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President Asif Ali Zardari has apparently taken a tough stand on the division of Sindh as part of the establishment’s plan of carving out more...
Afghanistan is not cursed because copper lies beneath Logar, lapis beneath Badakhshan or iron beneath Bamiyan. It has been cursed by political choices...
Pakistan’s state-owned enterprise (SOE) problem is no longer a question of diagnosis. It is a question of economic cost. For years, governments have...
When former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon walked away from his job this month warning that "superhuman systems" could bring human...
For much of the past decade, competition among the world's major powers has been one of the central organizing principles of U.S. foreign policy....
“A bad system will beat a good person every time” W. Edwards Deming Pakistan has developed an unfortunate fascination with reform on paper. We...
Final part of a three-part series on redesigning Pakistan’s civil service. Redesigning Pakistan’s civil service around professional...
The Colorado River crisis carries a warning for Pakistan: allocating water is not the same as governing scarcity. The Colorado River is running short...
Fact 1: Pakistan continues to invest heavily in conventional and strategic defense (The 2026-27 defense allocation is Rs. 3 trillion, up by 17.65%)...
Pakistan was created with the promise of a society in which citizenship, rather than religion, would determine the rights and dignity of an...
Pakistan’s water future will be decided not only by how much flows down the Indus, but by what we pump, what we grow and how efficiently we use it....
The Company collector began in extraction. The Crown-era Indian Civil Service, however, became a trained field administration with a substantial...
Every few weeks, Pakistan's Minister for Planning, Ahsan Iqbal, and the Prime Minister step off a plane in Beijing and recite the same well-worn...
The latest US-Iran exchange and Benjamin Netanyahu's avowed shift from containment to persistent prevention make the 1996 strategy paper newly...
The tribal courts generally known as Jirga system are flourishing in Sindh and Balochistan where half lettered landlords, feudal chiefs, Sardars,...
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”—Martin Luther King Jr. A horrifying crime on Bournemouth seafront has once again raised...
Pakistan is preparing for more than $6 billion in investment to modernize five existing oil refineries. The opportunity is significant, but success...
Don’t listen to what Sahib says about equality. Watch what he does with power. Sahib has become very eloquent in the language of equality. He speaks...
This paper argues that the Deputy Commissioner is best understood not as a neutral administrator but as the institutional heir of a...
There is a particular confidence that comes from reading half a Wikipedia page. For a month, that confidence has driven Pakistan’s...
For centuries, the Arctic was treated as the geographical equivalent of a locked room: remote, inhospitable and largely inaccessible. Its frozen seas...
There is a particular kind of grief reserved for self-inflicted wounds, and Pakistan's power sector deserves that grief more than almost any...
The catastrophic flash flood that hit Nepal's Rasuwa district on 26 August is not merely a national tragedy. It is a warning to the whole of...
On 31 August 2026, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued a landmark Award on the status of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and an Order on...
I have often wondered how a language can be wonderfully expressive and yet strangely evasive. Urdu can give us a thousand ways to describe longing....
Open a global wildfire map today and the impression is deeply unsettling. Across continents separated by oceans, climates and political systems, red...
Pakistan’s latest decision to retire Rs1.2 trillion of domestic debt owed to the State Bank of Pakistan ahead of schedule deserves attention not...
On 31 August 2026, a five-member Court of Arbitration sitting at The Hague delivered a unanimous ruling in the long-running transboundary water...
There are two ways Pakistan's economic press keeps failing itself, and honestly they come from the same place. One is stenography just typing up...
While Pakistan has a legally valid right to defend Balochistan as its own territory, international law also has its limitations, and these limitations...
The government has denied that Diamer-Bhasha’s 4,500MW power component is being abandoned. But if the rumour proves true, the project’s economics...
Fourteen newborns died in a maternity ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) fire. Like every disaster before it, we will mourn...
Acemoglu’s working-class liberalism explains why mature democracies are losing legitimacy. Pakistan presents a harder problem: constitutional...
There are accidents, and then there are disasters that are allowed to happen. The fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in...
Pakistan is passing through a difficult phase. The country is facing serious economic challenges, security threats are visible in different parts of...
For a brief moment after the collapse of the Soviet Union, liberal democracy appeared to have won the argument. Competitive elections, individual...
Pakistan’s blue-passport controversy should be read through a short chronology of expanding privileges on the part of militro-judicial-civil complex...
“All persons possessing a portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust”—Edmund Burke Fifteen...
Pakistan today stands at the frontline of climate vulnerability. The heavy monsoon floods of 2025, which drowned millions of acres of farmland,...
For decades, Pakistan's Barelvis had a fairly predictable set of religious rivals: Deobandis, Ahl-e-Hadith and, at times, Shias. Their sermons,...
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