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Pakistanis Want a New Deal; The Deep State Wants More Control
For the last 77 years the Pakistani military – intelligence establishment has retained its control, whether through direct rule or indirect rule. They have...
Pakistan’s 24th IMF Loan Will Not Resolve Its Structural Economic Crisis
The government of Pakistan must be breathing a sigh of relief that the IMF has approved a $7 billion bailout program for 37 months....
Pakistan’s Abysmal Investment in the Future of Its Children
The first role of any government is to take care of its citizens and invest in human capital. Unfortunately, that has never been the...
To Be Taken Seriously on TTP, Pakistan Needs to Crackdown on All Jihadi Groups
Pakistan faces a multiplicity of crisis including a security crisis at the heart of which is the Pakistani state’s decades long policy of using...
Pakistan Faces A Chikungunya Epidemic, Needs a Drastic Solution
The first priority of any state is to protect its citizens, from foreign and domestic threats. Basic healthcare is one of the provisions that...
Pakistan’s Afghanistan Policy Remains on a Downward Trajectory
Every country’s most important relations are with its immediate neighbors. Pakistan is one of those few countries that has problematic ties with both its...
Pakistani State Playing with Fire, Will Lead down an Abyss
Pakistan has often lurched from crisis to crisis over the last 77 years, but over the last two years polarization has deepened in the...
Without Respect for Democratic Norms, Pakistan Will Lurch from Crisis to Crisis
Democracy rests on respect for dissent and difference of opinion. When institutions of state and the greater public do not have any respect for...
Pakistan’s Lack of a Social Contract is Fragmenting the Country
Democracy and the idea of citizenship is based upon a social contract between the state and the citizens. Pakistan has never had a social...
Pakistan’s Impending AIDS/ HIV Epidemic
Pakistan is no country for the young, the old, or the sick. The country’s rickety health infrastructure, ignorance among health professionals and successive governments...
Without Structural Reforms, Pakistan’s Economic Crisis will continue
Pakistan’s economic crisis continues unabated and unfortunately, instead of using this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn Pakistan’s economy around, the powers that be continue with...
Balochistan Continues to Bleed
77 years after independence, Pakistan has yet to become the country of its imagining. The Pakistani state continues to rule with an iron fist...
Pakistan’s 24 IMF Loan Faces Challenges
Positive sentiments expressed by the government about the next bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) notwithstanding, the facts give a different story.
According...
Pakistan’s Poor Record at Coexistence: Those Seeking Purity Can’t Tolerate Others
Pakistan was founded as a home for the subcontinent’s Muslims but 77 years after independence it has become unsafe for almost every minority and...
Baloch Grievances Boiling Over into Wider Rebellion
77 years after Independence, Pakistan has yet to become a country that treats all its minorities and its sub-nationalities as equals. The recent attacks...
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