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Zakat as non-state social welfare

The profile most likely to receive zakat according to the conjoint experiment embedded in the survey was widowed women.

28.04.2025 90

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Trump’s tantrum

The simple fact is that the rhetoric of bringing back good jobs for American workers is eyewash.

14.04.2025 100

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The roots of crisis

This youth bulge is frequently talked about, but its scale and possible impact remains under-analysed.

31.03.2025 100

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Two decades of failure

The conversation on Balochistan would be better served by a frank discussion of what is likely to work.

17.03.2025 100

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Both welfare and growth

The absence of an economic vision linked to the people is a real gap in public discourse.

03.03.2025 50

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Three paths to power

What makes the third pathway successful is the striking of deals.

17.02.2025 90

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On the wounds of Partition

Seven decades and three generations removed, what good does it do to unearth the wounds of Partition on YouTube?

03.02.2025 100

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Middle class in crisis

There is no dollar bonanza forthcoming that can cheapen imports and sustain middle class consumption.

20.01.2025 100

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Diluted opposition

IT is worth understanding why despite large-scale and detrimental changes to judicial independence, widespread electoral manipulation last...

06.01.2025 70

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Who bears the cost?

THERE is growing acknowledgment of macroeconomic stabilisation in recent months. Inflation is down, the current account has posted surpluses for...

23.12.2024 10

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Beyond personality disorders

WHAT is the source of Pakistan’s political instability? The answer varies depending on who one asks and what their political affiliation may be....

09.12.2024 10

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The challenge of informality

SPEAKING to an audience in Riyadh earlier this year, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb labelled the undocumented economy Pakistan’s “biggest...

25.11.2024 5

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An unwanted fifth season

PUNJAB’S unwanted fifth season — smog — is currently in full bloom. Air quality in cities like Lahore, poor throughout the year, is at its toxic...

11.11.2024 4

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Context and intentions

MOST critiques of the 26th Constitutional Amendment focus on its impact on judicial independence. Thankfully, some clauses related to the supposed...

28.10.2024 4

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Restless natives

IN the national security perspective on Pakistan, the country is besieged by hostile forces seeking to undermine the security apparatus and/or...

14.10.2024 9

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Life of the Constitution?

AN effort to rush through a constitutional amendment was barely kept at bay, but statements from the ruling regime indicate that another attempt is...

30.09.2024 10

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Punjabi nationalism

IN comparison to other multiethnic/multicultural countries in Asia, like India and Malaysia, Pakistan is a bit of an anomaly in that the largest...

16.09.2024 10

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Sporting futures

PAKISTAN is a one-sport nation, and has been for the better part of five decades. Given its sheer population, underachievement across all other...

02.09.2024 2

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Outpacing the state

THE modern state differs from its earlier predecessors in that it seeks to regulate and control all aspects of the society it lays claim to....

19.08.2024 3

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The core-periphery bargain

DEPENDING on who delivers it, eulogies of Pakistan’s democracy tend to focus on a short-lived period of about a decade (or a decade and a half)...

05.08.2024 20

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‘Crisis of governability’

IN a recent piece published in the Journal of Democracy, scholars Adeel Malik and Maya Tudor provide an overview of why the Pakistani state is...

22.07.2024 30

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