There is a peculiar arithmetic to governance in contemporary Pakistan, one that defies every textbook on public administration and reduces the grand edifice of the state to a crude calculus of views, shares, and retweets.

One question – just one – posed by a Norwegian journalist to India’s visiting prime minister has triggered a political and media meltdown that says far more about the state of Indian democracy than any official government statement ever could.

“I’m not a toy … I don’t want to be married to someone forcibly.

AS Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif travels to Beijing this week to mark 75 years of Pakistan-China relations, the centrepiece of his agenda will be CPEC 2.0. The 14th Joint Cooperation Commit­tee (JCC) meeting in September 2025 formally launched pha…

THE conversation about reform in Pakistan is dead. It has been for years. In Islamabad, the government is celebrating its diplomatic success in the war. These achievements are real and deserve recognition. Specifically, Pakistan has successfully b…

PAKISTAN’S external sector has once again exposed the economy’s structural weaknesses that bilateral debt rollovers and short-term stabilisation measures had helped conceal. The sharp 31pc decline in FDI in the first 10 months of FY26 , coupled wi…

UNWISE protest calls from Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) seem practical demonstration of a saying of American comedian Groucho Marx…

US Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday that the United States and Iran have made a lot of progress…