The South Asian Idea
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 169 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Pakistan Ants
The world being completely commercialized, each city has become a franchise — Multan has its Sultans, Kolkata its Knight Riders, etc. Say Knight Riders and one knows the talk is about Kolkata. This association is now extending to countries...
The Peshawar Review – Issue 9, September 2026
The September issue of The Peshawar Review is out early.
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The September issue includes watercolours by Ali Sajid, a story by...
Decentralization: Is There a Way Forward?
The bottom line of this piece is that whatever is done in bad faith won’t work; it will only cause short-term chaos and inflict long-term pain. It doesn’t matter if the number of provinces is increased or decreased. Think back to the One Un...
Everyone is Writing So Much Better English
I know for a fact that till the 2000s, at least one English newspaper in Pakistan was routing reports from its mofussil correspondents through a freelance editor for a quick fix before publication. Now the same correspondents are writing as...
The Youth Dividend is Finally Here
For decades we have suffered inane hype about the youth dividend; inane because there was no bridge from one to the other — no thought, no investment to turn the youth into a dividend. It was supposed to be a miracle quite like the saviours...
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Dr Anjum Altaf earned his PhD from Stanford University. He was Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
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