The Military And Pakistan's Perpetual Legitimacy Crisis

Pakistan, Aug. 3 -- Last year I attended a wedding function in Lahore. There I met a very senior military official who had recently retired from a sensitive posting. Not at all surprisingly, he was fu... Read More

Who Can Pakistan Really Afford?

Pakistan, Aug. 3 -- Pakistan is frequently portrayed as a country perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy. Every budget season, citizens are told that the government has exhausted its options, that mor... Read More

15 Years On, What Did the US Truly Learn From the Iraq War?

Pakistan, Aug. 3 -- Less than 18 months after the US overthrew the Taliban from Kabul, it embarked on a mission to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad. In October 2001, Afghanistan was attack... Read More

Three Governments, Zero Result

Pakistan, Aug. 3 -- For seventy-eight years, Pakistan has changed almost everything about who governs it. It has elected feudal families, embraced populist leaders, lived under military rule and exper... Read More

Against All Odds: How Arshad Nadeem Exposed The Fault Lines In Pakistani Athletics

Pakistan, Aug. 2 -- The disappointment over Arshad Nadeem's performance at the Commonwealth Games is understandable. Expectations were always going to be extraordinarily high after what he achieved at... Read More

The Wealth Of Nations Begins In The Classroom

Pakistan, Aug. 2 -- For every nation, there comes a defining moment when it must decide what kind of future it wishes to build. For Pakistan, that moment is now. While public debate continues to revol... Read More

When Liquidity Becomes A Substitute For Reform: The Political Economy Of PSO's Crisis

Pakistan, Aug. 1 -- Pakistan's primary maritime energy corridors are currently affected by the regional conflict. The Strait of Hormuz has been blocked since the Iran-USA conflict escalated, and Qatar... Read More

Six Insurgencies, One Thread: Analysing The Root Causes Of Balochistan's Strife

Pakistan, Aug. 1 -- The recent Baloch strife is begotten out of the decades long neglect of the periphery by the core in Pakistan. The aetiology of the present strife features six insurgencies, each o... Read More

Has The System Truly Collapsed?

Pakistan, July 31 -- Political crises do not always begin with the rumble of tanks. More often, they begin with a remark that appears, on the face of it, quite ordinary but which, with the passage of ... Read More

Development Induced Floods In Punjab

Pakistan, July 31 -- The few days of rains in central Punjab districts have once again caused massive inundation of rain water along Deg Nala from district Narowal to Lahore and downstream to Sheikhup... Read More

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