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  When Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal proposed dividing Pakistan into 12 to 15 smaller administrative units—or, alternatively, setting up 160 empowered district governments—he reignited a…

  MILLIONS across Pakistan struggle with hunger, malnutrition, and disease. Nearly 26 million people face food insecurity, with 2.14 million children suffering from acute malnutrition.…

  WHEN Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi declared that Pakistan’s system has collapsed, he offered more than a diagnosis. A senior official responsible for the state’s…

  IN the sweltering heat of July 2026, as baton-wielding police clash with determined students at Jantar Mantar, India confronts a reckoning. What began as…

  DURING the 2025 monsoon, surplus Sutlej floodwaters were diverted from Islam Headworks into the abandoned Old Mailsi Canal—not to irrigate fields, but to recharge…

  INDIA’S suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty has reignited debate over one of South Asia’s most important river systems. Much of the discussion has…

  SOUTH Asia is a cradle of ancient civilizations, a land where cultures, languages and histories have interwoven for millennia. Yet beneath this richness lies…

PAKISTAN’S water story has long been written on the surface—on rivers that rise beyond its borders, on flows shaped by distant mountains and on treaties…

IN April 2025, India placed the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance following an attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir. Hydrological…

A section of academia and administration at Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, increasingly advances a troubling yet widely held perception: that diversity, when expressed through organised…