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The Hush In Pakistan: On Silence, Stray Dogs, And Normalized Cruelty

Pakistan, Aug. 16 -- What is happening to stray dogs across Pakistan is not only an animal-welfare issue; it is a question of ethics, public health, and who we choose to protect. It is time that we, a... Read More


CPEC Phase Two: Shifting Focus From Concrete To Commerce

Pakistan, Aug. 16 -- Pakistan built the highways, lit up the power plants, and dredged Gwadar into a working port. What it has not built is a way to turn any of that into more exports. A decade after ... Read More


Where Memory Still Burns - A Journey To Sindh's Raj Ghat Darbar

Pakistan, Aug. 15 -- I left Karachi in the early hours of the morning. It was the first week of March 2026, and my destination was Raj Ghat Darbar in Thatta. As the car passed through Saddar, the abse... Read More


A Case For 123 Provinces

Pakistan, Aug. 15 -- When Pakistan came into being, its eastern wing contained the majority of its population. In the 1951 census, East Pakistan had about 42 million people against 34 million in West ... Read More


The Mecca Pact: Strategic Power And Ground Realities

Pakistan, Aug. 15 -- It was 5th June, 1967. Isreal launched a surprise preemptive air strike on Egyptian airfields. In the ensuing six days war, the Arab world suffered a humiliating defeat. Saudi Ara... Read More


Only Fools Contest Over Forms Of Government

Pakistan, Aug. 15 -- The best form of administration is the one that delivers effectively at the grassroots. The debate over the creation of new administrative units in Pakistan has once again brought... Read More


Pakistan's Missing Link In FDI: Engaging The Private Sector

Pakistan, Aug. 15 -- Pakistan's foreign direct investment debate has largely focused on one question: how can the government attract more foreign investors? Investment conferences are organised, deleg... Read More


The Untold Stories Of Human Smuggling Victims In Iraq And Pakistan

Pakistan, Aug. 15 -- Human smuggling or migrant smuggling is not a new phenomenon, however, its new extended dimensions in modern era have become more dangerous especially for the victims who are not ... Read More


Echoes Of No Man's Land: Trauma, Memory And The Unfinished Story Of Partition

Pakistan, Aug. 14 -- This iconic macaronic absurdist couplet, ending in bathetic invective, from Saadat Hasan Manto's seminal 1955 afsaana Toba Tek Singh resounds in the mind and heart as if re-living... Read More


Are We Independent?

Pakistan, Aug. 14 -- Every year, on 14 August, we celebrate independence with flags, national anthems, ceremonies and speeches. We remember the struggle that brought a new country into existence and h... Read More