Green Cars, Toxic Trail: Where Will All The EV Batteries Go?
From cobalt pits in Congo to lithium fields in Zimbabwe, the “clean energy” revolution begins in some of the...
The $40 Million Question: UN Cash Shipments, US Policy, And The Militant Spillover Into Pakistan
$40 Million a Week: Why Pakistan Should CareA simple claim has circulated since the Taliban returned to Kabul in...
Ransom Incorporated: Kacha Area, Pukka Disorder
Pakistan’s “ransom industry” has become an informal economy of abduction, extortion, and negotiated release that survives because the state...
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Populism Without Capacity: Why Imran Khan’s Tenure Was An Economic Setback
The years between August 2018 and April 2022 are now wrapped in a haze of nostalgia in parts of Pakistan’s public debate. On social media, Imran Khan’s government is often portrayed as a near-miraculous reform period derailed by conspiracy. The data tell a different story. When the four years are examined through the hard lens of United States dollars rather than emotional rhetoric, they look much more like a period in which Pakistan’s fiscal capacity, financial markets, and strategic leverage were quietly weakened.For clarity,...