The invisible bribe
Another survey has dropped, and it’s showing the same old weird twist we keep seeing ...
Terrorist menace: an existential challenge
Pakistan has been hit by a series of dastardly terrorist attacks in recent weeks, triggering ...
Pakistan’s deepening debt crisis
According to the Annual Debt Review for Fiscal Year 2025 prepared by the Debt Management ...
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 ...