‘The limits of autonomy’ Updated 28 Sep, 2026 06:03am This is apropos a letter to the Editor titled ‘The limits of autonomy’ carried by the newspaper on Thursday, Friday,...
Sound governance: the key to growth Updated 22 Sep, 2026 06:46am EDITORIAL: The contrasting views of two key cabinet members at an event held recently have brought into focus a...
‘University Road project glaring failure of governance’ Published 21 Sep, 2026 06:45am KARACHI: The endless delays in completing work on University Road have exposed yet another glaring failure of...
Pakistan needs cities that grow, not provinces that govern Published 01 Sep, 2026 04:49am Pakistan’s administrative reform debate begins from the wrong premise. We keep asking how many provinces the country...
Bureaucratic bottlenecks Published 28 Aug, 2026 06:43am As a representative of the political tier of the Sindh government, I am acutely accustomed to standing in the line...
Why Pakistan keeps administering its energy crisis Published 24 Aug, 2026 03:45am Pakistan’s energy crisis has been analysed endlessly. Circular debt, capacity payments, distribution losses, gas...
New provinces, old governance? Updated 19 Aug, 2026 07:16am Pakistan’s debate over new provinces is ultimately a debate about governance, representation, and the distribution...
Change in institutional behaviour, political culture sought Published 14 Aug, 2026 07:38am ISLAMABAD: The country does not need structural changes; rather, it needs a change in institutional behaviour and...
Breaking up the gas utilities Published 08 Aug, 2026 04:54am Unbundling Gas Utilities could be repeating Wapda’s costly mistake if the policymakers do not comprehend and learn...
Naqvi advocates for creation of new provinces Updated 31 Jul, 2026 09:34am ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday said the existing governance system has collapsed, warning...
SOE reform: lessons from three decades Published 28 Jul, 2026 05:33am This is the eighth article in a ten-part series on Pakistan’s state-owned enterprises and privatisation. The...
Governance: the missing piece Updated 21 Jul, 2026 06:38am We as a Nation, per haps, rank better than many other developing countries to the extent that we think ahead and are...
Small businesses cannot outwork bad governance Updated 16 Jul, 2026 07:07am Pakistan’s economic debate remains built around a comforting succession of single-variable explanations. If credit...