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If a country is domestically stable, with economic vibrancy, good governance, and the rule of law, then it makes sense for it to engage in mediation...
We write as concerned citizens on a matter that deserves the Prime Minister's direct, personal attention: the slow collapse of the watershed that...
On June 24, personnel of the Bomb Disposal Unit and police in Upper South Waziristan successfully defused an improvised explosive device in the...
The Pakistan Economic Survey 2025–26 opens its chapter on education with an encouraging portrayal of the country's educational progress,...
June 26 marks the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),...
In the brittle, anxious summer of 2026, the world watches as the Middle East teeters on a precipice. The recent conflict between the United States and...
Wars may end with a ceasefire, but strategic contests rarely do. They simply move from the battlefield to diplomacy, political influence, and the...
The debate over the future of US–India relations carries a lesson that reaches well beyond Washington and New Delhi. If the strategic assumptions...
In April, Pakistan signed its first-ever bilateral carbon market agreement with Norway under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, a deal described as a...
The combined provincial budgets presented in June amount to nearly Rs. 12.7 trillion for the fiscal year 2026–27. Excluding personnel salaries,...
The Muslim world possesses nearly every ingredient associated with national strength. It commands vast energy resources, occupies some of the...
Societies rarely decline dramatically. More often, decline arrives quietly—through small compromises, tolerated wrongs, and the gradual erosion of...
Pakistan’s reported role in facilitating renewed communication between Washington and Tehran has done what such moments always do in Islamabad: it...
History rarely announces the arrival of a new diplomatic actor with fanfare. More often, states rise in influence gradually through a succession of...
President Masoud Pezeshkian's visit to Pakistan was remarkable not only for the warmth of the welcome he received but also for what it revealed...
Following the question posed in the title of this piece, the next one is: how ready is Pakistan to align with the new realities that have emerged in...
The characterisation of Afghanistan as the graveyard of empires has long depicted it as an exceptional site where major powers repeatedly fail. While...
For decades, the national debate on water has kept circling the same set of concerns: how much is coming in, when floods will arrive, how many dams...
In 1960, when Eugene Black and the World Bank brokered the Indus Waters Treaty, they did not simply settle a dispute between two new states. They...
Every government likes to build. A new building earns a ribbon-cutting ceremony. A new bridge becomes a headline. A new hospital is hailed as a symbol...
The first session of high-level talks under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), concluded in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, represents a...
The recent Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) policy document (2026) clearly indicates that India has been deploying 12 nuclear...
The first child of Z. A. Bhutto and Begum Nusrat was born on this day, 21st June 1952, with rosy cheeks. He was named Benazir – a Persian and Urdu...
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is once again being reinvented! The proposed transformation plan envisages a three-wing structure separating audit,...
Four months have already passed since the establishment of the Constitutional Courts and no major controversy is in sight besides its own birth by the...
The US-Iran conflict is another reminder of Pakistan's vulnerability to global black swan events and its continued reliance on imported fuels....
Pakistan finds itself trapped in a gruelling security dilemma along its western frontier. Recent “precise and calibrated” strikes carried out by...
The signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran marks a watershed moment in...
The Islamabad lower courts were relatively quiet on 24th January 2026, as the local bar had announced a strike because two of its lawyers had been...
The present debate on the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award is overwhelmingly skewed against the provinces and thereby presents a myopic...
“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” — Albert Camus Nine-year-old Hania Ahmed should still be alive. Instead, her life...
It took Pakistani mediators months of relentless negotiations, travelling, passing messages, and even enduring blowback from the UAE—one of its...
As diplomats prepare for the formal signing of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, an increasingly familiar debate has emerged over who deserves...
Two parcels of state land sit on the same colonial avenue, and the government treats them as opposites. The Lahore Gymkhana holds about 112 acres for...
Nearly 60 per cent of net federal revenue goes to interest payments. Subsidies and tax exemptions (Rs 2.53 trillion) for influential groups exceed...
The decision by the United States Department of Defense to restore the name of its Indo-Pacific Command to its original designation, the Pacific...
The notion that India might attack Pakistan in 2028 is primarily rooted in the growing economic and political challenges confronting Narendra Modi. I...
In 2007, under the most powerful hybrid regime, the hard drives from thirteen specific computers at the headquarters of what was then called the...
Pakistan's education debate has long remained confined to a narrow framework of literacy rates, enrolment figures and infrastructure deficits....
Amid continued sit-ins, shuttered markets, communication disruptions, and clashes that have reportedly claimed at least twenty lives, the crisis...
Agriculture remains one of Pakistan's most important economic sectors. It contributes approximately 24 per cent to national GDP, employs nearly...
The dust has settled on the latest federal budget, and as expected, the reactions are as polarised as the economic strata of the country. On...
Few economic debates in Pakistan generate as much passion, confusion and political symbolism as Islamic banking. More than four decades after the...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s announcement that the United States and Iran have reached a peace agreement marks what could become one of the most...
I have spent the better part of twenty years doing something that should, in any functioning state, be entirely unremarkable. I have been asking for...
"I know that government cannot make men happy or bring them spiritual fulfilment. But it can attempt to remedy the public failures which are the...
Pakistan’s latest budget offers some targeted relief. Still, it essentially amounts to incremental tweaks rather than a bold strategy to reverse...
The recent killing of a woman in Karachi, allegedly following a dispute over marital intimacy, has shocked the nation. While the incident demands...
Pakistan’s water emergency has grown from a muted environmental fear into a national emergency. Once blessed with rich rivers and aquifers, the...
The announcement of the CSS Examination 2025 results has once again drawn public attention to Pakistan's civil service. Out of 12,792 candidates...
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