Imtiaz Gul’s recent column titled ‘Planning Commission or Graveyard of Fantasies’ is a thought-provoking read — sharp, eloquent, but ultimately a portrait painted without perspective. It presents Pakistan’s planning journey as a string of “dreams that died”, blaming Vision 2025 and now Uraan Pakistan 2035 for our industrial and economic woes. It’s a familiar argument — rhetorically […]
The morning was lit up with the news that Pakistan carried out air strikes on targets in Afghanistan. The whole afternoon the news was not confirmed by official sources in Pakistan until the DG ISPR conducted a press conference in the evening. To the explicit question to confirm the validity or otherwise of this claim, […]
The new World Bank report Reclaiming Momentum Towards Prosperity is a brutal reminder that Pakistan’s growth and development model has chewed through two decades of progress and spat out the poor. Poverty, once on a downward trajectory, is climbing again — and the climb is steep. Let’s call the numbers out for what they really are. […]
The federal government’s decision to significantly reduce the health ministry’s budget represents a serious step backward, threatening the already subpar quality of public health facilities and moving the country further away from the UN Sustainable Development Goal of universal health coverage by 2030. The budget for this year has been slashed by one-third, down from […]
As the guns in Gaza finally fall silent, the world witnesses a long-awaited breakthrough. Through the efforts of the United States, Egypt and Qatar, a ceasefire has taken hold – one that carries the promise of lasting peace. Remarkably, the Muslim bloc and other major powers have not raised objections to the terms of this […]