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Pakistan’s private medical education sector is facing a crisis that policymakers can no longer afford to ignore. In 1988, Baqai Medical College...
Does anyone truly expect a miracle from PTI's march to Islamabad tomorrow? Would the government release jailed PTI leaders and announce fresh...
Pakistan’s 2026 monsoon season has once again hit the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) particularly hard. Now incorporated into...
A common saying goes, “perception matters more than reality.” Given the perseverance of the Indian media, a vast majority of India’s population...
For a country blessed with some of the most dramatic landscapes and layered histories on earth, Pakistan remains oddly absent from the world's...
There is a common tendency among groups both oppositional and sympathetic to Marxism to treat it as a uniform ideology. For many critics in Pakistan,...
This country has suffered a lot at the hands of imprudent leaders, incompetent bureaucrats, adventurist generals, self-centred political dynasties and...
Few defence systems in the world have been marketed with as much awe as Russia’s S-400 Triumf. Heralded as a near-impenetrable shield, it is meant...
This year’s United Nations General Assembly High-level Week took place from 18-28 September in New York. It was the last meeting for...
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell After hearing of the postponement of...
In the last scheduled review of Pakistan’s Monetary Policy (September 14, 2026), a couple of weeks back, the State Bank of Pakistan’s Monetary...
There is something strange about leadership. We expect leaders to have answers. The higher someone rises in an organisation, the less comfortable we...
Global energy markets remain vulnerable to geopolitical tensions, supply disruptions and fluctuations in international oil prices. For countries like...
The relationship between the soldier and the state forms the bedrock of national sovereignty. Across civilisations, the primary purpose of an armed...
Human history is filled with pages where people have voluntarily and enthusiastically paid homage to ruthless aristocracy, royalty and despots. One or...
We need to start a phased Initiation and Piloting Strategy by starting with 10–15% of interested women; then a disciplined, step-by-step framework...
Washington's relationship with Islamabad used to run on a single track. Now, it's running on at least three, and the order in which this...
The contemporary issue of climate change is an existential threat to the global population. The transcontinental impact of climate change and rising...
One question always arises, and we think: why are these women on the road? Why can we not provide a solution for double income? Why can we not empower...
This will undoubtedly be one of the most consequential midterm elections in recent history. In the past two years, policies enacted by President Trump...
For Pakistan, this means Gwadar can contribute to a larger connectivity strategy rather than functioning as an isolated infrastructure project....
The answer is straightforward. Wars are not fought only by armies. Ports, energy routes, industries, employment and ordinary citizens also bear their...
When the people building the technology begin asking for the race to slow down, governments should listen. In February 2020, life looked normal....
The emerging maritime partnership between Pakistan’s Gwadar Port and Oman’s Sohar Port deserves attention far beyond the language of bilateral...
When the entire world seems in chaos, war continues in Gaza. When war continues in Gaza, participants (peacemakers) turn into spectators. When...
There is no shortcut to understanding Balochistan. To view it through the last two years is to miss it. That is why every serious briefing in Quetta...
Understanding Middle Eastern politics through slogans, emotional claims and a single narrative of “secret conspiracies” may be convenient, but...
Political scientists studying farmer and peasant mobilisation have converged on a simple sequence to explain when ordinary economic pain turns into...
Last week the Senate saw a rare debate between the differing government benches on whether the so-called stabilisation and the stifling growth...
Election results in European countries influence other countries, even if they are on other continents. The results may indicate broader trends. The...
In Pakistan, petrol and electricity prices are no longer just numbers in the monthly budget, but have become the biggest problems in the daily life of...
In an age when information is readily available at the click of a button, admitting we don't know something about a subject has become difficult....
Pakistan is not suffering from a dearth of economic visions, growth strategies, development frameworks and institutional arrangements to achieve them...
A new map does not automatically produce a new political culture. The debate should consequently move beyond the binary question of whether Pakistan...
Pakistan somehow continues to remain highly dependent on imported petroleum, with a quite significant share of its oil supplies originating from the...
The Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y (Millennials), and subsequent generations, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, are fortunate to have been born in an independent...
Climate change is not merely an environmental issue, but rather a profound crisis affecting national security, the economy, health, food security, and...
For four years, Ukraine's Black Sea ports have rarely gone quiet. Ships kept moving even under missile fire, carrying grain that much of the...
As Pakistan enters its 79th year, the debate over new provinces and administrative units has once again acquired political prominence. But before...
In response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration rushed to implement domestic and foreign policies that had dramatic consequences...
This ill-intentioned Gulf War has already transformed the ME’s strategic environment in a profound and emphatic manner. Its paradigms are being...
A diplomatic reception. The kind where chandeliers gleam, and conversations are conducted in such a careful way that says nothing and means...
Hi, ChatGPT, people are sharing their old versions of the 1980s, and I also want to create the same. ChatGPT answered, “Yes, Sadam, I can transform...
The current state of Test cricket in Pakistan has made the past look unusually distant. Pakistan have not won a Test match in Australia since 1995, in...
After instigating the US’ war on Iran, Israel smartly manoeuvred itself out of the Persian Gulf theatre of war, leaving the US alone to suffer the...
There is a tragic absurdity to modern cross-border sportsmanship, perfectly encapsulated when the Indian women’s cricket team recently followed...
International experts reject the simplistic explanation that national/military disasters are merely the product of individual incompetence or...
In a conflict, the primary focus remains on kinetics, but in contemporary conflicts, perception management has attained equal significance; rather,...
The ongoing speculative and confusing discussions on the need to have ‘more provinces’, later altered to ‘more administrative units’, were...
An aspiring judge should be able to look at previous recruitment cycles and understand where candidates have historically struggled. Preparation could...
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