In the face of a worsening energy crisis, Pakistan’s leadership has unveiled a familiar menu of austerity measures (a four-day workweek, temporary school closures, rotational work-from-home arrangements, a 50pc cut in fuel allowances for departments, and a reduction in official vehicles on the road). These steps may sound decisive, but they do little to address […]
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From Rhetoric to Reform: Securing Pakistan’s Children
A nation’s moral standing is measured by how effectively it safeguards its children. In Pakistan, the persistent rise in child abuse cases exposes not only individual criminal acts but also serious structural failures in governance, law enforcement, and social protection systems. Public outrage follows every horrific incident, yet this outrage rarely translates into durable policy […]
Pakistan’s Reform Agenda
For too long, Pakistan’s policy debate was a carousel of announcements that vanished into noise. The Pakistan Reforms Report 2026 changes that: for the first time, there is a systematic account of more than 600 governance reforms across 135 federal institutions. Rather than applause for volume alone, this documentation marks a turn from crisis management […]
Police Reform in Pakistan
In January 2019, on a Pakistani highway near Sahiwal, three children watched their parents and sister die at the hands of the state. The police officers who pulled the trigger believed they were stopping criminals. They were wrong. The parents were innocent, the identification mistaken, the encounter irreversible. What those children witnessed was not merely […]
Japan: G20 summit to debate trade including WTO reform
Substantial discussions on trade, including reform of the World Trade Organization, will likely take place at a summit of Group of 20 major economies next week in Osaka, a senior Japanese finance ministry official said on Wednesday. Japan, which chairs this year’s G20 gatherings, will take a neutral stance in the US-China trade row and […]
CDWP clears Rs 46b project for Pak-Tajikistan energy transmission
Central Development Working Party (CDWP), on Monday, accorded approval to a project worth Rs 552.708 million and recommended three projects worth Rs 209.5 billion to ECNEC for endorsement. CDWP had met in a meeting chaired by Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Reform, Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar. Planning Secretary, Zafar Hasan, as well as senior officials […]
Plans to reform European football run into opposition
Plans to reform and possible expand European club competition ran into opposition on Friday as the continent’s leagues declared they were ‘united’ in their determination to protect domestic football. The European Leagues umbrella group said it would take a more active role in influencing public opinion and shaping the future of football on the continent […]