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  • July 11, 2021

    The electoral gender gap

    Gender gap indicators are useful in quantifying the level of exclusion...

  • May 08, 2020

    Corona testing priorities

    Covid-19 has generated many urban myths. One very apt one is about the...

  • September 12, 2019

    Financial inclusion in Pakistan

    One of the most common mismatches in life is that between income and...

  • April 12, 2018

    Deflections galore

    Pakistan’s media seems to have a weird relationship with the Pashtun...

  • April 07, 2018

    Malala and APS

    Malala came back, and so did her haters. Scanning through any Facebook...

  • February 23, 2018

    The Pashtun long march

    This year will mark the 71st year of Pakistan’s independence. It would...

  • November 22, 2017

    Looking at 2018

    In the aftermath of the by-elections of NA-4 in Peshawar, many have...

  • November 04, 2016

    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the PTI

    The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa surprised many when he declared...

  • October 18, 2016

    ‘Foul’ Punjabi

    Recently a school notice has been making the rounds on social media. In...

  • October 16, 2016

    Digitising payments

    The relationship between people and government is a ubiquitous one. Be it...

  • December 13, 2015

    Pakistan’s debt to Ahmed Rabbani

    On December 1, 2015, thirteen years too late, the US finally admitted...

  • November 14, 2015

    Let’s repeat history

    Thirty years ago, I lost my beloved mother in the fight against cancer. The mere thought of the disease is enough to scare the very soul out of me. It was an unbearable grief. Unfortunately, at that...

  • November 13, 2015

    Let’s repeat history

    Thirty years ago, I lost my beloved mother in the fight against cancer. The mere thought of the disease is enough to scare the very soul out of me. It was an unbearable grief. Unfortunately, at that...

  • August 23, 2015

    The silence in Kasur: redefining shame

    If there is one good thing that came out of the horrors of Kasur, it is that it has encouraged victims in other parts of the country to speak up; the family of a victim in Multan was the first to...

  • May 24, 2015

    Ibn Khaldun and today’s Pakistan

    Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqaddimah is often cited as the first work of historiography and the forerunner to the social sciences. However, he is best known for his theory of cyclical patterns of power...

  • May 04, 2015

    Patriotic provincialism

    As the PML-N celebrates Pakistan’s reaffirmed ‘iron friendship’ with China, it is also warning about the potential rusting of this friendship thanks to some nagging entities of the provincial...