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Engineer Arshad H AbbasiThe News International |
When former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon walked away from his job this month warning that "superhuman systems" could bring human...
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...
There is a particular kind of grief reserved for self-inflicted wounds, and Pakistan's power sector deserves that grief more than almost any...
In 2008, I authored a report titled Pakistan Power Sector Outlook: Appraisal of KESC in Post-Privatisation Period. The inquiry hinged on one...
On August 19, 2026, Pakistan's Economic Coordination Committee sat in Islamabad and approved something so absurd it could only make sense in a...
Congratulations are owed first, and they should be said plainly. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed on August 7 between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,...
We are neither economists nor diplomats; one of us is a soldier, the other a mechanic. What follows is not a technical trade analysis but a raw,...
Imagine standing at 6,600 meters on the lethal slopes of Broad Peak where a single second can rewrite mountaineering history forever. On July 30,...
There are countries that suffer wars, and there are countries that suffer wars and the slow, deliberate murder of their own future. Afghanistan is the...
It is with a profound sense of grief and a heavy mourning heart that we must begin this appeal. We live in a tragic reality where the very survival of...
When the world is only beginning to breathe a sigh of relief after the dangerous military confrontation between the United States and Iran—a crisis...
We write as concerned citizens on a matter that deserves the Prime Minister's direct, personal attention: the slow collapse of the watershed that...
In 1960, when Eugene Black and the World Bank brokered the Indus Waters Treaty, they did not simply settle a dispute between two new states. They...
I have spent the better part of twenty years doing something that should, in any functioning state, be entirely unremarkable. I have been asking for...
There is a particular cruelty in being destroyed slowly by people carrying briefcases. Pakistan was not broken by earthquakes or invasion. It was...
Every May, as the temperature climbs in the plains below, the headlines arrive in Pakistan with the grim reliability of a recurring illness: soaring...
I am not a diplomat, not a sociologist, and not a strategic thinker. I write simply as a close observer of Afghan society—someone who has worked on...
A few weeks ago, I was invited by a group of senior diplomats to offer my assessment of India’s suspension of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. The...
When the guardian turns deceiver, the fall is never gentle. It is written in ruin. In every society, when those entrusted with protection begin to...
For decades, Pakistan has struggled with economic instability, chronic debt, infrastructural decay, and stagnant growth. Analysts often point to...
There is a number that stalks Pakistan like a curse — so large that it drowns our ambitions, mocks our sovereignty, and keeps our ministers flying...