Elite veto, national cost
From industry subsidies to clerical defiance, Pakistan’s elite often treat the state as a resource to be hollowed out
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The persisting impasse
Imtiaz Gul | Updated 8 hours agoCan CPEC reach Afghanistan if borders stay shut?
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When power defines peace, and victims are excluded
Faisal Kutty | Updated 8 hours agoA "Board of Peace" with no Palestinians?
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The new life of the 'peela school'
Dr Intikhab Ulfat | Updated 8 hours agoSindh’s public school students are reimagining their world, proving that constraints can be creative engines
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Good hegemon, bad hegemon
Shahzad Chaudhry | Updated Jan 30, 2026Political restructuring, multipolarity at Davos' WEF annual meeting 2026
Work in progress!
Ali Akbar Madraswala | Updated Jan 30, 2026While Sindh government daydreams infrastructure, Karachi citizens face the city's urban, political collapse every day
The politics of delay
Amna Hashmi | Updated Jan 30, 2026Colonisation was also enforced through bureaucratic, judicial slowness, dampening sparks of revolt
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Indebted nation
Updated 8 hours agoEach Pakistani now owes Rs333,000 as total debt hits Rs80.5tn, threatening to eclipse the national GDP
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Nipah virus
Updated 8 hours agoPakistan remains Nipah-free, but officials ramp up border screening as the deadly virus surfaces in India
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Adiala to PIMS
Updated Jan 30, 2026Khan, in solitary confinement, denied audience for more than 100 days, is unbecoming of democracy
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Elite veto, national cost
Updated 8 hours agoFrom industry subsidies to clerical defiance, Pakistan’s elite often treat the state as a resource to be hollowed out
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The new life of the 'peela school'
Updated 8 hours agoSindh’s public school students are reimagining their world, proving that constraints can be creative engines
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Good hegemon, bad hegemon
Updated Jan 30, 2026Political restructuring, multipolarity at Davos' WEF annual meeting 2026
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The global development crisis
Updated Jan 30, 2026Reducing international aid signals a collapse in the idea that wealthy states owe it to help vulnerable countries
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Pluribus and Islam
Updated Jan 29, 2026AI dystopia underscores why Islam values choice, repentance, imperfection
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Oh, for the seats of my youth
Updated Jan 29, 2026Security may be necessary, but turning campuses into fortresses suffocates learning
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Five failures in five years: ISRO's launch crisis a national liability
Updated Jan 29, 2026Space success depends on reliability, ISRO is dangerously losing it
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Shaping up the future world
Updated Jan 29, 2026Global South is pushing back as great powers weaponise markets, energy, technology
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