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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…

19 hrs ago • briefpk

Pakistan Monthly Roundup: June 2026

Kashmir rose, the budget tightened, and Pakistan’s unresolved crises

Jul 6 • briefpk

Pakistan's Water Crisis And India's Escalation

Pakistan is drowning in a crisis it built for itself and simultaneously being strangled by a neighbor exploiting the vulnerability that decades of…

Jul 2 • briefpk

June 2026

Dollars, Dictatorship, and a Wasted Boom: The Musharraf Era and Pakistan’s Ruling Class

Will Pakistan leverage its diplomatic success to secure a future for all Pakistanis, or just for the military and political elite?

Jun 21 • briefpk

The Children of Pakistan With Trapped Childhoods

Jun 20 • briefpk

Pakistan's Health System Or Lack There Of

Note: Names have been changed for security reasons.

Jun 18 • briefpk

Pakistan’s Ponzi State

For 25 years the government borrowed to pay its debt, used inflation to quietly erase it, and called the accounting trick revenue.

Jun 17 • briefpk

Weekly Radar: Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Jun 16 • briefpk

The Budget Pakistan Never Sees

The Ministry of Finance published two documents on June 12.

Jun 16 • briefpk

Pakistan Spends More on One Cash Programme Than On Educating 240 Million People

How the Benazir Income Support Programme, audited for billions in irregularities, took 4.5 percent of the FY27 budget while the country’s schools took…

Jun 14 • briefpk

Pakistan’s FY27 Budget

A summarized reading of the current budget

Jun 13 • briefpk

Islamabad's Government in Azad Jammu & Kashmir

In Rawalakot the wheat is priced in rupees that keep losing weight, the electricity bill arrives carrying a tariff bureaucrats in Muzaffarabad cannot…

Jun 12 • briefpk

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