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Anti-reform? (opens the original)
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On structural reform, Pakistan’s constitution is practically anti-reform. Every reform creates gainers and losers. Creating new provinces or administrative units would be no different: some would gain power, representation, and better access to government; others would lose territory, authority, budgets and patronage. In the case of new units, clear gainers would be citizens, cities, districts, local political leadership and service delivery systems. Clear losers would be provincial party machin
Sindh will remain Sindh (opens the original)
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Maybe I am wrong but this is how I see it: Sindh will remain Sindh. Punjab will remain Punjab. Balochistan will remain Balochistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will remain Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Geography does not change. Culture does not change. Language does not change. History does not change. Maybe I am wrong, but I was always taught that administrative reform is not about identity; it never was. Isn’t administrative reform about governance? Maybe I am wrong, but aren’t those two different things? Is th
Pakistan's new question (opens the original)
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For the first time in seventy-eight years, the question being asked is: how should Pakistan be governed? For the past seventy-eight years, the question has been: who should govern Pakistan? For the past seventy-eight years, the question has been: who will drive the Pakistani car? Ayub asked it. Yahya asked it. Zia asked it. Musharraf asked it. Every answer changed the driver of the Pakistani car. We tried a technocrat. We tried a populist. We tried a dynasty – twice. We tried a cricketer. Four t
Cost of democracy (opens the original)
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In 2023-24, the Senate of Pakistan received a budgetary allocation of Rs5.057 billion. By 2026-27, the allocation had risen to Rs9.670 billion – an increase of 91.2% across four budgets, equivalent to an annualised growth rate of 24.1%. That works out to an allocation equivalent of roughly Rs10.1 crore per senator. The National Assembly’s allocation rose even faster. It increased from Rs8.308 billion in 2023-24 to Rs17.005 billion in 2026-27 – an increase of 104.7%, equivalent to an annualised g
Who decides what you pay at the pump? (opens the original)
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Every minister, adviser and spokesperson will tell you the same thing: Pakistan's petrol price is based on a rolling Platts/Oilgram average — an objective international benchmark. Transparent. Scientific. Beyond manipulation. Not true. Pakistan's petrol pricing formula has a secret. Ministers won't mention it. Spokespersons may not know it. And Ogra's weekly notifications are carefully designed to obscure it. The rolling Platts/Oilgram average — that objective international benchmark they keep c
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