The writer is an Islamabad-based journalist, researcher and media trainer. A former Daniel Pearl/AFPP fellow, he shared in The LA Times’ 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. He tweets @AounSahi
The two-day Balochistan Development Forum held in Islamabad last month attempted to create political consensus on the development agenda for the...
Lack of political ownership and influence of big corporate concerns have rendered the Competition Commission of Pakistan as a useless organisation
Are the relations between the military establishment and religious parties severed for good?
"If the market was left to its own devices, many sugar mills would die their natural death."
One of the major reasons of the ongoing sugarcane crisis is due to massive numbers of sugar mills
Maulana Abdul Aziz launches his counter-operation from the pulpit
It is important to look at the fate of Nacta and the first National Internal Security Policy before one starts taking the prime minister’s recent...
General Hameed Gul talks about various aspects of Pakistan’s Afghan policy
Fall in price by Rs1,000 per maund means potential loss of Rs 30,000 per acre to cultivators of basmati rice
Into its sixth year now, BISP has done some wonderful things for the women in this country as well as collected some useful statistical data on...
A loudspeaker is the most unregulated instrument and clerics have monopoly over this very important propaganda tool
Politico-religious parties form a united group with some overt and covert political aims
The few laws on bonded labour that exist remain to be implemented
Regulatory authorities are geared toward ensuring efficiency and transparency of brick kilns but fail to address human rights concerns
Punjabi settlers have faced mass migrations and killings in Balochistan in the last ten years. Here’s the context to the recent murder of eight...
Our justice system needs to be overhauled for any major change to happen with regards to blasphemy cases
The LoC and working boundary skirmishes are closely tied in with the broader Indo-Pakistan relations
Twenty years after the programme was first started and two years after the Supreme Court ordered it, the four provincial governments have finally...
Saira Afzal Tarar, state minister for National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination, talks about polio eradication campaigns, their...
Victims of the All Saints Church in Peshawar talk of killings, discrimination and despair
