Dispatch
Everyone Wants Reform. Nobody Wants to Pay for It.
Pakistan knows exactly what needs fixing. The question is who is willing to lose power to do it.
Opinion
Op-Eds
Commentary and opinion from The Pakistan Playbook
Dispatch
Geopolitics
Op-Ed: No Asterisks. No Disclaimers. Just Pakistan.
For a people who have spent decades correcting the world's assumptions about them, today feels different. Pakistan announced the end of a war — and the document carries its name.
Society & Identity
Op-Ed: The King Of Medicine: How a British-Pakistani Finally Won the Premier League
How a doctor whose roots run from Sahiwal to Rochdale became one of English football's most trusted hands, and finally a champion.
Society & Identity
Op-Ed: The Architecture of Cult Politics Online: A Mirror Image Across South Asia
Two politically opposite movements in India and Pakistan have built operationally identical systems for online attacks on critical journalists. This report documents that architecture, and why ideology does not explain it.
Society & Identity
Op-Ed: Not Arabs. Not Indians. Just Pakistanis.
A country the world has never quite understood is doing what the world's institutions could not. Here is what the world has been missing.
Society & Identity
Op-Ed: The Siege Playbook: How BJP Silences Dissent and Weaponises the World's Criticism
The playbook is consistent. Attack the reviewer. Dismiss the institution. Mobilise the mob. Repeat. How the BJP turns every piece of international criticism into proof of a siege — and what it has cost Indian cinema.