Book Review – The New Pakistani Middle Class by Ammara Maqsood

By Usman Hanif Published in The Express Tribune on August 03, 2026 KARACHI: Pakistan, which set its eyes on $5 billion in IT and IT-enabled services exports, closed the 2025-26 fiscal year with a record $4.6 billion in exports, a roughly 21% rise from $3.814 billion in the previous year. The figure marks the highest annual earnings […]

Published in Dawn on July, 30, 2026 MODERN slavery, in the form of human trafficking, is among the state’s gravest failures. Scores of Pakistanis are trafficked annually, yet the conviction rate for those who traffick them remains low. This World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, under the theme ‘Trapped behind a scam’, focuses on the rising “form[…]