Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

The price of learning

The classroom was supposed to lift our children up, now it’s dragging their parents down. In Pakistan, education has transformed from a stepping-stone to progress…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Military and the people

  PAKISTAN’S politics has long been closely linked with its military, shaped by decades of turbulent history. Since its creation in 1947, the country has…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Pakistan’s struggle for a cashless future

THE government’s ambition to turn Pakistan into a cashless economy is an idea both necessary and inspiring. In a world steadily moving towards digital transactions,…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Power, patronage and the future of KP

FOR over a decade, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has been under PTI rule, not because of genuine public mandate, but because of engineered continuity. Promises of ‘tabdeeli’ have…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Taliban’s defiance of Pakhtunwali

  Pakhtunwali, the ancient moral code of the Pashtuns, is often described as a living constitution that predates modern states, political ideologies and even formal…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Pakistan’s quiet water emergency

Pakistan faces a looming water crisis as inefficient use and climate change threaten survival and growth   PREVENTABLE crises strike the hardest because they come…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Pakistan’s quiet water emergency Pakistan faces a looming water crisis as inefficient use and climate change threaten survival and growth

PREVENTABLE crises strike the hardest because they come with fair warning. Pakistan’s looming water emergency is one of them, long predicted, widely discussed and yet…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

Pakistan’s jobless generation

IN the complex arena of global affairs, a nation’s true legacy is measured not just by its achievements on the world stage, but by how…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

The curse of our national ingratitude

THE story of human civilization is, in essence, the story of roads. Wherever roads were built, horizons widened, trade flowed, ideas travelled and cultures evolved.…

Dr Zafar Khan Safdar

The courage to begin anew

THE world is changing faster than we can comprehend, yet our political imagination remains trapped in the ruins of obsolete narratives. Nations that adapt survive;…

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