Politics & Policy
Cabinet rooms, courts, parties, and the policy decisions that shape 250 million people.
50 episodes
1:40:52 Pakistan ran a fiscal surplus on petrol — not policy
with Adeel Azhar
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30:30 The Rs. 415 petrol price is not an international problem
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1:07:48 Pakistan's hybrid system has run out of foreign rent
with Yasir Ahmed Soomro
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1:30:08 Pakistan's two real university problems are governance and quality
with Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed
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1:37:39 Punjab's budget is finally spending on people, not just roads
with Marriyum Aurangzeb
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1:18:04 If you don't shackle the Leviathan, it eats you up
with Sultan Mehmood
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1:32:30 Inside Bangladesh's revolution, told by a Dhaka University student
with Mamunur Rashid
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1:21:15 Pakistan's system isn't broken — it was built to extract
with Saeed Afridi
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1:08:16 Why the army finally lost Pakistan's middle class
with Niaz Murtaza
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1:21:34 Pakistan's identity is not a product of our organic history
with Shershah Khan
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1:39:56 Zulfi Bukhari: Pakistan is under a soft martial law
with Zulfi Bukhari
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1:10:04 Pakistan is sliding into chaos. The only exit is a third republic.
with Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Zubair
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1:34:56 Pakistan's problem isn't debt — it's that the inflows have dried up
with Muzammil Aslam
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1:34:40 Pakistan's ruling system has fire under its feet
with Adeel Malik
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1:39:35 Pakistan is in coercive economic diplomacy — and the elite has no foresight
with Adeel Malik
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1:19:30 The logistics of getting aid into Gaza and flooded Pakistan
with Hafiz ur Rehman
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1:34:42 Why Pakistan built the power and still cannot deliver it
with Naeem Shafique
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2:05:02 How Shaukat Khanum built world-class cancer care from nothing
with Dr Aasim Yusuf
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1:26:42 Why Pakistan's healthcare crisis is really a pricing problem
with Dr. Muhammad Saleem Khan
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2:29:31 The electric car policy Pakistan's auto mafia killed
with Malik Amin Aslam
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1:29:59 The seventy good years might have been the aberration
with Zaigham Haque
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1:25:46 What AI does to law, and the courts too slow to notice
with Adam Jabbar
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2:09:50 Pakistan doesn't have a water problem. It has a soil problem.
with Taimur Malik
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1:37:00 Why Pakistan makes billions of Panadol tablets but can't make the powder
with Farhan M. Haroon
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Pakistan's economy has never been this dark
with Asad Umar
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The doctor who built PTI's digital machine
with Dr. Arslan Khalid
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Pakistan is stuck in history while the world moves on
with Mohammad Zubair Umar
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1:03:22 Asad Umar: Pakistan cannot grow without deep reform
with Asad Umar
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Pakistan's pension system will collapse in ten years
with Taimur Khan Jhagra
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All roads lead to restructuring
with Javed Hassan
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Suleman Sharif: 'Pakistan treated wealth creation as a sin'
with Suleman Shehbaz Sharif
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50:28 Imran Khan on the cipher, the economy, and refusing to quit
with Imran Khan
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Why Pakistan's economy can't be fixed by the free market
with Dr. Taimur Rahman
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1:41:38 Syed Muzammil Shah: I Came to Media for Power, Not Truth
with Syed Muzammil Shah
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Pakistan's politics won't change until the economy is fixed
with Moonis Elahi
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Pakistan is near the cusp of disaster
with Javed Hassan
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1:42:38 Who really destroyed Karachi?
with Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman
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1:03:50 Pakistan's first 100% state-funded health insurance
with M. Arshad Qaim Khani
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1:05:17 The state is not a political party, and its digital media shouldn't be either
with Shahbaz Khan
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1:17:19 Gilgit-Baltistan is the only region fighting to integrate
with Yasir Abbas
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1:48:31 Pakistan's farmland is a science problem, not a land problem
with Saad Tamman
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1:17:13 The obvious is the hardest thing to discover in Pakistan's economy
with Muzzammil Aslam
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56:21 Afghanistan's $10 billion is being held by the country that signed its peace deal
with Raoof Hasan
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57:20 Do civil servants really serve? An AC answers honestly
with Ibrahim Arbab
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50:58 The ASP who built Pakistan's first gender protection unit
with Amna Baig
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45 min Hussain Nadim on rebuilding a think tank from inside the system, the great-game read of Afghanistan, and why Joe Biden isn't calling
with Dr. Hussain Nadim
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1:06:20 Dr. Tariq Banuri on higher education reform in Pakistan
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57:26 On civil service, Balochistan, and building a life worth living: a conversation with Awaid Bhatti
with Muhammad Awaid Irshad Bhatti
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59:01 Peace, Polarization, and Pakistan's Turning Point: A Conversation with Dr. Adnan Rafiq
with Dr. Adnan Rafiq
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1:35:20 Imran Khan on Pakistan's political crisis, foreign policy, and the road ahead
with Imran Khan
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