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The Silent Cost Of Children Missing School

Pakistan, Sept. 20 -- When a child misses school, the loss is often regarded as missed education. However, the real damage extends far beyond the individual classroom. Education is the primary engine ... Read More


The Water We Call Waste Is Keeping The Delta Alive

Pakistan, Sept. 20 -- Water reaching the Arabian Sea is called waste. That sentence has been emptying the Indus Delta for seventy years. "We can understand the pain of downstream people and the river ... Read More


Local Self-Government And Provincial Autonomy: Rethinking Article 140-A In Pakistan

Pakistan, Sept. 19 -- Following the controversial proposal to create new provinces, debate over a new local government system has now emerged in an increasingly contentious manner. Planning Minister A... Read More


Part IV: The Politics Of Provincialism - The Democratic Soul Of Pakistan And Provincial Autonomy In 1970s

Pakistan, Sept. 19 -- Pakistan emerged from the turmoil and trauma at the turn of the 1970s, as major political forces including nationalists such as Wali Khan and Ajmal Khattak from NWFP, Ghaus Bux B... Read More


Paper Prison: The Weight Of A Pakistani Passport

Pakistan, Sept. 18 -- For the past few years, I have been traveling frequently, sharing a deep love for travel with my father, who especially enjoys planning trips and navigating the visa process alon... Read More


The Family Forest: Turning Trees Into Pakistan's Green Savings Bank

Pakistan, Sept. 18 -- In the fourteenth century, the traveler Ibn Battuta passed along the Malabar coast of India. In his travelogue, as rendered in Urdu by Muhammad Hussain on page 321, he recorded a... Read More


The One-Unit Experiment: How Pakistan's Federal Spirit Was Undermined

Pakistan, Sept. 17 -- Pakistan has been facing one crisis after the other since its birth. It lost its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah within months; its first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assas... Read More


The Invisible Hands Behind Pakistan's Fishing Industry

Pakistan, Sept. 17 -- Along Pakistan's sprawling 1,050-kilometre coastline, the quiet rhythm of the fishing industry depends on a foundation of labour that rarely receives recognition. While men steer... Read More


Meet The Masked Master Of Japanese Horror

Pakistan, Sept. 16 -- Strange Pictures is an international bestselling mystery-horror novel written by the masked Japanese YouTuber and author Uketsu. Uketsu specialises in horror and mystery and has ... Read More


Leaving YouTube Behind: Inside ARY Digital's High-Stakes Streaming Bet

Pakistan, Sept. 16 -- Five months ago, I traced how Pakistani television built a global audience without Netflix's help: hundreds of millions of YouTube views, sustained almost entirely outside any pl... Read More