Pakistan, Aug. 26 -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel to Bishkek on Monday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's Council of Heads of State Summit (Aug. 31-Sept. 1), sharing the st... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 26 -- The Cabinet Division is where the Pakistani state is meant to coordinate itself. It services the Cabinet, moves business between ministries, and is supposed to keep the machinery ... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 26 -- The debate over the creation of new provinces in the country has once again taken center stage in the political landscape. Conferences and seminars are being held across the natio... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 26 -- A province can be administratively justified and still be fiscally unsustainable. That distinction is largely missing from Pakistan's debate over new provinces. The issue is not o... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 25 -- In mid-July 2026, I went to Johi, a town in Dadu District, to write about an old temple. Before I reached it, however, I encountered a question of names: what should I call a buil... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 25 -- Pakistan has been independent for nearly eight decades. The Union Jack came down, the British went home, and we acquired our own flag, parliament, bureaucracy, courts and constitu... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 24 -- On August 19, 2026, Pakistan's Economic Coordination Committee sat in Islamabad and approved something so absurd it could only make sense in a country that has stopped keeping tra... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 24 -- Pakistan does not suffer from a shortage of development spending. It suffers from a shortage of development discipline. For decades, successive governments have poured billions of... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 24 -- For decades up till now, the concept of a "missile shield" captured the imagination of military planners and policymakers. The prevailing doctrine, championed most often by advanc... Read More
Pakistan, Aug. 21 -- "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" Voltaire Few would dispute that the contemporary world enjoys unprecedented access to scientific knowl... Read More