Dr. Muhammad Akram Zaheer The world’s political system change over time is a bit like how living things grow and develop. It is a complicated system with different parts that work together. Sometimes, there’s an imbalance in power between different parts of the world, like big countries having more power than others. When power is spread out more evenly in the world, the system can switch big changes for better. The system needs change to keep growing and develop. As it changes, it creates new parts. These new parts makeRead More

For decades, Pakistan’s economic reliance on the Gulf Cooperation Council has been comforting, linear, and fundamentally predictable. We exported low-skilled labor, imported crude oil, and relied on a steady floor of worker remittances to cushion our perennial current account shocks. In the past, whenever our fiscal reserves dried up and default loomed, Islamabad’s playbook was predictable: a flurry of high-profile diplomatic visits to Riyadh or Abu Dhabi to secure central bank deposits or deferred oil payments. That transactional safety net is now gone. A harsh mix of regional security risksRead More