Girls without choices: The human toll of child marriage
Child marriage, often cloaked in the guise of cultural tradition or economic necessity, remains a ...
Pakistan’s classrooms enter the AI age
In a sunlit classroom in Karachi’s Clifton neighbourhood, a group of students sit before tablets, ...
How ICTs can drive change in rural Pakistan
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played an instrumental role since the mid-1990s in transforming ...
Pakistan’s cyclic debt crisis
Pakistan keeps running into the same old problem: its public debt just won’t stop growing, ...
Pakistan’s economy: Out of the woods, but into the weeds
The World Bank’s recent check-in on Pakistan’s economy feels like a classic “glass half-full, glass ...
Pakistan’s slow-motion industrial disaster
The cost of doing business in Pakistan right now isn’t just a “statistic”—it’s an outright ...
An unhealthy state of affairs
Going by various reports and surveys published over the past few years, Pakistan’s health sector ...
Declining exports: a disturbing trend
Pakistan’s exports are currently facing a significant downturn, with goods exports falling to $15.2 billion ...
Why SMEs will not drive growth without deeper reform
Pakistan’s fresh push to spotlight small and medium enterprises (SMEs) feels timed perfectly—right as the ...
Why Pakistan’s civic crisis persists
Civic problems in Pakistan have been growing steadily instead of diminishing, as one might expect ...