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“An ideal tax system should consist of the lowest possible tax rate on the broadest possible tax base”— Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) in Muqaddimah...
Friday’s separate telephone conversations between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Foreign...
Justice in Pakistan has increasingly begun not with a witness statement but with screenshots. A WhatsApp conversation or a viral video clip can now...
On 3rd April 2026, the European Union’s legal framework permitting the detection of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) expired. This expiry is a...
The U.S.-Israel war against Iran has created a defining paradox for the global financial system. While the conflict has accelerated long-term...
The Strait of Hormuz is a 167 km long and 33–39 km wide (at its narrowest point) international waterway, connecting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of...
For years, Pakistan has been sold a comforting lie: build more gigawatts, sign more power purchase deals, throw money at new plants, and the lights...
After 47 years of Cold War and armed conflict, the direct meeting between the delegations of the United States and Iran held in Islamabad the other...
In the noisy echo chambers of modern geopolitics—where hashtags masquerade as analysis and half-formed opinions travel faster than facts—it has...
Pakistan has experienced a perennial trade deficit since its inception, with rare exceptions in 1951 and 1972. While the trade balance has remained...
The Strait of Hormuz was meant to be Iran’s leverage. It has instead begun to work against Iran. What started as a pressure tactic to raise the...
Prime Minister Modi’s statement that “blood and water cannot flow together” after holding the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance was more than...
Pakistan has passed through acute fiscal crises roughly once a decade since 1971. Each time, the commentary produces the same prediction. This one...
Let me begin with a salute. Not mine—Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s. Standing beside Donald Trump in Sharm el-Sheikh last October, at the Gaza...
India's diplomatic discomfort has become increasingly visible as Pakistan takes centre stage in mediating between the United States and Iran,...
Mohammed Amin was eight years old when he came home from a routine hospital visit with a fever. Days later, he tested positive for HIV. His sister...
Pakistan appears, at present, unusually consequential in global diplomacy. While Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir continues his engagement in...
About 60% of Pakistan’s population falls in the “transitory poor” category; this fraction of the population is more vulnerable to abrupt price...
Parts I and II of this analysis examined what Pakistan's official education data reveal about access, gender gaps, and the structural failures of...
The international system is not a legal order. It never was. Beneath the language of charters, conventions, and treaties lies an anarchical reality...
The fragile U.S.–Iran negotiations, following the Islamabad-brokered ceasefire and now unfolding across multiple regional capitals, have highlighted...
Pakistan today stands at a familiar yet crucial crossroads—caught between the promise of democratic continuity and the pull of decisive, centralised...
It is widely said that arbitration is one of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) modes adopted between parties to resolve disputes, as it is...
Every few years, Pakistan is surprised by a crisis it has already met before. This week, the alarm is coming again from Punjab, where a BBC...
In a recent post on X, Atif Mian argued that Pakistan could, by following China’s path and rapidly shifting to electric motorbikes and rickshaws,...
Congratulations, Pakistan has done what no one could do in the last 50 years. Now Pakistan has emerged as a regional power and a leader of global...
In Part I, national averages were shown to conceal provincial disparities and an invisible population of girls counted in schooling statistics but not...
In the Foreign Service of Pakistan, two stations – Sudan and North Korea – are known as very hard places, not because of any security problem but...
The gravest error in the FCC’s order lies in its implicit acceptance that the term ‘income’, as envisaged under the Constitution of the Islamic...
As the saying goes, “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.” Yet even as the final differences in the Iran deal continue to be worked out...
Pakistan’s electricity crisis is widely misdiagnosed as a problem of insufficient generation capacity. In reality, it is a structural failure of...
The talks in Islamabad ended without a deal, but the temptation to read that as either failure or breakthrough misses what actually happened. If...
The Punjab Assembly committee’s approval of the Child Marriage Restraint Bill, 2026, constitutes a pivotal and long-overdue intervention to confront...
.When Pakistan signed onto SEATO and later CENTO, it made a decision that its architects presented as strategic alignment but that functioned, in...
The “Atoms for Peace” policy, introduced by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s, constituted a seminal initiative that fundamentally reoriented...
At a time when global politics feels increasingly polarised and conflict-ridden, Pakistan’s willingness to host peace talks between the United...
In 1956, a narrow waterway humbled a fading empire. Egypt’s nationalisation of the Suez Canal triggered a military response from Britain, France,...
In the aftermath of a fragile yet consequential ceasefire—one in which Islamabad is believed to have played a discreet but meaningful role—a...
War is hell. Only the dead have seen the end of it. This war in the Middle East has killed thousands, including senior political and military leaders...
The recently held talks between the high-powered U.S. and Iranian delegations in Islamabad reflected that the two sides lacked flexibility and...
Three parties are losing this war—Israel, America, and Iran—but none will admit defeat. Israel is battered by an ongoing conflict. America faces...
The collapse of the Islamabad talks was structured well before JD Vance landed, well before the Iranian delegation cleared customs. What we witnessed...
The fact that no agreement emerged after just one day of direct talks between Iran and the United States—their first high-level face-to-face...
The politics of subordination is about dominating others by whatever means. Speaking at Davos 2026, Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, admitted...
24th September, 2016. Speaking in Kerala, as reported by Dawn newspaper, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared, “We will isolate you. I will work...
Pakistan’s diplomatic achievement to mediate for a two-week ceasefire between the US & Iran is one of the most significant developments since...
Pakistan has pulled off a spectacular diplomatic feat by saving the world from a catastrophic escalation potentially spiralling into a Third World...
On the first night of the war, February 28, missiles streaked across the sky above Palm Jumeirah, intercepted in bursts of light as residents in beach...
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” — Sun Tzu The metamorphosis is striking. For decades, Pakistan’s name has been associated...
In the course of the next several decades, a functioning structure of global cooperation, based on geopolitical realities, could thus emerge and...
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