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When State Success Bypasses The Citizen

Pakistan, May 24 -- There is a story we read as children - perhaps you remember it still - of a magnificent kingdom where the boulevards were swept until they gleamed like mirrors, where fountains dan... Read More


India's Scientific Temper, Education System Under Siege

Pakistan, May 23 -- In the chaotic early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when laboratories across the world were racing to develop vaccines and antiviral drugs, India witnessed an extraordinary episo... Read More


The Significance Of Pope Leo XIV's Possible Visit To Pakistan

Pakistan, May 23 -- During their ad limina visit to the Vatican from 11-16 May, Pakistan's Catholic bishops invited Pope Leo XIV to visit Pakistan, where Christians constitute only about 1.5 percent o... Read More


Pakistan's Flood Crisis: Why We Keep Rebuilding Disaster

Pakistan, May 23 -- Pakistan is locked in a relentless cycle of catastrophic flooding that systematically erodes our national progress. The deluges of 2010, 2022 and, to an extent, 2025, were not mere... Read More


The Political Economy Of Wheat: Who The System Was Built For

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


Pakistan Senate Pays Glowing Tribute To Prince Rahim Aga Khan And Aga Khan Family

Pakistan, May 23 -- The Upper House of the Parliament of Pakistan paid rich tributes to His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan and the Aga Khan family for their relentless contributions to humanity, peace... Read More


Pakistani Youth And The Crisis Of Institutional Trust

Pakistan, May 22 -- The standard diagnosis of Pakistani youth and politics goes like this. Young people are apathetic. They don't vote. They don't organise. They are distracted by screens and consumed... Read More


After The Diplomacy, Before The Budget: Where Are We?

Pakistan, May 22 -- A year ago this week, we measured ourselves by what we could send up in the air. The country marked its first anniversary of Bunyan un Marsoos and Marka-e-Haq with the quiet satisf... Read More


When Provinces Become Too Large To Govern

Pakistan, May 22 -- The modern nation-state is undergoing a quiet but profound unbundling. For decades, political imagination was shaped by inherited maps of provinces and regions drawn in earlier era... Read More


The Abandoned Lifeline: Human Cost Of The Hormuz Deadlock

Pakistan, May 22 -- The evolution of modern geopolitical conflict has birthed a terrifying reality where international chokepoints are no longer just strategic economic leverage, but open-air prisons ... Read More