Gwadar is the reason the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor exists, and Balochistan is the province that hosts it. This plain-English guide explains what has been built, who has gained, why many local people remain unhappy…
Asad Ali Toor is an Islamabad journalist who reports on the Supreme Court and runs the YouTube channel Asad Toor Uncensored. He was assaulted in his home in 2021, jailed for three weeks in…
Clear answers to the questions behind the headlines.
See all Politics Explained →On the night of 8 March 2025 the roof of a small house on the northern edge of Karachi came down on…
Most federal laws must pass the National Assembly and the Senate and then receive the President's assent. Here is the route a…
A caretaker government runs the country between the dissolution of an assembly and the swearing-in of the next elected government. The Constitution…
A no-confidence vote lets the National Assembly remove a Prime Minister between elections. Here is what the Constitution requires at each step,…
On 8 February 2024 Pakistanis voted in the most disputed election in a generation. This plain-English guide sets out the road to…
Aitzaz Hasan was a 15-year-old student from Hangu who died on 6 January 2014 while stopping a suicide bomber at the gate…
