Pakistan possesses enormous potential in the livestock and meat industry, yet this potential remains largely underutilized in international trade. The country produces more than 6 million metric tonnes of meat annually, but its total exports of meat and meat preparations are only around US$530 million a year. Pakistan’s reported share of the global halal meat...
In 2025, Mehraj Malik did the safest thing a politician can do: he won an election. The Aam Aadmi Party legislator from Doda took his assembly seat after voters elected him. Months later, the district magistrate detained him under the Public Safety Act, without trial or conviction, for the better part of a year. Chief...
Sadat Choudhary is a Canada-based entrepreneur working at the intersection of cultural diplomacy, activism, and social justice. A few months back I sat in a community hall in Toronto, folding chairs, a coffee urn nobody ever quite empties, listening to a group of young Pakistani-Canadians talk about a housing project back home. Half of them...
Seven years have passed since 5 August 2019, when the Indian government revoked the State of Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status and reorganised the former state into two Union Territories. Yet the central political question of Kashmir, an internationally disputed territory, remains unresolved. The region has experienced profound institutional change, but questions of political...
The directives issued by the Prime Minister’s Office following the tragic fire incident at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) deserve appreciation. The swift response to the interim inquiry report, including directions for disciplinary and criminal proceedings against those found responsible, demonstrates that the state can act promptly when it chooses to do so....
The tragic fire in the nursery of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, in which newborn babies lost their lives, has shaken the conscience of the entire nation. These were not ordinary patients who could run, call for help or protect themselves. They were newborn babies—fragile, innocent lives that had only just entered...
TFN Research & Policy Analysis Uzbekistan’s freight traffic with members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation reached approximately 33.5 million tonnes in 2025, around 40 percent—or about 9 million tonnes—higher than five years earlier. The headline is significant. But the more important story lies behind the number. Uzbekistan is one of only two double-landlocked countries in...
The Pakistan Army is not merely an institution; it is one of the most important pillars of Pakistan’s national defence and security. For decades, its officers and soldiers have stood at the frontiers of the country, faced grave threats and made the ultimate sacrifices for the motherland. Thousands of Pakistani families have lost their sons...
Harvard University, one of the world’s most prestigious universities and a global benchmark for excellence in higher education, research and scholarship, has given us a thought-provoking reason to examine the real value of a university degree in today’s rapidly changing world. Harvard has produced an extraordinary number of Nobel laureates and generations of leading scholars,...
The recent visit of the US Ambassador to Kashmir, and his subsequent interactions with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, has ignited a firestorm of debate. In the high-stakes theater of South Asian diplomacy, words are never accidental. While some view the Ambassador’s rhetoric as a nod to New Delhi, a broader analysis of the current geopolitical...
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