Pakistan, June 22 -- Every government likes to build. A new building earns a ribbon-cutting ceremony. A new bridge becomes a headline. A new hospital is hailed as a symbol of progress. Concrete is ph... Read More
Pakistan, May 30 -- I have written about the Chenab's pulses, the sharp surges and sudden troughs that turn a Himalayan river into a regulated instrument. Those pulses are a story about timing: who co... Read More
Pakistan, May 26 -- The farmer does not leave wheat out of sentiment. He leaves when the arithmetic forces him to. In Okara, in Sahiwal, and in parts of Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan, that arithmetic... Read More
Pakistan, May 25 -- Pakistan treats wheat procurement as a provincial matter. The market does not. A procurement failure in Punjab travels. It moves through flour prices in Peshawar, through grain fl... Read More
Pakistan, May 23 -- Every policy distributes risk. Punjab's wheat transition was presented as a technical reform: reduce fiscal exposure, expand private participation, and move procurement away from ... Read More