Economy: a wide gap between official claims and ground realities
The National Accounts Committee (NAC) is reported to have approved GDP growth of 3.71 percent ...
Cotton’s early collapse: A crisis unfolding before harvest ends
Even as the cotton season continues, the warning signs are already impossible to dismiss. By ...
Radicalisation in Pakistan and the unresolved crisis of merged tribal ...
While Pakistan is striving hard to defeat extremism and terrorism perpetrated in the name of ...
Stabilisation without competitiveness
At a time when official statements are emphasising economic stabilisation and renewed confidence, a warning ...
Why Pakistan’s external account keeps unravelling
Pakistan’s external account is once again showing clear signs of stress, and the fault lines ...
Stability claims vs reform reality
A recent statement by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Resident Representative in Islamabad has quietly ...
2025: A year of conflict, diplomacy, and crisis
2025 proved to be a turbulent and consequential year for Pakistan, marked by a renewed ...
Industrial growth stunted by high energy costs and heavy taxation
The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has written a letter to the prime minister, drawing attention ...
When water turns deadly
On a winter morning in December, as Lahore’s fog hung low over clogged drains and ...
Human cost of terrorism on education in Balochistan& KP
In the unforgiving mountains and vast deserts of Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces, the ...