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Pakistan’s Independence Will Begin When Its Masters Disappear
Seventy-nine years after independence, Pakistan’s real struggle is against the modern slavery built into the way we govern, work and treat one another.
Today marks seventy-nine years since Pakistan became independent, and you may raise the...
Pakistan Has Never Been Governed for Pakistanis
The British left in 1947, but the machinery they built to control the population survived inside a military state that protects its rulers and abandons the public.
Pakistan wakes each morning to a state that knows exactly where its citizen...
Pakistan Monthly Roundup
July 2026
July 2026 was the deadliest month of the year in Pakistan, and the state supplied most of both columns of the ledger. The Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies counted 606 people killed nationwide during the month,...
Sohail Sakhi Wanted Pakistanis to Own Their Mountains
The mountaineer from Hunza climbed K2 without bottled oxygen, trained children and built a local expedition company before an avalanche killed him on Broad Peak.
On August 15, 2020, Sohail Sakhi stood alone at Darkot Pass, 4,703 meters abo...
What Pakistan Is For
On the military, the political elite, and a state that has become an instrument of its owners.
I. The police post that was overrun in Ziarat on the night of July 6 was guarding a dam. Not a garrison, not a cantonment, not a nuclear facilit...
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