The crisis has exposed a wider struggle over the future of the Middle East: between a vision built on economic transformation and connectivity, and a cycle of ...

Hindukush is one of the most dynamic regions on Earth, where glaciers, snow, weather, geology and rivers are constantly in motion. Such ...

The petroleum levy did not fall from the sky; it is a fiscal patch stretched over a hole created by Pakistan’s own energy and planning decisions ...

Survivors are not diplomats. They do not owe us polished disclosures, measured language or emotional comfort. Delay is not evidence against a wound; it can be ...

Who Knows the Bounds of Desire” transforms Lahore into both Wonderland and Wasteland—a city rich in cultural memory yet increasingly poisoned, commodified and ...

For a Pakistani traveller, booking a flight is merely an afterthought compared to the intense scrutiny and paperwork required ...

Known professionally as Sher Kumbher, PUMPA’s CEO combines distribution experience, music-fraud research and global engagement to support artists’ rights and ...

Climate resilience will depend not only on infrastructure and finance, but on whether Pakistan’s governance system has the capacity to use both effectively ...

Broad political agreement should precede the constitutional process; there is no workable route that bypasses Sindh’s elected representatives.

We were in a café in Gulberg, Lahore, with exposed brick and a menu that traced its coffee to a farm in Yirgacheffe. Call the two men Hamza and Ali. The names are invented; the arguments are not. They ...

Stability cannot be measured merely by the absence of protest, the silencing of critics or the appearance of political consensus.

Punjab’s emerging urban economy requires a different approach to development: cities must be planned not merely as expanding settlements, but as interconnected ...