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Why A Wealth Tax Is No Longer Radical But Necessary

Pakistan, July 16 -- As the G20 leaders prepare to convene in South Africa, a powerful civil society movement has emerged, calling for a 2 percent annual wealth tax on the world's richest 3,000 billio... Read More


Pakistan Must Resist Modi's War Hysteria Through Rational, Peace-Centred Diplomacy

Pakistan, July 15 -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks that Pakistanis are afraid of him. He has said this in so many words many times in his public appearances. Serious political analysis al... Read More


Monsoon Chaos Exposes Pakistan's Broken Water Management And Ecological Amnesia

Pakistan, July 15 -- The monsoon came early this year, like an uninvited guest who barges in before the host can prepare. It arrived on the heels of a snowless winter and a blistering heatwave, soakin... Read More


Baloch Insurgency Mirrors 1971 Crisis As Proxy War Threatens Pakistan's Unity

Pakistan, July 14 -- Although I was born four years after the Indo-Pak war of 1965, the stories I read and heard throughout my childhood spoke of a resolute Pakistan defeating India from all sides. Th... Read More


How Patriotic Songs Became Pakistan's Soft Power Arsenal In War And Peace

Pakistan, July 14 -- During the recent Pakistan-India conflict, like thousands of other countrymen, I began to unconsciously gravitate towards listening to patriotic songs. Shuja Haider's Main Urra an... Read More


Bhai Dalpatram As Sant, Polyglot, Poet And Symbol Of Sindhyat

Pakistan, July 14 -- My exploration of the influence of Persian poetry - particularly Ferdowsi's Shahnameh - on classical Sindhi poetry yielded an unexpected result. Instead of dedicated academic stud... Read More


Scorched And Forgotten: Peri-Urban Pakistan Faces Deadly Heat With No Shield

Pakistan, July 14 -- This summer, Pakistan isn't just hot-it's scorching. Across Sindh and Punjab, the mercury has crossed 49C, placing cities like Jacobabad and Nawabshah among the hottest places on ... Read More


The Mosaic Of Terrorism In Pakistan: Part 5

Pakistan, July 14 -- This decade was marked by a complex, multidimensional milieu of sectarian violence, ethnic militancy, political instability, the evolution of Al-Qaida and its affiliates, birth an... Read More


Cutting The Gordian Knot: Can India And Pakistan Move Beyond Decades Of Deadlock?

Pakistan, July 14 -- Except during the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars, relations between the two erstwhile neighbours were never so remorseful as today. The post-Operation Sindoor events tend to further ... Read More


Lahore's Yellow Line Project Sparks Backlash Over Cost And Environmental Damage

Pakistan, July 11 -- "It is very important that there should be cross fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works"... Read More