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Pakistan’s debate on local government has reached a point where a familiar question is no longer enough: do we believe in devolution? Almost every...
Proponents of administrative decentralization routinely attribute state failures to provincial incompetence, yet federal governance reveals an equally...
In April 2022, after Imran Khan lost a parliamentary vote of no confidence, Dr. Nadeem Malik, Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political...
I remember the room. It was 1991. We were junior engineers on WAPDA induction training, young men from every province, meant to learn the same soils...
“No person shall be deprived of his property save in accordance with law”—Article 24, Constitution of Pakistan There is something profoundly...
Pakistan has no shortage of institutions dealing with terrorism. The challenge is how effectively their efforts are connected, and whether...
Gloria Steinem's relationship with the CIA is sometimes treated as an embarrassing footnote to the life of America's most famous feminist....
At the end of the nineteenth century, the tract that would become Lyallpur district was still sparsely populated. Within a generation of the arrival...
Narendra Modi’s third term as Prime Minister was delivered by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the political vehicle of Hindutva, an ideology that seeks...
Pakistan’s circular debt debate often begins and ends with one number: the stock outstanding at the end of the financial year. But that number,...
A battery stores electricity. In Pakistan, it increasingly stores something else: protection against an uncertain power system. Households and...
Newsrooms and foreign ministries around the world are full of quotations, many of which have become detached from their original authors. One of the...
The most revealing diplomatic event of this year's UN General Assembly didn't happen in the marble halls of Turtle Bay. It happened two...
Pakistan has worked feverishly to contain a regional crisis that threatens not only the Middle East but also Pakistan’s economic interests, energy...
According to the reports of September 28, the assembly of Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) passed a non-binding resolution which endorsed...
In 2008, Saima Saleem became Pakistan’s first visually impaired diplomat, and in 2018, Yousaf Saleem became Pakistan’s first visually impaired...
The new “administrative units” proposal is struggling for justification; is it really the most pressing issue? What is the actual proposal and its...
After hearing of the postponement of the long march to Islamabad by Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, I took a sigh of relief. I also posed an honest question...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has once again placed Kashmir at the centre of Pakistan's diplomatic discourse. At the UN General Assembly, he...
A recent exchange with Syed Mustafa Kamal, Federal Minister for National Health Services, made me revisit an aspect of my recent article in The Friday...
On September 24, Pakistan's Information Minister announced air and drone strikes on ten locations in Afghanistan. The statement carried a heading...
If there was one unmistakable message emerging from the corridors of the United Nations in New York this week, it was this: Pakistan is no longer a...
Pakistan’s polycrisis is a self-created source of political instability that is eroding state implementation capacity, risking economic development...
The modern geopolitical landscape of South Asia is frequently portrayed as the inevitable outcome of ancient and irreconcilable religious conflict. In...
Four decades ago, on August 14, 1983, the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD), an alliance of almost all major political parties in the...
On 1 July 2026, China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress entered into force, giving legal form to one of Beijing’s most consequential...
Pakistan’s power sector no longer faces simply a shortage of electricity. It now faces a more difficult question: how to get greater value from the...
Huzaima stopped when she heard a donkey call. To her there was sadness in the sound. I had heard it often without wondering what the animal might be...
Though the war has stalemated, the indirect talks between Iran and the USA have not collapsed – threatening pasturing, pause in exchange of...
Underpasses can relieve isolated bottlenecks. But when they take priority over public transport, walkable streets, affordable housing, healthcare,...
Pakistan’s debt debate is trapped in the wrong question. Each budget season produces another argument about whether public debt has risen or fallen...
Cruella de Vil is hardly the character anyone would cite as a source of wisdom. The flamboyant villain of 101 Dalmatians, obsessed with fur and...
During Gen. Zia’s rule, the Pakistani state and society experienced a profound process of decadence, plunging the country into a long-term decline...
The USA security architecture constructed around the security of Israel, and the protection of Arab allies in the Middle East particularly the ruling...
With the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf announcing a march towards Islamabad on September 27, the country is once again witnessing a familiar confrontation...
The latest Pakistan-Afghanistan border clashes mark a dangerous turn in a crisis that has steadily worsened since the Taliban returned to power in...
“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose”—Albert Schweitzer Human history appears to have an incurable...
I still remember the sound of the chainsaws on Patriata. At 7,800 feet, the mountain carried one of the last intact stands of ancient conifer forest...
Pakistan does not need a stronger ruler. It needs a stronger system. For nearly eight decades, Pakistan has changed governments, constitutions,...
From recent political upheaval and subsequent instability to last year’s conflict with India, from navigating a turbulent Middle East to confronting...
The war in the Middle East has stalemated. Notwithstanding its economic, military, and technological strength, the USA has failed to defeat Iran. The...
Expressing over confidence despite back to back call for march to Islamabad, the government proceeded with daily increase in the prices of petrol and...
British rule ended nearly eight decades ago; the rulers left, but much of the logic of rule remained. Pakistan inherited a bureaucratic structure...
On September 27, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) plans to march toward Islamabad, led by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi. PTI...
Earlier this month, as drone and ballistic missile strikes hit deep into Saudi Arabia, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif announced that the...
Pakistan’s energy crisis is often described as a shortage of power, gas or fuel. But that is only part of the story. The deeper problem is that we...
Look at the screen long enough, and the numbers stop being prices. They become a verdict. Murban near 120 dollars, Urals at 121, the China marker at...
About seventy-six years ago, a newly independent Pakistan became one of the first Muslim countries to recognize the People’s Republic of China....
The Pakistan Peoples Party’s struggle against the working classes and progressive nationalist forces, accompanied by its shift to the Right,...
President Donald Trump came remarkably close on Sunday to ordering US strikes against Yemen's Houthis. According to The New York Times, military...
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