Opinion

Pakistan’s economic debate often oscillates between two extremes: calls for aggressive fiscal austerity on one side and demands for expansionary…

There are rumours of another amendment to our much-amended constitution – and this time it is said it might actually…

Oil. Natural gas. Rare earths. Each one followed the same trajectory. Physical scarcity first. Then commodity pricing. Then, futures markets.…

Governments globally either directly provide, or tightly regulate, the provision of electricity but not the provision of other important commodities…

Pakistan has reached a harrowing milestone in its environmental history, with per capita water availability falling to approximately 899 cubic…

Pakistan’s climate budget debate is no longer just about allocations but about whether the country is building a governance system…

The 18th Constitutional Amendment was one of the most consequential democratic reforms in Pakistan’s constitutional history. By devolving 17 major…

History remembers those who rise above constraints and reshape their destiny through courage, vision and collective resolve. For Pakistan, May…

Federal budget-making in Pakistan, when the country is in an IMF programme (and mostly it is in an IMF programme)…

The acts of terror by entities like the TTP and now their equally virulent variants like Ittehad-e-Mujahideen-e-Pakistan (IMP) have continued…