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No exit clause

There is a kind of violence that leaves no crater and no casualty list, yet can starve a nation slower…

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A child sex abuse crisis

In a week that was bubbling with big events, what should this column be about? Technically, I have to make…

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Who decides what you pay at the pump?

Every minister, adviser and spokesperson will tell you the same thing: Pakistan’s petrol price is based on a rolling Platts/Oilgram…

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When governance breaks before the dam

When a temporary cofferdam collapsed at the Tarbela-5 Extension Hydropower Project, the immediate explanations were predictable. Engineers debated design. Contractors…

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When merit is ignored: The hidden cost of promoting incompetence

First of all, I would like to make clarify one thing that I am not targeting to anyone by this…

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The myth of a ‘poor’ centre

Advocates of a strong centre resurface periodically to oppose provincial devolution. Sometimes the rationales they conjure up are downright absurd.…

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Our population choice

On July 11, the world observed World Population Day. The day is very important because the world population is more…

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Start with the local

Two recent developments should force Pakistan to rethink its approach to infrastructure and governance. First, the EIU’s Global Liveability Index…

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Start with the local

Two recent developments should force Pakistan to rethink its approach to infrastructure and governance. First, the EIU’s Global Liveability Index…

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The provinces are not to blame

The World Bank’s detailed examination of Pakistan’s public finances, in its new report ‘Strengthening Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan’ (2026), delivers…

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