Centre in...
Pakistan does not need a hard state. It needs a development state. Egypt is a hard state; Vietnam is a development state. Anyone serious about...
Children who come into conflict with the law are often regarded as criminals for the rest of their lives. While the circumstances behind their...
There is an old saying: when a jeweller begins to wield a blacksmith’s hammer, one must ask whether he is truly a jeweller or whether he intends to...
Pakistan’s economic journalism had a better week than usual, with stories on exports, food insecurity, energy pricing, Islamic finance, agricultural...
The Saudi Arabia-Türkiye-Pakistan defence pact is a watershed in regional security because it brings together three major Muslim states with...
Pakistan’s greatest sporting tragedy is not the absence of talent. It is the habit of forcing talent to survive without a system, then calling...
The signing of a trilateral Joint Security and Defence Pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye at the Makkah Summit marks one of the most...
For a long time, Pakistan’s education debate has been dominated by numbers: how many children are in school, how many remain outside it, how many...
There were hasty celebrations over the Islamabad MoU signed on 17 June 2026. It indeed put Islamabad in a prominent spot on the stage of world...
A taxpayer who misses a statutory deadline may lose the right of appeal, face recovery proceedings, pay default surcharge and suffer penalties. What...
Pakistan is a unique country in the sense that following the abrogation of one unit in 1970, it has four provinces. The fifth province called as East...
Since the very beginning of Pakistan’s journey as an independent nation, a persistent stream of pessimism has accompanied its development. This...
Chaghi, an area that lies under the scorching sun with almost non-existent vegetation, caught investors' attention when it revealed its untapped...
There is a question that has stayed with me throughout my years of working closely with development, agriculture, climate resilience, and public...
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts...
Every decade, Pakistan rediscovers the governance debate. The actors change, the slogans evolve and the proposed solutions differ, but the underlying...
The seventh anniversary of India's abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A passed this week with remarkably little attention in Pakistan's...
About 16 years ago, writing in another newspaper, I proposed the idea of 20 geographic provinces for Pakistan. I have since reconsidered my position...
The debate over the creation of new provinces in Pakistan is not a new phenomenon. However, in recent years, this issue has acquired extraordinary...
Pakistan’s National Artificial Intelligence Policy promises scale: one million trained professionals, thousands of trainers and scholarships, new...
The establishment wants to redraw the map. Pakistan's crisis was never about the map. Mohsin Naqvi has given an old idea a new sales pitch....
One of the most important messages in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment on Pakistan has...
In the last two weeks, I published three pieces in the Friday Times, in which I proposed a “controlled, negotiated” economic default. It was not a...
On 30 July 2026, Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal announced that the National Flood Protection Plan would be placed before the Council of...
Pakistan is currently embroiled in intense debate over remarks made by Federal Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi, who advocated for creating new...
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