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The Impact of Remittances on Poverty in Pakistan

By Hassan Nasir, Hamid Haider Gilani and Hamza Butt | May 5, 2020

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What Are the Parallels Between Boko Haram and the TTP?

By Fiza Siddiq | May 5, 2020

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Corruption in Pakistan: The Case of the Civil Service

By Ghassan Khan | April 25, 2020

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An Introduction to the Public Sector in Pakistan

By Hassan Nasir | April 23, 2020

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Panda Diplomacy: How Beijing Sends Subtle Signals Without Saying a Word

China’s "panda diplomacy" leverages giant pandas as soft-power tools, strategically aligning animal loans with trade deals and political favors. The arrival of the adorable bamboo-crunching pandas signals goodwill during diplomatic thaws, while the sudden recalls…
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Dilemma: Can It Afford to Choose China Over the West?

Caught between Western economic influence and China’s strategic investments like CPEC, Pakistan faces a foreign policy dilemma. While China provides critical infrastructure and defense support, Western markets, remittances, and IMF backing remain indispensable for financial…
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The August 2026 edition of the Paradigm Shift magazine contains 15 carefully curated pieces exploring some of the most pressing political, social, economic, and strategic issues of the day. This edition examines Pakistan’s unspoken sexual…

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Pakistan’s literacy rate stands at 60.4, leaving nearly 4 in 10 people without basic reading and writing skills.

Literacy varies sharply by province, from Punjab (66.25) to Balochistan (42.01%), revealing deep regional inequality.

The literacy rate in Urban areas is 74.1 as compared to Rural areas where it is 51.6%

men have a higher literacy rate than women in Pakistan.

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Foreign Policy Pieces

Panda Diplomacy: How Beijing Sends Subtle Signals Without Saying a Word

China’s "panda diplomacy" leverages giant pandas as soft-power tools, strategically aligning animal loans with trade deals and political favors. The arrival of the adorable bamboo-crunching pandas signals goodwill during diplomatic thaws, while the sudden recalls…
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Dilemma: Can It Afford to Choose China Over the West?

Caught between Western economic influence and China’s strategic investments like CPEC, Pakistan faces a foreign policy dilemma. While China provides critical infrastructure and defense support, Western markets, remittances, and IMF backing remain indispensable for financial…
Paradigm Shift’s Magazine: August 2026 Edition

The August 2026 edition of the Paradigm Shift magazine contains 15 carefully curated pieces exploring some of the most pressing political, social, economic, and strategic issues of the day. This edition examines Pakistan’s unspoken sexual…
The Foreign Policy of India is at a Crossroads: A Shift from Strategic Autonomy

India's historical policy of strategic autonomy has increasingly shifted toward a precarious ambiguity, as the country struggles to avoid clear geopolitical commitments. This transition risks eroding India's reliability and international influence. India must distinguish between…
The Foreign Policy of Pakistan in an Emerging Multipolar World Order

Historically driven by security and economic dilemmas into transactional Cold War alliances with the United States, Pakistan frequently faced post-alliance containment and betrayal. This cyclic isolation prompted a strategic pivot toward regional powers, cementing an…

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This infographic shows the top 10 countries hosting the most Pakistani migrants. Saudi Arabia leads the chart with 49.5 of the Pakistani migrant population, followed by UAE (26.7%), Oman (7.0%), and Qatar (6.4%). Other top destinations include Malaysia (2.4%), the UK (1.9%), Bahrain (1.5%), Romania (0.6%), Iraq (0.5%), and Greece (0.3%).

The infographic shows a line graph of the annual number of people migrating from Pakistan from 2015 to 2025. The data points show a peak of approximately 940,000 in 2015, followed by a steady decline to roughly 380,000 in 2018. There is a brief recovery in 2019 (625,000) before a sharp drop to a decade-low of about 225,000 in 2020. The rate then surges back up to over 800,000 in 2022 and 2023, with a slight downward trend to roughly 680,000 by 2025.

This infographic is showing global coffee production and export flows, highlighting tropical producers like Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, and Ethiopia on a world map.It compares top coffee producers by tons and top consumers by 60-kg bags, with the USA, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia, and Russia leading consumption.

A visual ranking of the top 10 largest earthquakes in the world's history, according to seismic activity. The top 10 list include mega-quakes from Chile’s 1960 Valdivia (9.5) to Japan’s 2011 Tōhoku (9.1) seismic events.

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