1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (401+ words) A government quota is meaningful only when the opportunities it creates reach the people for whom they were intended. Recent figures released by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) following an RTI-related complaint raise an important question about the implementation…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1338+ words) Gender-based violence is not a new phenomenon in Pakistan. However, the recent killing of Hina Javed in Rawalpindi, allegedly at the hands of her husband, has once again triggered debate on this pressing issue. What is particularly distressing is that…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (208+ words) Pakistan has moved from the question of access to the question of price and tenor. That is progress. It is still early, still fragile, and still reversible. Second, keep the primary surplus on a credible path and protect the tax-base…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (791+ words) Keeping a business running requires attention long after its doors first open. Customers continue to need services, routine decisions carry consequences, and responsibility returns with each working day. For young entrepreneurs involved in family businesses, this ongoing work provides an…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (213+ words) By: Kashif Hussain, Senior Media Professional A half-truth does not always require a false statement. Sometimes, all it requires is half the evidence. That is a question of relative risk, not an argument for calling any nicotine product harmless. This…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1518+ words) Since Trump became the 47th President of the United States of America, he has been brazenly using the powers vested in him by the Constitution. Unilateral executive actions, such as blanket announcements of tariffs on friends and foes alike, the war…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1307+ words) Travel is easy to undertake, convenient to describe, difficult to write, and harder still to write well about. Anyone can recount a journey. Few can turn a journey into literature that changes the way we see the world. Paul Theroux…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (132+ words) Book: How Pakistan Transformed as a Deep State: Power, National Interest and National Security Ethics International Press, UK, 2026. 214pp. The book is generously sourced. Aqil Shah, Hasan Askari Rizvi, Husain Haqqani, Stephen Cohen, Hasan Zaheer and Rounaq Jahan all appear, and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1536+ words) The debate surrounding the creation of new provinces in Pakistan has resurfaced with renewed intensity. On one side, it is framed as a pathway to better administration, effective governance, and bringing the state closer to the people. On the other,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1715+ words) There is a particular kind of grief reserved for self-inflicted wounds, and Pakistan's power sector deserves that grief more than almost any other sector of its economy. This is not the story of a country brought low by war, sanctions,…...