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National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

Girls without choices: The human toll of child marriage

Child marriage, often cloaked in the guise of cultural tradition or economic necessity, remains a ...
National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

Pakistan’s classrooms enter the AI age

In a sunlit classroom in Karachi’s Clifton neighbourhood, a group of students sit before tablets, ...
National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

How ICTs can drive change in rural Pakistan

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have played an instrumental role since the mid-1990s in transforming ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

Pakistan’s cyclic debt crisis

Pakistan keeps running into the same old problem: its public debt just won’t stop growing, ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

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 ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

Pakistan’s slow-motion industrial disaster

The cost of doing business in Pakistan right now isn’t just a “statistic”—it’s an outright ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

An unhealthy state of affairs

Going by various reports and surveys published over the past few years, Pakistan’s health sector ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 12

Declining exports: a disturbing trend

Pakistan’s exports are currently facing a significant downturn, with goods exports falling to $15.2 billion ...
National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 11

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 ...
National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 11

Why Pakistan’s civic crisis persists

Civic problems in Pakistan have been growing steadily instead of diminishing, as one might expect ...