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Pakistan's Elite Capture Costs More Than $25 Billion A Year

Pakistan, July 20 -- Pakistan's politics and economic stagnation cannot be understood merely as a problem of corruption, weak taxation or excessive debt, nor reduced to a simple binary of civilian ver... Read More


What AI Cannot See In The Data

Pakistan, July 19 -- Artificial Intelligence has become one of the defining technologies of our age. Critics warn that tools such as ChatGPT and Claude are making people intellectually lazy by encoura... Read More


The Political Economy Of Fiscal Compression: Lessons From Sindh's Annual Development Programme 2026-27

Pakistan, July 19 -- The Political Economy Of Fiscal Compression: Lessons From Sindh's Annual Development Programme 2026-27 The formulation of Sindh's Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2026-27 will l... Read More


Pakistani Journalism Didn't Die, It Learned To Whisper

Pakistan, July 18 -- In June, an association of Punjab civil servants filed a complaint with Pakistan's cybercrime agency over a newspaper column. The offending material was not an investigation, not ... Read More


Pakistan's Economic Stability Means Little Without Jobs For Its Youth

Pakistan, July 18 -- I teach as a visiting faculty member at different universities in Islamabad. Interacting with young minds has always been an interesting and optimistic experience. Classroom discu... Read More


A Ceasefire Doomed

Pakistan, July 18 -- For a few fleeting moments during President Donald Trump's dinner date in France on 17 June, the guns of war were silent during the signing of a peace agreement. Three weeks later... Read More


Power Or Public Trust?

Pakistan, July 18 -- Perhaps the greatest lesson in Pakistan's political history is that power alone has never guaranteed political survival. Institutional support, administrative authority, media man... Read More


Of Blue Passports And Pakistan's Blues

Pakistan, July 18 -- The reticent and rushed passing of self-serving legislation by lawmakers is not an unknown trend in the country. In a most recent case, through a set of three laws, the MPAs of Kh... Read More


War, Oil And New Geopolitics: Can Pakistan Convert Crisis Into Strategic Opportunity?

Pakistan, July 17 -- When the first missiles were fired on February 28, 2026, many observers hoped that the conflict would remain geographically confined and diplomatically manageable. That optimism h... Read More


Balochistan And AJK: Pakistan's Dangerous Flashpoints

Pakistan, July 17 -- All the indicators depicting Pakistan's fault lines prove that Baluchistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) are the country's dangerous flashpoints. State actors and coalition gover... Read More