Stories by Umair Javed
Umair Javed teaches politics and sociology at Lums. Find him on Twitter @umairjav
If ethnic identities were perennial status groups, such assimilation would be considerably harder.
Updated 02 Mar, 2026 09:33am
The government’s fixation on net-metering is a red herring.
Updated 16 Feb, 2026 09:52am
The government’s fixation on net-metering is a red herring.
Updated 16 Feb, 2026 09:26am
Curious about what the adoption of AI will herald, many students are concerned with their own personal futures.
Updated 02 Feb, 2026 09:27am
There is no straightforward path to growth that doesn’t see us back to square one in a year or so.
Updated 19 Jan, 2026 09:20am
Inflation may have subsided since 2024 but dynamism in the economy is still missing.
Updated 05 Jan, 2026 09:44am
Ilyas Chattha’s new book shows how formal ideals of citizenship run afoul of political exigencies and nationalist ideologies
Updated 22 Dec, 2025 08:53am
A public festival such as Basant remains an important corrective, even if it only lasts a weekend.
Updated 08 Dec, 2025 09:06am
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
