Stretched thin
Published in Dawn on December 08, 2025 THE recent Pakistan Population Summit organised by DawnMedia laid it out plainly: the country cannot keep growing at its current pace. We stand at more than 241m people and numbers are expected to cross 330m by 2050. Pakistan is hurtling towards a future […]
Demonising the NFC Award
By Sakib Sherani Published in Dawn on December 06, 2025 THE newfound eagerness to recast Pakistan into a ‘hard state’, with its attendant power-centralising and anti-participatory tendency, has given an impetus to rolling back the federal structure enshrined in the 1973 Constitution. Reworking the NFC Award by fiat rather than[…]
Age of creative destruction
By Waqar Wadho Published in Dawn on November 27, 2025 THIS year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Joel Mokyr for reshaping how we understand economic growth in the long run. Their core idea is simple but powerful: sustainable economic growth and prosperity is[…]
Dr Nasra Shah participated in the Hybrid Global Conference on “Building Thriving Communities: Promoting Brain and Mental Health”, Nov 3 – 5, 2025 at the Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
The conference brought together a wide range of experts focusing on diverse aspects of brain and mental health. Dr. Shah participated in the theme that focused on “Mental health journeys of young migrants’ performance” and made a presentation on “International Migration from Pakistan and Mental Health Issues”. The session highlighted[…]







