By the close of this decade, artificial intelligence will have quietly rewritten the rules of nearly every industry on earth. The numbers are staggering: McKinsey estimates AI could contribute up to $13 trillion to global economic output by 2030. The World Economic Forum projects that automation will displace 85 million jobs by 2025 while simultaneously […]
Punjab Is Coming Alive
Across 52 cities of Punjab, the streets are finally beginning to tell a different story. Roads that once crumbled under heavy traffic are being rebuilt. Decades-old drainage lines are being replaced. Sewerage systems are being modernized, public spaces restored and neglected neighborhoods brought back into the development map. Under the Punjab Development Plan, the provincial […]
Punjab Cleans Up With AI
Punjab has embarked on one of the most ambitious technology-driven sanitation reforms in South Asia, deploying artificial intelligence to monitor over 40,000 vehicles and 176,000 sanitation workers under its flagship “Suthra Punjab” program. This initiative represents a fundamental shift in how a developing province thinks about public service delivery – not as a bureaucratic obligation […]
Rahmat Card — a promise to Punjab’s forgotten
In Pakistan, welfare has too often meant waiting. Waiting in long queues outside government offices, waiting for a name to appear on a list that someone else controls, waiting for dignity that never quite arrives. Against this backdrop, the launch of the Chief Minister Punjab Rahmat Card on May 1, 2026, deserves more than routine […]
A ‘labourer-first’ Punjab
As Punjab marks International Labor Day on May 1, nearly 14 million workers across the province have far more to celebrate than a symbolic public holiday. Under the Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Punjab has embarked upon one of its most ambitious and comprehensive labor reform agendas in decades, one that boldly redefines labor welfare […]
Big leap in Punjab healthcare
Punjab, the beating heart of Pakistan and home to over half its population, is writing a bold new chapter in public health-one that is already transforming millions of lives. Under Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, six flagship health initiatives have collectively extended services to more than 21 million patients in a remarkably short period, a […]
Wiring Punjab for tomorrow
Somewhere between the silicon corridors of San Francisco and the campuses of Shenzhen, a race is being run that most of the world has not been formally invited to join. Artificial intelligence is restructuring global markets, rewiring supply chains and concentrating wealth among nations that invested early in digital readiness. A 2025 IMF working paper […]
Dignity in Every Final Journey
When a family loses someone in a public hospital, grief has rarely been their only burden. For years, the task of transporting a body home fell to private ambulance operators who charged whatever they could – with no regulation, no oversight and no alternative. Bereaved families, often in shock, had little choice but to pay. […]
When people move, cities change
Punjab’s public transport network has crossed a historic milestone, with over 1.14 million passengers using free transit services in a single day – the highest daily ridership ever recorded in the province. The figure, logged on April 8, is the clearest signal yet that the Punjab government’s decision to eliminate fares across its metro, bus […]
Austerity with compassion
Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif has responded to the escalating global economic crisis with one of the most ambitious relief packages in the province’s history – a sweeping intervention that makes public transport free, subsidises farmers and motorcycle owners, and stabilises the logistics sector in a single coordinated move. The package reflects a governing […]