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Pakistan's water debate has become increasingly focused on India. The reasons are understandable. Indian leaders have openly questioned the...
There is a particular cruelty in being destroyed slowly by people carrying briefcases. Pakistan was not broken by earthquakes or invasion. It was...
Only “agricultural income” as defined in the Constitution falls within the legislative competence of the provinces, while all other activities of...
On June 4, one day before the federal budget was originally scheduled to be presented to parliament, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a review...
For decades, Pakistanis have helped build the Gulf — not in the abstract, but literally. They poured the concrete, drove the trucks, staffed the...
Every section of Pakistan's water crisis has a known technical solution. Every one of those solutions has been blocked not by engineering failure...
The high-stakes military raid in Lakki Marwat on 28 May 2026 shattered the fragile illusion of security in Pakistan’s borderlands. Acting on...
The European Union has finally awakened to the scale of its dependence on China. As concerns over industrial competitiveness intensify, Brussels is...
On 7th June, Gilgit Baltistan will go to the polls. This will be the fourth election since GB got a limited self-governing status under a framework...
Almost all the country's re-gasified liquefied natural gas travels through the Strait of Hormuz, sourced under long-term Take-or-Pay contracts...
As Pakistan enters another budget season, the national debate once again revolves around taxation, IMF conditionalities, fiscal deficits, debt...
The intersection of military strategy and ecological manipulation represents one of the most insidious frontiers of modern conflict. While the horrors...
The latest visit of Chinese Special Representative Yue Xiaoyong to Islamabad and Kabul has once again highlighted the central challenge confronting...
What began as a throwaway political joke mocking India’s political culture has morphed into one of the country’s most viral online movements. The...
Every Pakistani farmer lives with uncertainty about the fate of their crops, the burden of fertiliser bills paid on credit, and sometimes praying for...
What began as a throwaway political joke mocking India’s political culture has morphed into one of the country’s most viral online movements. The...
Historiography has come of age in Pakistan. I find the writings of Ilyas Chattha, Ali Qasmi’s Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National...
Pakistan’s recent diplomatic and strategic successes have provided it with a rare opportunity to reshape not only its international image but also...
Every budget season in Pakistan follows the same ritual. The finance minister rises, announces measures to “broaden the tax base”, introduces a...
Every year on 31 May, the world observes World No Tobacco Day to highlight the devastating consequences of tobacco use and to strengthen global...
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated military strikes against Iran, initiating one of the most consequential armed...
Climate change has emerged as one of the defining crises of the contemporary world. It is no longer limited to scientists and policymakers; it is now...
Pakistan is in the headlines for all the right reasons in the international arena, and that is refreshing for the generation that came of age in the...
The changing geopolitical realities of the world today may be creating conditions for the emergence of a new regional platform focused simultaneously...
I have written about the Chenab's pulses, the sharp surges and sudden troughs that turn a Himalayan river into a regulated instrument. Those...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has concluded a critical visit to China at a time of exceptional regional uncertainty. The visit coincided with the 75th...
Pakistan’s soldiers face a threat that is routinely ignored, i.e., vector-borne diseases. Malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, and Crimean-Congo...
Let me offer a rule that peacemakers have long understood. “Peace through strength” is an oxymoron. Soft power directed towards maintaining and...
Pakistan's robotics debate is still too often framed as a choice between fascination and fear. On one side are videos of humanoids, quadrupeds...
Pakistan’s recent stabilisation has bought time. Reserves have improved. Remittance flows remain resilient. But stabilisation without transformation...
Youm-e-Takbeer is commemorated each year on May 28, marking Pakistan’s response to India’s nuclear weapon tests in both 1974 and 1998. It was...
President Donald Trump’s renewed call for countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Qatar to join the Abraham Accords has once again sparked...
The USA and Chinese relationships are a classic illustration of the metaphor, “Bad marriage”. Analysts, commentators and historians have used this...
On May 20, 2026, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague upheld its earlier ruling affirming the continued validity of the Indus Waters...
Saudi Arabia is a critical but cautious actor in the ongoing Israel–U.S. war against Iran. While not the primary mediator, its role as a regional...
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired”, Eisenhower in his famous Iron Cross speech warned, “is a theft from those...
In April 2026, Gwadar Port handled around 11,000 shipping containers, more than it handled in all of 2025. Officials in Islamabad are calling this...
A few days ago, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) conducted a raid at a call centre in Karachi that sections of the media quickly...
The farmer does not leave wheat out of sentiment. He leaves when the arithmetic forces him to. In Okara, in Sahiwal, and in parts of Bahawalpur and...
Following the first round of direct U.S.-Iran talks held in Islamabad in April this year, the standoff between Tehran and Washington continues....
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.” — William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure There are moments in the constitutional life of...
For the first time since the Iran–US/Israel war began, both Washington and Tehran are officially signalling movement towards a memorandum of...
Pakistan treats wheat procurement as a provincial matter. The market does not. A procurement failure in Punjab travels. It moves through flour prices...
For much of the last two decades, Pakistan’s political leadership, economic managers, and international financial institutions promoted a reassuring...
Nehru was over-conscious of the strategic situation of the Subcontinent lying at the mouth of vital regions of South-East Asia, Central Asia, the...
The high seas of the Mediterranean have once again become a theatre of unpunished brutality, exposing a profound moral rot at the heart of modern...
We are now in the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, the sacred month of Hajj during which Muslims are prohibited from engaging in warfare. This...
In the chaotic early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when laboratories across the world were racing to develop vaccines and antiviral drugs, India...
In Sahiwal, Punjab, one morning, a woman stood on the outskirts of her field, her finger pointing to the grey horizon. She didn't make a gesture...
Every policy distributes risk. Punjab's wheat transition was presented as a technical reform: reduce fiscal exposure, expand private...
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