From honour killings and acid attacks to cyber-enabled harassment and institutional failures, violence against women continues to expose the gap between legal reform and...
The Budget, the Citizen and the Future of the State
Pakistan’s Federal Budget 2026–27 represents more than a fiscal statement; it is a structured reflection...
The World Bank has begun classifying Pakistan within a newly expanded regional framework: MENAAP, Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Introduced in the...
The Hidden Health Crisis of Microplastics in the Human Body
In the past decade, microplastics have shifted from being an environmental concern to an urgent...
Dying or Just Being Redefined?
UN, IMF, WTO under strain, what replaces them?
The international order built after 1945 was premised on a simple but ambitious...
Designing climate finance for long-term stability, not short-term accounting.
Not long ago, climate policy discourse operated on a deceptively straightforward premise that rapid carbon reduction...
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic promise. It is already reshaping how economies function, how states govern, and how societies distribute power. From...
Standing before a hall of young graduates, the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called it “a historic day in Pakistan’s journey of youth empowerment”, as...