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Tourism in Pakistan: The Invisible Hand Behind Your Next Booking
by Noor Elahi
Tourism in Pakistan is not being driven by roads and resorts alone. Increasingly, it is run through the digital algorithms of booking platforms as they become the industry’s front doors, connecting v…
Balochistan’s Information Black Hole
The War Pakistan Is Not Allowed to See
This article aims to document independent press reporting on provincial events that remain largely unknown to the Pakistani public and mainstream news media as well as investigative journalists.brief…
PIA’s Sale and the Debt Left Behind
How Pakistan turned a national carrier into a test of privatisation, public liability, and concentrated power
PIA is part of a larger shift in how Pakistan is handling public assets under the current government. The stated aim is to reduce...
The Weather Pattern Over Rawalpindi
There is a quiet that settles over Islamabad when the men who have long spoken in the voice of the state begin to discover that their voice no longer carries as far as it once did.
There is a quiet that settles over Islamabad when the men...
Pakistan Monthly Roundup: June 2026
Kashmir rose, the budget tightened, and Pakistan’s unresolved crises
On June 20, Fazian Rehman stood outside the third closed petrol station he had visited in Muzaffarabad, holding an empty bottle. His motorcycle had run out of fuel while...
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