The good news is that at the global level, there is a gradual,...]]> ]]> Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi's recent remarks on Pakistan's governance crisis have reignited familiar debates about constitutional reform, administrative...]]> ]]> Regional and global developments over the past 18 months have placed Pakistan in a strategic sweet spot....]]> ]]> "Achieving a lasting peace...]]> ]]> The demand for new provinces in Pakistan consistently provokes significant political anxiety. Proposals for administrative division often encounter...]]> ]]> The Chenab is more than a line on a map. It's a...]]> ]]> There is something deeply familiar about Mohsin Naqvi's diagnosis of Pakistan's governance crisis. Anyone who has spent decades...]]> ]]> This is the third in a series on Pakistan's broken public financial reporting system. The second article in these pages, 'So, who owns the numbers? ', showed that responsibility for...]]> ]]> For most of the world, rain is a blessing. But in Sindh's cities – Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur – a few hours of heavy rainfall can turn hope into hardship....]]> ]]> Pakistan has lately made local and global...]]> ]]> The greatest risk of artificial intelligence is not that machines will outthink us. It is that they will inherit our oldest inequalities and write them into the infrastructure of the future, at a speed...]]> ]]> While the missiles fly in the Middle East, the most immediate shockwaves are being felt in regional capitals, as well as in the sprawling markets and boardrooms of Pakistan.

The...]]> ]]> This is the story of a politician whose home saw three funeral processions of martyrs, and who himself survived several assassination attempts.

After the...]]> ]]> Five years after the Afghan Taliban returned to Kabul, Pakistan is confronting a...]]> ]]> In a surprise move, US President Donald Trump unilaterally paused daily strikes on Iran on Friday.

It is unclear what caused President Trump to halt direct strikes on Iranian...]]> ]]> When India emerged from colonial rule in...]]> ]]> Pakistan has entered a phase of climate governance whiplash where extreme...]]> ]]> As all is set for polls in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on July 27th, the boycott of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , which...]]> ]]> There's a peculiar ritual that used to play out every week in Pakistan. A notification would...]]>