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Syed Khawar MehdiDawn |
It is high time we got down to the nuts and bolts of devolution, dispensed with the intellectual calisthenics and stopped wandering through political...
Pakistan’s Constitution tells two different stories about devolution. The first concerns the relationship between the Federation and the Provinces....
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...
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...
Pakistan does not need a stronger ruler. It needs a stronger system. For nearly eight decades, Pakistan has changed governments, constitutions,...
Karachi is not merely a city in crisis. It is a warning about the consequences of a governance structure that has become too centralised, too...
History rarely announces the arrival of a new diplomatic actor with fanfare. More often, states rise in influence gradually through a succession of...
Pakistan’s foreign policy has often been described in grand strategic terms: geostrategic relevance, regional balancing, Islamic solidarity,...
In the aftermath of a fragile yet consequential ceasefire—one in which Islamabad is believed to have played a discreet but meaningful role—a...
Pakistan stands at a moment that is easy to misread. Across our wider region, instability once again dominates the conversation—energy uncertainty...