To understand why the last week has been such a bad one for Tabish Hashmi’s credibility, it helps to understand why anyone believed him in the first place. He is not a career broadcaster who drifted into hosting because a network needed a face. He built an audience from nothing, on the strength of being...
There is a ritual most young people in Karachi perform without thinking about it anymore. A text sent the moment you walk through your own front door.
A detailed opinion piece examining the timeline behind Azad Kashmir's JAAC ban, internet blackout and the July 27 Rawalakot killings.
The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board has approved the disbursement of the latest tranche under Pakistan’s 37-month Extended Fund Facility, releasing funds after concluding a review mission that assessed the country’s progress on fiscal, energy and tax reform benchmarks. The approval brings total disbursements under the programme to well over half of its total value...
The numbers behind Pakistan’s basic necessities crisis are not hidden, they are published, repeatedly, by the same institutions the government cites when it wants to talk about macroeconomic stability. Taken together, they make the AI data centre pitch look less like ambition and more like a country skipping several chapters of its own story. Start...
Standing in front of the fridge at midnight, too tired to choose between leftover daal and nothing at all,
A Senate committee sits down, does the arithmetic, and arrives at a number most governments would treat as urgent: four to five trillion rupees a year, sitting unclaimed, simply because the federal government still runs ministries the Constitution told it to hand over in 2010. That is not a rounding error. It is close to...
Pakistan has strong laws on paper protecting women, from workplace harassment legislation to honour killing reforms. Yet enforcement gaps, low female workforce participation, and rural education drop-offs mean progress rarely reaches daily life. Areeba Ahmed examines why.
Since the war began on 28 February with the joint American and Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Pakistan’s position has not moved an inch on paper. The Foreign Office has condemned the strikes on Iran. It has condemned Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the Gulf states. It has repeated, briefing after briefing, that there...