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Mosharraf ZaidiThe News International |
One of the frameworks that has been most influential in shaping my understanding of governance has been the Capability, Accountability and...
As Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Furhan A.F. Al Furhan Al Saud concludes his visit to Pakistan, he wraps up the seventh round of high-level...
On April 9, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated a Daanish School campus in Islamabad. The Daanish Schools effort is anchored in a powerful...
A lot has been written recently about the need to revisit and reduce the share of the provinces in the 7th National Finance Commission Award, but...
The corrosion of a republic isn’t an event. It is a process. It isn’t a partisan affair. It is wholesale. It is never limited or contained. It is...
What did Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar mean when, during a press conference in London, he clearly listed Pakistan’s immediate neighbouring countries as...
People tend to cling to ideas formed previously; they tend to work better within already established networks; and they tend to be more comfortable...
Asking the wrong question is one of the most prominent qualities of the Pakistani public discourse. ‘Who should be the finance minister?’ is the...
There is a profound disquiet about the state of the country across all social, economic and political classes. People are worried about how badly the...
If you don’t understand something you cannot change it. Pakistanis are constantly bombarded with news that prompts a sense of utter helplessness and...
The critical question, at least in Rawalpindi, isn’t who will be prime minister or even whether the PTI will be in government or not. These are both...
The people of Pakistan spoke clearly on February 8. Their favourite political party is the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Their favourite leader, even...
Throughout my life, I have sought to avoid dignifying the indefensible. Attacks on the families of public figures are broadly in this domain –...
The seventh annual edition of the ThinkFest literary event was held in Lahore this past weekend. Dr Yaqoob Bangash – whose day job as a historian...
Jinnah’s Pakistan died last week. His name was Sartaj Aziz. Rather than using my own words to capture just how central a figure Sartaj Aziz was to...
Just another day in Indian-Occupied Kashmir’s Poonch district on December 22. Mohammad Showkat, age 22, Safeer Hussain age 45, and Shabir Ahmad age...
The rapid changes taking place around the world are not superficial. These are changes that are altering how the world works. We heard the ‘we need...
Venal and rent-seeking elites are a global phenomenon, but most countries don’t have to deal with the lack of imagination and basic incompetence...
The logic for a public-sector vehicle that does what the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) is supposed to do is solid. Pakistan’s...
The February 8, 2024, general election represents an opportunity for the country’s military and civilian leaders to change course and set Pakistanis...
In December 1987 after two decades of humiliation, oppression, and continued life under occupation, Palestinians began a series of protests that ended...
The crisis in the Middle East is going to further expose the helpless, rudderless, and purposeless nature of Pakistani leadership. Today’s Pakistani...
For many in Israel, it has been raining down rockets and missiles in Sderot for years now. The large-scale Hamas invasion on Saturday, October 7,...
Pakistan’s most important decision-makers are now facing a dire and extreme choice. They can either choose to inflict some long overdue pain on...
Pakistan has witnessed a steep decline over the last two years, maybe the steepest in its post-partition (1971) history. If there is one overarching...
The ascension of Justice Qazi Faez Isa to the office of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan is no ordinary moment in Pakistani judicial and...