Who Owns Pakistan's Debt?

Pakistan, Oct. 6 -- Pakistan's domestic debt has increased to Rs58.1tn, an 11pc increase over the past year. Public debt stood at 70.7pc of GDP in FY25, well above the 56pc legal ceiling under the Fis... Read More

Justice In Limbo: Gilgit-Baltistan Apex Court Cannot Wait Any Longer

Pakistan, Oct. 6 -- The Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court needs a three-judge bench. Lawyers have long said it has been operating with a single judge for many years. Since 2021, from Justice Wa... Read More

825 BJP Seats, Zero Muslim MPs: What Does India's Biggest Number Tell Us?

Pakistan, Oct. 6 -- In 2014 the Bharatiya Janata Party won 282 Lok Sabha seats, in 2019 it won 303, and in 2024 it won 240: 825 in all. None went to a Muslim. In 2024, none of the 24 Muslims elected t... Read More

Global Crisis, Local Choices - The Real Cost Of Pakistan's Fuel Price Hikes

Pakistan, Oct. 6 -- For a government, a fuel price increase is a notification taking effect at exactly 12 midnight. For an ordinary citizen, it is a household budget falling apart before morning. Dail... Read More

The Mingling Of Hearts: What Ibn Arabi, Hafez And Saadi Teach Us

Pakistan, Oct. 5 -- In its final stages of publication, The Mingling of the Oceans: A Theory of How Civilizations Can Live Together, forthcoming from Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Frankie Martin and myself,... Read More

ABHI Microfinance Bank Signs MoU With RCCI To Strengthen SMEs

Pakistan, Oct. 5 -- ABHI Microfinance Bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (RCCI) to strengthen Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by... Read More

The Ironclad Partnership And The Emerging Architecture Of The Global South

Pakistan, Oct. 5 -- In an era defined by shifting power balances and contested narratives, the China-Pakistan relationship stands as one of the more durable strategic alignments of the twenty-first ce... Read More

Climate Change: The Existential Threat To Pakistan's Food Security

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- Climate change, driven by deforestation, fossil-fuel use and rapid industrialisation, has emerged as an existential threat. The issue of climate change and rising global temperatur... Read More

2100: The Century When Wisdom Learned To Work With Intelligence

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- This essay began, unexpectedly, with a television show. Watching Star Trek, I found myself fixated on a small detail I had seen a hundred times before without really seeing it. The... Read More

Plastic Bags: The Convenience That Chokes Our Cities

Pakistan, Oct. 4 -- Plastic bags have become one of the most visible symbols of Pakistan's growing environmental crisis. From clogged drainage systems and polluted canals to contaminated agricultural ... Read More

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