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The debate over new provinces has resurfaced amid a deepening crisis of credibility in Pakistan’s political system—and it is not unfolding in a...
Pakistan does not need a hard state. It needs a development state. Egypt is a hard state; Vietnam is a development state. Anyone serious about...
The establishment wants to redraw the map. Pakistan's crisis was never about the map. Mohsin Naqvi has given an old idea a new sales pitch....
Mohsin Naqvi's declaration that Pakistan's governance system has collapsed was not a diagnosis. It was a confession. At the Pakistan...
Pakistan’s most expensive economic problem is not debt, taxation, or even corruption in the conventional sense. It is a political economy where...
Pakistan’s politics and economic stagnation cannot be understood merely as a problem of corruption, weak taxation or excessive debt, nor reduced to...
Two recent tweets by veteran journalists captured a mood of deep disillusionment in Pakistan’s media circles. Nusrat Javeed wrote that after “50...
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif recently rebuked Maulana Fazlur Rehman for suggesting soldiers fight for salaries, calling it an insult to the...
Pakistan's role in helping calm one of the Middle East's most dangerous confrontations has generated a wave of optimism in Islamabad. Donald...
Forty-nine years ago, General Zia-ul-Haq’s tanks moved on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government. I was twenty. Two months later, I, together with a...
Pakistan's emergence as a credible peace broker — from its quiet, persistent diplomacy between Washington and Tehran to the Islamabad...
Nearly 60 per cent of net federal revenue goes to interest payments. Subsidies and tax exemptions (Rs 2.53 trillion) for influential groups exceed...
Pakistan’s latest budget offers some targeted relief. Still, it essentially amounts to incremental tweaks rather than a bold strategy to reverse...
The PPP's recent victory in Gilgit-Baltistan has reinforced a familiar Pakistani narrative: electoral success as proof of effective governance....
On June 4, one day before the federal budget was originally scheduled to be presented to parliament, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a review...
Pakistan’s recent stabilisation has bought time. Reserves have improved. Remittance flows remain resilient. But stabilisation without transformation...
For much of the last two decades, Pakistan’s political leadership, economic managers, and international financial institutions promoted a reassuring...
When the IMF approved Pakistan’s latest programme review in May 2026, it quietly highlighted a contradiction that now sits at the centre of...
Pakistan’s inflation rate reached 10.9% in April 2026, its highest level since July 2024 and, given current fuel-driven price pressures, could move...
The idea of Pakistan as a major trade corridor—whether for Central Asia, China, or the wider Eurasian system—has an intuitive geopolitical appeal....
For years, Pakistan has been sold a comforting lie: build more gigawatts, sign more power purchase deals, throw money at new plants, and the lights...
In a recent post on X, Atif Mian argued that Pakistan could, by following China’s path and rapidly shifting to electric motorbikes and rickshaws,...
As the conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel enters its second month, Pakistan’s economy stands at a critical and increasingly...
In recent months, a notable strand of political discourse within Pakistan has centred on calls from certain quarters for the replacement of the...
Pakistan’s debt burden has become the defining constraint of its fiscal and economic future. According to data released by the State Bank of...
Primary school math textbooks produced by UNO and funded by USAID incorporated militant ideology to promote violence against Soviet soldiers. A...
In the 1960s and 1970s, Pakistani society—including its universities and colleges—was largely shaped by secular and progressive values....
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