Opinion

Budget season is here

Rethinking Pakistan's expenditure model

The economy in 25 years

The elusive Indus

Anticipatory action financing

Climate budget at a crossroads

Competitive federalism or centralised provincial monopolies?

The cost of underinvestment

Rethinking Pakistan's fiscal model

Bank nationalisation: ideology or necessity?

Reordering the Middle East

The echo of Chagai

The two-tariff solution

A budget written in commitments

Budgeting beyond control

Terror challenge

Megawatt nationalism is over

The indignity of being salaried

Pakistan's economic overhaul

Pakistan's lost children

The border as lifeline

28th time the charm?

Your competition in 2027 isn't a person, it's software with a wallet

The Chagai dividend

Superpower dynamics

Pakistan's long war

Connecting the dots

Beyond Operation Sindoor

Surviving India's water war

Compute is the new oil

From Marqa-e-Haq to Marqa-e-Taraqqi

Memories of May

Investing in mothers

Middle power or hard state?

Moment of pride

Markets beyond geography, policies need to catch up

The May 2025 aftermath

West Asia after the war

Promise, paradox, persistent neglect

Building bridges for peace

The Marka-e-Haq win

A society to reinvent

Was MQM leader Azeem Ahmed Tariq aware of his fate in 1988?

The limits of American power

Beyond the exit

Committed to peace

The strategic blind spot

Political economy of power failure

Pakistan as diplomatic bridge

Iran war's surprises

How to overcome strategic imprudence

The energy trap we keep choosing

EVs alone won't fix the problem

A war nobody wanted to own

A case for fuel reforms

Iran and the bomb

Pakistan has an access problem

Pakistan as a middle power

Failure to monetise

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Rethinking Pakistan's expenditure model

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