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The Soda Ash Plant
Pakistan's most powerful unaccountable body just handed a water-scarce district's public resources to one of the country's wealthiest conglomerates.
Lucky Core Industries exports soda ash to the UAE, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Banglad...
Pakistan's University Professors: No Raise in Five Years, No Pension, No Answer
The researchers who produce over 75 percent of Pakistan's academic output are earning the same salary they earned in 2021. Their BPS colleagues received 71 percent more in the same period.
In the HEC’s standard Deed of Agreement for postdo...
Two Men, One Company, Thirteen Thousand Shareholders Left Holding the Wreckage
Story of TRG Pakistan Limited
The cleanest way to understand what happened at TRG Pakistan Limited is to track two parallel operations that were running simultaneously and in direct opposition, each one funded by money that did n…
Pakistan’s Sovereign Debt Machine, the Fees It Doesn’t Disclose, and Why the Government Talked About Everything Except the Questions
Every government Pakistan has had since 1958 has borrowed money and called it a victory.
Every government Pakistan has had since 1958 has borrowed money and called it a victory. The denominations change. The performance does not. A syndica...
The Sanjrani Franchise
How one family from Naukundi claimed Balochistan's mines, its Senate chair, and its chief ministers and why no one stopped them
On a Monday evening in February 2025, a convoy of 30 vehicles carrying blister copper from the Saindak project...
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