Violent assertion
What are the factors behind this violent assertion, and what aspects of the current political dispensation continue to enable it?
Umair Javed
Political roots of a city
Separate and distinct mandates do not change the underlying ecological reality of a given space.
Contradictory urbanisation
Citizen preferences must be understood not just from the lens of infrastructure planning but also from a cultural...
Future of devolution politics
As a singular entity, the Pakistani state faces far fewer domestic pressures than in the past.
A ban on good sense
Who bears the cost of these controls? Obviously not the generation that is making these decisions.
Unmet aspirations
What do the vast majority of young citizens, those aged between 18 and 30 in particular, want in their lives?
Urban welfare in Pakistan
Many cities across the world owe their developmental legacies to the role their residents played, and were allowed to
Inequality and the pandemic
Covid-19, contrary to being some great leveller, actually magnifies some distinctions.
Responsibility and norms
When observers posit that the Pakistani population is not equipped to follow SOPs, what are they alluding to?
Lessons from Kerala
Kerala’s investments in a large public health system have paid obvious dividends.
Tackling the crisis
This crisis has triggered an upsurge in intellectual work from academia, civil society, and professionals from ....
Welfare considerations
Barring some belated decision-making by the centre, Pakistan’s response has generally been efficient.
Two glaring deficits
There is no large-scale welfare mechanism that can reach adversely impacted populations.
Keyboard warriors
Associational politics and citizens taking responsibilities for the causes they care about is what sustains democracy.
Vocation and education
To succeed as a consuming citizen, one has to rethink the meaning of education.
Violence as justice
Public opinion polling from the Gilani Research Foundation back in 2016 found overwhelming ...
The cost of stability
Party leaders need elected politicians to provide them with a veneer of legitimacy and to form a government.
Diarchy revisited
Most people underestimate just how entrenched a particular system or configuration of elite power is in Pakistan’s
Work and exploitation
As things stand, 73pc of all labour in urban areas, approximately 11.4m individuals, are associated with informal work.
‘Irrational’ violence
What are the cultural and social drivers of such behaviour?