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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...
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...