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The Budget That Fails To Address The Debt Crisis

Pakistan, June 15 -- Pakistan's latest budget offers some targeted relief. Still, it essentially amounts to incremental tweaks rather than a bold strategy to reverse long-term economic decline, contro... Read More


Zero-Knowledge Architecture: Why Pakistan's Power Grid Will Soon Match The Landline

Pakistan, June 15 -- I have spent the better part of twenty years doing something that should, in any functioning state, be entirely unremarkable. I have been asking for electricity data. Not secrets... Read More


Why Pakistan Must Criminalise Abetment Of Suicide By Mental Torture

Pakistan, June 15 -- In December 2025, Additional Sessions Judge Mirza Tauseef Ahmed of Karachi did something unusual. He acquitted a husband who had driven his wife to suicide and then publicly lamen... Read More


BNU Launches Pakistan's First Documented Drug-Free Campus Framework

Pakistan, June 14 -- Beaconhouse National University (BNU) has launched Pakistan's first comprehensive institutional framework addressing substance abuse and mental health among university students, i... Read More


How Topography Shapes Destiny

Pakistan, June 14 -- There exists a wonderful tradition at my husband's workplace that they give their employees a set of carefully selected books every December to read in the coming year. This pract... Read More


The Silent Fault Line In Families: Intimacy And Strain In Pakistan

Pakistan, June 14 -- The recent killing of a woman in Karachi, allegedly following a dispute over marital intimacy, has shocked the nation. While the incident demands legal accountability, it also rai... Read More


Pakistan's Water Crisis: From Policy Paralysis To A Public Health Emergency

Pakistan, June 14 -- Pakistan's water emergency has grown from a muted environmental fear into a national emergency. Once blessed with rich rivers and aquifers, the country now encounters severe conta... Read More


A Force Built To Demolish Turns On Forman's Heritage

Pakistan, June 14 -- On Friday evening, hundreds of Christians gathered on the Mall, the grand artery at the heart of colonial Lahore, to protest a seizure that has shaken one of Pakistan's oldest edu... Read More


Hijacking Kashmir: How The JAAC Protests Serve India's Settler-Colonial Project

Pakistan, June 13 -- The current agitation by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir comes at a particularly sensitive moment for the Kashmir cause. What began as a movement... Read More


Nahin Abhi Nahin: What Pakistani Media Forgot Since 1980

Pakistan, June 12 -- "Our elders are right. Flowers that bloom before their time also die prematurely. I shall eat this fruit but... no, not just yet." There is a line near the end of Nahin Abhi Nahi... Read More