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Sunday March 26, 2023
Aasiya Riaz
Aasiya Riaz

  • March 12, 2023

    Principled politics, anyone?

    When on May 14, 2006 – nearly 17 years ago – the Charter of Democracy was signed between Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Mr Muhammad Nawaz Sharif,...

  • February 20, 2023

    Our Broken Heart Syndrome

    Science has long discovered that heart break is not just emotional trauma. It has severe physiological manifestations also. This physiological...

  • February 12, 2023

    A country in mayhem

    Mayhem describes what Pakistan is facing on so many fronts. There is not even a single respite in sight. Take the economy, the worst mayhem in which...

  • February 06, 2023

    State of democracy

    A major global pronouncement on the annual global state of democracy is out. The verdict: democracy is in doldrums globally and 2022 was a...

  • January 29, 2023

    Survival of the republic

    Even though ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’ was this year’s theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, there is little...

  • January 22, 2023

    Amendments for devolution

    As we celebrate the fact that the second phase of local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad divisions took place, let us pause to remind...

  • January 15, 2023

    The fault is not in our stars…

    Even though the ECP verdict on the prohibited funding case against the PTI in August 2022 took a long time coming, Pakistan has rarely seen sharper...

  • January 08, 2023

    It’s the economy, stupid

    In the recession-hit United States in the 1990s under US president George H W Bush, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ was the catchphrase that...

  • January 01, 2023

    Democracy in 2022

    As the world gears up to celebrate another trip around the sun, there is this innate human urge to review what we experienced in the year concluded....

  • December 26, 2022

    Why are the young leaving?

    In a recent public opinion survey to gauge whether Pakistanis wish to stay in Pakistan or leave the country, the Pakistan Institute of Development...