S Akbar Zaidi
The writer is a political economist and currently heads the IBA, Karachi, a public sector University. These views are his own and do not represent those of the institution.
Opinion
Pakistan Needs To Make Redistribution The Main Pillar Of Economic Policy
This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?" Read more about the series here. This short piece goes beyond the immediate multiple crises Pakistan faces on which others contributing to this series have offered thoughts and insight. Some...
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News
Waziristan Judge Reportedly Abducted...
Shakirullah Marwat, a district and sessions judge of South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtnkhwa, who had been kidnapped reportedly by the...
Features
جی۔ایم سید: سب سے...
(1904-1995) غلام مرتضی سید باالمعروف جی۔ ایم سید تحریک پاکستان کے اہم رہنما اور پھر قیام پاکستان کے بعد...
Features
In Karachi, Deadly Manholes...
For children, 14 August is all about flags on the rooftops, shops adorned with fairy lights, and waving the...
News
Minor Boy Raped At...
Balochistan police have recovered a 12-year-old boy from the house of Provincial Minister for Public Health and Engineering Noor...
News
Interpreter Of Arrested Chinese...
The interpreter of the arrested Chinese man accused of blasphemy in Kohistan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has backtracked from his...
News
Journalist Absar Alam Recounts...
Senior journalist Absar Alam has shared the ordeal he and his family went through when his 20-year-old son was...
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Extremism watch
Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...
Opinion
How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...
Commentary
PTI’s Ambiguous Rhetoric on Taliban Is Dangerous for Pakistan’s Counter-Extremism Efforts
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad -...
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How My Daughter’s Trial Exposes Pakistan’s Assault on Human Rights
My daughter, a human rights lawyer, and her husband are currently on trial in...