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Zakat Poverty Eradication Model in Pakistan illustrating zakat distribution, employment creation, education, healthcare, and Islamic social finance impact

Poverty Eradication Model presents a Qur’an-based and fiqhi framework for using zakat to eliminate poverty in Pakistan through employment, entrepreneurship, ownership transfer, and baitul mal governance. The analysis moves beyond

Illustration showing persistent inflation squeezing middle-class households through rising prices, rent pressure, fuel costs, and shrinking purchasing power

Middle class inflation pressure explains why prices are not falling fast enough. Sticky services inflation, rising housing costs, and wage-price mismatches continue to erode real incomes across advanced and emerging

Red Sea disruptions push global container shipping costs sharply higher between October 2025 and January 2026 across major trade routes

The Red Sea shipping cost surge has emerged as one of the most consequential trade developments in early 2026. As this Chart of the Week shows, container freight rates climbed

Violations of Mudarabah in Islamic banking illustrated through a cracked Mudarabah contract, falling financial chart, broken pen, handcuffs, and an Islamic bank symbolizing juristic and economic failure.

کیا اسلامی بینکاری واقعی سود سے پاک ہے؟ مضاربہ کی خلاف ورزیاں آج مسلم معاشروں میں محض ایک فقہی اختلاف نہیں ہیں۔ بلکہ یہ سوال اب ایک سنجیدہ معاشی اور

Conceptual illustration of Mudarabah in Islamic banks, showing profit sharing, contracts, balance scales, and an Islamic bank building to question real risk sharing versus fixed returns.

Islamic Banking Mudarabah Violations reveal how modern Islamic banks diverge from genuine profit and loss sharing. This editorial analyzes risk avoidance, profit smoothing, Shariah non-compliance, and regulatory opacity to explain

Editorial illustration questioning whether Islamic banking is truly interest free, showing an Islamic bank, interest documents under a magnifying glass, currency, and religious symbols

Is Islamic banking really interest free, or has the promise of riba-free finance weakened in practice? This question has gained renewed importance across Muslim societies. Islamic banking interest free finance is

Illustration showing floods, wildfires, damaged infrastructure, falling fiscal indicators, and stacked coins, representing climate adaptation fiscal risk

Climate adaptation fiscal risk is emerging as a central challenge for emerging economies. This policy note examines how rising adaptation spending pressures public budgets, interacts with debt sustainability, and reshapes

Venezuela petrodollar crisis illustrated with burning oil facilities, stacks of U.S. dollars, and the Venezuelan flag symbolizing economic pressure and dollar dominance

Venezuela and the petrodollar reveal how de-dollarization carries economic and political costs. This editorial examines oil pricing, dollar supremacy, sanctions, and coercive enforcement to explain why Venezuela emerged as a

Venezuela and U.S. regime change illustration showing oil barrels, dollar symbolism, military intervention, and energy geopolitics linked to dollar supremacy

Venezuela and U.S. regime change reflect a broader effort to defend dollar supremacy. This analysis explains how oil, the petrodollar system, de-dollarization, sanctions, and coercive intervention intersect, while drawing historical

Illustration showing container ships facing disrupted global trade routes, with chokepoints highlighted across the Middle East and Asia, symbolizing the weaponization of trade corridors

Trade routes weaponization is no longer a theoretical framework debated in academic circles. Instead, it has become a lived reality of global commerce. Shipping lanes, canals, and maritime chokepoints once

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