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The profile most likely to receive zakat according to the conjoint experiment embedded in the survey was widowed women.
The simple fact is that the rhetoric of bringing back good jobs for American workers is eyewash.
This youth bulge is frequently talked about, but its scale and possible impact remains under-analysed.
The conversation on Balochistan would be better served by a frank discussion of what is likely to work.
The absence of an economic vision linked to the people is a real gap in public discourse.
What makes the third pathway successful is the striking of deals.
Seven decades and three generations removed, what good does it do to unearth the wounds of Partition on YouTube?
There is no dollar bonanza forthcoming that can cheapen imports and sustain middle class consumption.
IT is worth understanding why despite large-scale and detrimental changes to judicial independence, widespread electoral manipulation last...
THERE is growing acknowledgment of macroeconomic stabilisation in recent months. Inflation is down, the current account has posted surpluses for...
WHAT is the source of Pakistan’s political instability? The answer varies depending on who one asks and what their political affiliation may be....
SPEAKING to an audience in Riyadh earlier this year, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb labelled the undocumented economy Pakistan’s “biggest...
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...
MOST critiques of the 26th Constitutional Amendment focus on its impact on judicial independence. Thankfully, some clauses related to the supposed...
IN the national security perspective on Pakistan, the country is besieged by hostile forces seeking to undermine the security apparatus and/or...
AN effort to rush through a constitutional amendment was barely kept at bay, but statements from the ruling regime indicate that another attempt is...
IN comparison to other multiethnic/multicultural countries in Asia, like India and Malaysia, Pakistan is a bit of an anomaly in that the largest...
PAKISTAN is a one-sport nation, and has been for the better part of five decades. Given its sheer population, underachievement across all other...
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....
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)...
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...