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Miss Pinky
A girl from Baloch Para built Pakistan’s most sophisticated cocaine empire.
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Three Million Children
Baluchistan's Education Minister cannot count the province's missing students. A civic-tech organization with undisclosed foreign funding arrived in May…
May 12
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The Nursery at the Edge of Karachi
Almas Kasmani grew up in Rehri Goth, a fishing village the city is slowly consuming. She is planting it back, one propagule at a time.
May 11
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Pakistan's Snow Leapords
For a century, Pakistan knew its ghost cat was out there. This year, someone finally put a number to it.
May 10
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Who Is Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb?
Pakistan's finance minister ran the country's largest bank HBL for six years. The numbers he left behind tell a different story than the one he tells…
May 9
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A Favor from New Delhi
India ended a 65-year water treaty, reclassified Pakistan's flood warnings as a gesture of goodwill, and left 16 million hectares of farmland guessing…
May 8
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The Vault and the Sales Team
SWF, SIFC, IMF, And The Meca
May 6
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The Cement Cartel
Thirty Years on the Rack: Pakistan’s Cement Cartel, the CCP, the Khaki Conglomerate, and the High Cost of Collusion.
May 4
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Pakistan Monthly Roundup: April 2026
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May 3
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Pakistan's Intelligence Operated Media
How Pakistan's military-intelligence complex built an information environment in which silence is the rational choice.
May 2
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The Qabza State In Force
Land, Power, and the Clearance of Islamabad
May 1
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April 2026
Pakistan's Women's Football Team Is Being Sidelined By Its Own Government
Three weeks after making history at the FIFA Series, the national squad was denied clearance to compete at the SAFF Championship. No alternative has…
Apr 30
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