Stories by Umair Javed
Umair Javed teaches politics and sociology at Lums. Find him on Twitter @umairjav
The current configuration of governance is not too dissimilar to what the British envisioned in the early 20th century.
Updated 24 Nov, 2025 09:43am
There has been a mild rethink of the usual religion-inflected, homogenising idea of what this country really is and what constitutes its past.
Updated 10 Nov, 2025 09:24am
The debate on what to do with the TLP and TTP is currently caught in a bizarre binary.
Updated 27 Oct, 2025 09:36am
Food insecurity remains rampant, with up to 30pc of households reporting an inability to afford three meals a day.
Published 13 Oct, 2025 07:09am
Merely proclaiming that devoting more time to the process of learning because of its abstract benefits isn’t necessarily a good pitch.
Updated 29 Sep, 2025 08:50am
To see conspiracy at play in every episode of mass political rebellion is poor analysis.
Updated 15 Sep, 2025 09:21am
The key debate is on the extent of middle-class complicity in encouraging destructive patterns of real estate development
Published 01 Sep, 2025 04:42am
Adventurism that puts the lives of people living along the borders at nuclear-tinged risk is still a distinct possibility.
Published 18 Aug, 2025 07:05am
The NFC award is not some great heist that the provinces performed on an unsuspecting centre.
Updated 04 Aug, 2025 09:53am
It is during the monsoon months that the existential impact of real estate fever becomes truly apparent.
Updated 21 Jul, 2025 09:11am
Society shows no broad-based winners in the status quo. Instead, any winners here are selective.
Updated 05 Jul, 2025 09:38am
Policymakers should focus on designing reforms that address public concerns about fairness and government accountability.
Published 23 Jun, 2025 08:43am
Salaried earners are treated as a captive source of additional revenue by the government.
Published 16 Jun, 2025 06:28am
The bonanza of security for some, opens up a world of insecurity for most others.
Updated 26 May, 2025 10:10am
Political legitimacy in India is generated not through tangible material gain but through right-wing communalism, nationalism, and the selling of — unattainable — dreams.
Updated 12 May, 2025 09:02am
The profile most likely to receive zakat according to the conjoint experiment embedded in the survey
was widowed women.
Published 28 Apr, 2025 06:43am
The simple fact is that the rhetoric of bringing back good jobs for American workers is eyewash.
Published 14 Apr, 2025 05:53am
This youth bulge is frequently talked about, but its scale and possible impact remains under-analysed.
Updated 31 Mar, 2025 09:07am
The conversation on Balochistan would be better served by a frank discussion of what is likely to work.
Published 17 Mar, 2025 06:09am
The absence of an economic vision linked to the people is a real gap in public discourse.
Published 03 Mar, 2025 06:06am
