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Pakistan’s ‘cautiously optimistic’ recovery meets new pressures

Pakistan’s Ministry of Finance has struck a note of tempered hope in its latest Monthly ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 03

Pakistan’s investment drought

Pakistan’s economic engine sputters under the weight of chronically low investment, a malaise that has ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 03

Governance fault lines widen

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA) has thrust Pakistan’s ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 03

COP30: climate diplomacy fails once again

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) failed to yield the results expected from it. ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 03

Rising unemployment: A ticking time bomb

According to the latest Labour Force Survey released last week by the Pakistan Bureau of ...
National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 02

Workplaces or graveyards?

In the shadowed underbelly of Pakistan’s booming textile hubs and makeshift workshops, the line between ...
National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 02

Cotton to cane: How sugar barons hijacked Pakistan’s agricultural future

Over the last three decades, Pakistan’s agricultural heartland has undergone a seismic shift, one that ...
National VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 02

Why next amendment must drive structural reform—not political consolidation

Former federal minister and a key figure within the ruling coalition party, the Pakistan Muslim ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 02

IMF’s stark diagnosis of Pakistan

In a scathing indictment that lays bare the rot at the heart of Pakistan’s institutions, ...
FeaturedNational VOLUME 21 ISSUE # 02

When progress bypasses people

In a nation where gleaming skyscrapers in Lahore contrast starkly with dust-swept villages in Balochistan, ...