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Is Punjanb “Suthra” Under CM Maryam Nawaz?

The Rs 270 Billion Corruption Scandal

19 hrs ago • briefpk

Pakistan’s Defence Forces Act Puts Military Power in One Hand

The Defence Forces Act 2026 gives one army office command of all three services, control over military careers and decisive influence over the nuclear…

Aug 20 • briefpk

Pakistan’s Independence Will Begin When Its Masters Disappear

Seventy-nine years after independence, Pakistan’s real struggle is against the modern slavery built into the way we govern, work and treat one another.

Aug 14 • briefpk

Pakistan Has Never Been Governed for Pakistanis

The British left in 1947, but the machinery they built to control the population survived inside a military state that protects its rulers and abandons…

Aug 6 • briefpk

Pakistan Monthly Roundup

Aug 3 • briefpk

Sohail Sakhi Wanted Pakistanis to Own Their Mountains

The mountaineer from Hunza climbed K2 without bottled oxygen, trained children and built a local expedition company before an avalanche killed him on…

Aug 2 • briefpk

July 2026

What Pakistan Is For

On the military, the political elite, and a state that has become an instrument of its owners.

Jul 28 • briefpk

Karachi’s Prostitution Economy Is a Government Business

The city arrests women on its roads while poverty supplies them, customers use them, traffickers control them, and police power keeps the market…

Jul 26 • briefpk

Tourism in Pakistan: The Invisible Hand Behind Your Next Booking

Jul 22 • briefpk

Balochistan’s Information Black Hole

The War Pakistan Is Not Allowed to See

Jul 13 • briefpk

PIA’s Sale and the Debt Left Behind

How Pakistan turned a national carrier into a test of privatisation, public liability, and concentrated power

Jul 11 • briefpk

The Weather Pattern Over Rawalpindi

There is a quiet that settles over Islamabad when the men who have long spoken in the voice of the state begin to discover that their voice no longer…

Jul 9 • briefpk

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