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Foqia Sadiq Khan
Foqia Sadiq Khan

  • June 13, 2023

    Why the country fails

    It is apparent now that Project Imran Khan/PTI is being dismantled. Some...

  • June 02, 2023

    How to appoint a judge

    Once general elections are held in the country, Pakistan needs to focus...

  • May 13, 2023

    How to shore up the state

    Pakistan is a serious nation-state; despite the fact that it may function...

  • May 07, 2023

    The accountability question

    Lately, Pakistan’s superior judiciary has been in the limelight due to...

  • April 03, 2023

    Men as gatekeepers

    The concept of gender has been misunderstood around the world. It is...

  • March 22, 2023

    Continuity and change

    There are quite a few ways to look at the recent developments in the...

  • March 06, 2023

    The reforms industry

    In Pakistan since the coalition government has got some space, there is a...

  • January 11, 2023

    The technocratic takeover

    The whispers for the new technocratic setup have decreased a little but...

  • December 29, 2022

    Charter of economy

    Now that the political temperature has somewhat gone down in the country;...

  • December 14, 2022

    Dissecting corruption

    The world recently observed International Anti-Corruption Day . It is...

  • December 03, 2022

    War of narratives

    December is here, and is the season of stocktaking. Now that important...

  • November 20, 2022

    Productivity and distortions

    Generally academic debates remain limited in academic circles with their...

  • September 27, 2022

    Preparing for the floods

    Now that the very immediate rescue phase of super devastating floods in...

  • August 02, 2022

    Charter of growth

    Pakistan Institute of Development Economics , an Islamabad-based...

  • May 26, 2022

    Accountability of the educator

    Everyone who is even a little bit familiar with how governance works...

  • April 12, 2022

    What is our capacity scorecard?

    By the time you read this article, Shehbaz Sharif is most likely to have...

  • March 25, 2022

    Productivity paradox

    One of the basic problems with Pakistan’s economy is that it produces...

  • March 03, 2022

    Growth and poverty

    What is the relationship of economic growth with poverty reduction?...

  • February 20, 2022

    Politics of decentralisation

    A good thing about social science research is that one can have strong...

  • January 31, 2022

    Change in politics

    Pakistan-origin academics based abroad have carefully studied the...

  • January 10, 2022

    The autonomy mirage

    Pakistan is into its 23rd IMF programme, and the IMF has still not...

  • December 30, 2021

    Agenda for 2022

    We are closing on the current year and the new year is round the corner....

  • December 13, 2021

    Vaccine apartheid

    China is all set to give one billion vaccine doses to African countries...

  • December 04, 2021

    Educational outcomes

    More than half of the urban population lives in slums in Pakistan,...

  • November 14, 2021

    Women’s work

    It is abundantly clear, if one analyses the serious issues that Pakistan...

  • October 31, 2021

    Private education

    As progressives, we always believed that it is the state’s...

  • October 02, 2021

    A feminist manifesto

    In a country like Pakistan where progressive mobilisation is undermined...

  • September 19, 2021

    Local government capacity

    Ideally, real good social science research offers a good combination of...

  • September 03, 2021

    Profiting off war

    Newspaper commentary is full of coverage of how the US and its Nato...

  • August 21, 2021

    Unstable equilibrium

    How do opposing social and political forces deal with each other and...

  • August 03, 2021

    Rethinking agriculture

    The poverty of social science in Pakistan is reflected in the fact that...

  • July 09, 2021

    Prioritizing environmental protection

    In our obsession with political news, we often forget the more pressing...

  • June 17, 2021

    Improving the railways

    It has been a few days since 65 innocent citizens of this country lost...

  • May 31, 2021

    Inequality and growth

    Inequality is an impediment in national development. There is a need for...

  • May 13, 2021

    Human development

    There is now a well-established critique that GDP alone does not capture...

  • April 26, 2021

    Vaccination record

    Pakistan’s vaccination record is terrible compared to other countries...

  • April 14, 2021

    Urban housing for the poor

    Provision of urban housing for the poor is a complex phenomenon. Most of...

  • March 29, 2021

    Bazaar traders in urban Punjab

    The informal economy in Pakistan is one of most-understudied phenomena...

  • March 13, 2021

    Civil service reforms

    There is a need to undertake a deep analysis of the reform culture in...

  • February 26, 2021

    Science of cities

    One has always been in favour of good qualitative research as it captures...

  • February 15, 2021

    Decentralization and service delivery

    It is common for those who work for international financial institutions...

  • February 01, 2021

    Women, politics and opposition

    The conventional consensus is that Pakistan lags behind severely in...

  • January 24, 2021

    Party-voters linkage

    Politicians’ teams consisting of local level politicians and party...