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A particular kind of diplomatic gathering reveals more about the state of the world than a dozen grand declarations. It is the meeting that would have...
The formation of the Makkah Defence Alliance between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye in August 2026 marked an important development in the security...
Two recent reports drew my attention to a glaring institutional deficit: Pakistan lacks a consolidated, reliable and publicly accessible database...
From October 5 to October 11, 2026, I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit Iceland at the invitation of the University of Iceland and the Arctic...
The outcome of the Iran war will decide the future of Regional and global actors, as the war has expanded far beyond its region. The war that...
Pakistan’s economic crisis has renewed demands for national development, industrialization, and economic sovereignty, offered as solutions to...
Pakistan’s energy debate too often begins with a utility’s balance sheet and ends with somebody else’s bill. Millions of consumers barely enter...
October 27 marks 79 years since Indian troops landed in Srinagar, beginning a military presence that has denied generations of Kashmiris their right...
This is the dead land, where bureaucrats and decision-makers want no more than one page, which has already collapsed, as Interior Minister Naqvi...
Pakistan cannot broaden its tax base by repeatedly squeezing people already visible to the State. Artificial intelligence offers a different route:...
The situation in the Middle East has been entangled since the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War. The dominant powers...
The attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on Wednesday night, which killed one person and injured eight, has exposed a troubling...
Karachi is facing a host of climate related problems such as extreme heat, deadly heatwaves, urban flooding, heavy rainfall, water scarcity, coastal...
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary”—James Madison, Federalist No 51 A wealthy country can absorb a modest financial loss...
Voila! We finally have the text of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA). And no, it hasn’t been put out by the Government of Pakistan. Here,...
For Pakistan, this is not an academic dispute. Political leaders and planners repeatedly make choices about taxation, subsidies, privatisation, trade,...
On 22 October 2026, Lahore stood among the three most polluted major cities in the world on IQAir's live ranking, with an air quality index of...
Debates surrounding the 28th Constitutional Amendment have raised several fundamental questions on Pakistan’s political and constitutional horizon....
Pakistan has a long and often turbulent history of federal intervention in the provinces, with the centre repeatedly resorting to governor’s rule...
On 19 October, the Establishment Division issued a notification extending Awais Manzur Sumra’s additional charge as Secretary of Water Resources for...
We are two Pakistanis who served in Afghanistan, and we write as peace advocates. We want a prosperous, stable Afghanistan at the heart of Asia, a...
Pakistan is adding five to six million people annually. The 2023 Census recorded 241.5 million people, an increase of 33.8 million in six years. The...
Pakistan’s only eastern neighbor is India whereas; its western neighbors are Afghanistan and Iran. All the eastern and western borders of Pakistan...
Islamabad’s administrators appear to have discovered a remarkable formula for urban improvement: remove the tables where people gather, uproot the...
For thousands of years, the Indus decided when the fields of Sindh would receive water. On 13 January 1932, men gathered at Sukkur to announce that...
Pakistan’s infrastructure debate begins with the wrong question. Roads, power systems and water networks may generate social benefits, but most earn...
Pakistan’s Constitution tells two different stories about devolution. The first concerns the relationship between the Federation and the Provinces....
For years, the private sector in Punjab has carried a cost that never appears in any official ledger. It is the cost of not knowing how an inspector...
This week Pakistan's interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, said that an unnamed party chief was furious at being denied a role in Khyber...
Pakistan can register a company online and still make running it an obstacle course. After incorporation come tax portals, provincial levies,...
Pakistan’s selection to chair the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in 2027, for the first time...
The United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, ending two decades of occupation. But the weapons they supplied to Afghanistan are still...
An empire does not become harmless when its authority weakens. It may become more coercive, while those resisting it may reproduce the same appetite...
Here in the US, summer is giving way to autumn and the trees are turning colour. A growing nip in the morning air, while often a rain-soaked evening...
Pakistan is once again debating the creation of new provinces or smaller administrative units. The discussion gained momentum in mid-2026 when...
The grain is counted when it leaves the field. Hunger is counted when it reaches the child. Between those two measurements lies much of Pakistan’s...
Pakistan’s decision to impose an emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is not simply an administrative response to terrorism. It is...
On the balance of probability, the next round of war looks inevitable. To see why, let us first consider the two possibilities: that the US–Israel...
There is something almost surreal about the politics of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). While the province struggles with militancy, insecurity, economic...
The Federal Committee on Agriculture met in Islamabad this month and confirmed what the fields had already announced. Cotton production in 2026-27 is...
Pakistan’s decision to impose an emergency and Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is not simply an administrative response to terrorism. It is...
The federal government’s invocation of Articles 232 and 234 of the Constitution to impose Governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), alongside a...
Washington delivered two verdicts on Pakistan this week. On October 8 the IMF announced a staff-level agreement worth about $1.21 billion. A day...
When Shehbaz Sharif and Asim Munir offered to mediate peace in the Middle East, I prayed for their success, though I was no fan of either man or of...
On October 11, the Aiwan-e-Sadr announced that President Asif Ali Zardari had signed the Prime Minister’s advice. According to reports, this advice...
The hybrid government has finally decided to kick the chessboard and start playing solitaire. Nothing new or surprising. The cast of characters keeps...
Although mafias had their origins in Italy, the mindset shaping mafias permeated in different parts of the world. According to Collins dictionary,...
We gained Pakistan in August 1947; we have since been owning a country; we have a sense of belonging to this land, and to a nation of 240 million...
Pakistan's political opposition has something that movements elsewhere would envy: a leader with a substantial popular following, a governing...
On October 8, 2026, the United States did more than suspend eight technology firms from its Permanent Labor Certification program. It publicly...
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