Evacuation crisis
My cousin Ahmad was nine years old when he suffered a severe head injury in Gaza. A year ago, a missile hit the house next to ours in Nuseirat. The…
Pakistan’s growth model is broken
One institution is calling for competitiveness and investment. The other is endorsing increased taxes and tariffs on those who create value. Both cannot be right. The World Bank’s latest Pakistan…
COP30: promise to performance
THE Conference of the Parties (COP) emerged under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Its purpose was clear yet…
The Afghanistan challenge
Contrary to Pakistan’s hopes that Taliban 2.0 would prove to be a friendly government, they have turned out to be very unfriendly, indeed hostile. Pakistan-Afghanistan relations have shown marked deterioration…
Why DTH never took off in Pakistan
In 2016, Pakistan stood on the threshold of what seemed like a transformative shift in television distribution. Pemra’s long-awaited auction of three Direct-to-Home (DTH) licenses for nearly Rs15 billion was…
Here is our Shaheen
In the infinite canvas of the sky, where winds whisper of freedom and destiny, there soars a force that embodies the very dream of Allama Muhammad Iqbal: the Pakistan Air…
Reclaiming Iqbal’s vision
Allama Muhammad Iqbal – poet–philosopher, jurist and one of the most original Muslim thinkers of the 20th century – remains a towering guide for nations seeking moral and economic renaissance.…
New vision, new approach for AJK
A major political reshuffle appears imminent in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK). But will it effectively revive the legitimacy of the prevailing political settlement among the people of AJK? Prima…
An organised public
Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York City is not simply a local upset. It is a breach in the ideological dam that has kept American politics safely contained for generations.…
Make Israel Great Again
ON Oct 6, 2023, you could not have imagined a world in which Israel was as widely hated as it is today; its very name is now a byword for genocide,…
