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The Complete Magazine For The Region

  • Cover Story
    • Rethinking Governance
    • The Provincial Veto
    • A Brief Interview with Dr Fouzia Hameed, MPA, Sindh Assembly
    • The Unity Myth
    • Sons of the Soil
    • A Brief Interview with Chaudhry Kabir Ahmad Khan, Secretary and Personal Staff Officer
    • Provinces Under Siege
    • 32 Units, Many Questions
  • Region
    • The Third Referendum
    • Taxation by Coercion
    • Reforming Pakistan Cricket
    • Ladli Behna
    • Dhaka’s Defence Dilemma
    • Limits of Reform
    • From Alternative to Reliability
    • Diplomacy Without Delivery?
  • International
    • War for War’s Sake
  • Feature
    • From Nepal, No Love
    • Beyond the ‘Miracle of Life’
    • Why Do We Stay?
    • Where Karachi Fell in Love
    • A Life of Healing
  • Reviews
    • Books
      • Game Plan: Pakistan Economic Gateway
      • Moin Akhtar – One Man Show
    • Web Series
      • His & Her
    • Film
      • Insidious: Out of the Further
  • More
    • Editor’s
      • Honour the MoU!
    • Readers’ Thoughts
    • Grapevine
    • Who Said That!
    • News Buzz
      • News Buzz October 2026
  • Web Desk
  • Blog
    • Submit Your Blog
    • Blog Archive
  • Archive
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Too Minor to Matter

April 30, 2026 admin 0 Comments

In Sri Lanka, the limited presence of minority women in electoral politics highlights a gap between formal democracy and substantive representation

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From Rap to Reform

April 30, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Nepalese Prime Minister Balen Shah is pursuing ambitious policies, although doubts about their feasibility persist

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The Ally That Wasn’t

April 30, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The recent downturn in Pakistan–Afghanistan relations reflects mounting frustration in Islamabad over cross-border attacks and a policy dilemma: whether to revert to a “carrot-and-stick” approach

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Walking a Tightrope

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Maintaining a delicate balance between Arabs and Persians, Pakistan continues to please all and sundry with a carefully calibrated language of neo-realism

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Day of Reckoning

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

A defeated, fragmented Iran would leave Israel as the Middle East’s unchallenged hegemon, controlling lands up to the Euphrates and arriving as a rogue power on Pakistan’s doorstep

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National Government?

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Is there any real basis for the rumors about a national government in Pakistan, or is this just another chapter in the country’s ongoing history of political speculation and elite bargaining?

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Modi’s Man

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The appointment of Nitin Nabin as the new national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) raises many questions about the BJP’s carefully choreographed succession, characterised by a cadre-based network and the ideological training of the RSS

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Brothers in Arms

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The deepening India-Israel relations will have significant implications for the region, and this nexus can be highly dangerous for Pakistan

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Mandate With Minefields

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

A sweeping election victory has brought the BNP back to power in Bangladesh. However, the path ahead may be far more complicated than the triumph itself.

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Nepal’s Gamble

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Nepal’s Generation Z has received its mandate—what’s next? Can the RSP deliver and transform this landslide victory into a lasting legacy?

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Settlement Under Siege

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The diplomatic rupture between Mauritius and the Maldives exemplifies a wider trend in global politics: when a dispute appears to be resolved, someone tends to shift the focus

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Prisoners of Conscience

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Behind Bhutan’s global pursuit of “Gross National Happiness” hides a grim truth: dozens of political prisoners are enduring decades of imprisonment

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Durand Fault Line

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

If aerial strikes fail to change Taliban policy regarding militant groups operating from Afghanistan, the ongoing Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict could further deepen hostility between the two states

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Dangling Republic

April 4, 2026April 7, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Pakistan’s economy seems to be suspended between stabilization and collapse, repeatedly negotiating external assistance while struggling to implement structural reforms at home

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MOTHER OF ALL DEALS

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union is much more than a commercial pact

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DÉJÀ VU

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Life goes on as Basant made us believe a few hundred kilometers away from the killing fields

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Principle vs. Pragmatism

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

Pakistan joins Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza, but at what cost to principle and domestic legitimacy?

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Amending the Amendment?

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The 18th Amendment failed to transfer power to the grassroots level by providing a full constitutional cover to the local government system

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Govern, Burn, Run!

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The Gul Plaza in Karachi itself was a governance failure long before it turned into ashes

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In the Line of Fire

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

For today’s journalists, resilience is not optional but essential.

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Economics of Employment

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

No country in history has created tens of millions of jobs without industrial deepening. Pakistan will not be an exception. However, is the state prepared for the employment shock ahead?

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Punching Above the Weight?

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

The UAE leadership has surreptitiously sought to undermine the seaports of Bandar Abbas in Iran and Gwadar Seaport in Pakistan

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Identity Hurts

March 2, 2026March 3, 2026 admin 0 Comments

One rarely hears an Indian Hindu, Christian, Sikh, or Jain asking what he must do to survive in India. Why then is the Muslim in the country still compelled to ask how he should conduct himself?

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