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Expanding customer base with redesigned websites using bandit framework
Bandit framework supports dynamic redesign of business websites to effectively engage wavering customers
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Symbols of racism
Where do we draw the line?
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Pension for 100 years!
Besides the sheer size, what is really frightening is the pace at which the pensions are growing
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Pakistan's best
Sometimes I wonder who gets to be in parliament?
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Some shame, some questions
The real question to ask was the competence of the inquiry committee itself.
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As China-India relations remain unsettled
One consequence of Sino-India conflict would be to draw New Delhi closer to US
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Consequences of a showdown between two Koreas
Seoul is troubled with Washington’s persistence to extort more billions
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Looming food crisis
The real issue, however, is much more complex
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Foreign policy success: myth vs reality
We need to take a holistic view when claiming success on foreign policy
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Learning from the past
When epidemics spread with no end in sight it generates either panic or pessimism, leading to resigned fatalism
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Where are we failing, Pakistan?
Pakistan’s dilemma remains a compromised leadership
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Kashmir’s role in boiling China-India tensions
There are others who argue Pakistan shouldn’t make this conflict about itself
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The Rising Sun and Thucydides Trap
India must do well to remember that there is only one sun that rises from the East and that is China
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Covid-19: way out for Pakistan
To have an effective system of contact tracing, we need valid epidemiological data of cases
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Our unfinished stories
Without clever stories you will never have the culture industry you yearn for
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Another letter from Rome
Italy seemed to be making progress in curbing spread of the virus notwithstanding political turbulence and infighting
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Chameleon chamber
Our opposition, like our govt, keeps their personal interests in view rather than imagining the whole picture
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The Afghan war and the just war theory
In a Just War the “cost benefit ratio” should also be “positive”
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Has Covid-19 made health budgets respectable?
As far as the health expenditure is concerned, the pandemic never happened
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America as an epicentre of racism?
The “racial time bomb” in the US will explode if Trump is re-elected in November
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India, China, the United States and us
One hopes that the Democrats will be able to transcend the maximalist stance towards China
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India’s false sense of security and stability
For any effective learning, India would have to make its regional foreign policy less belligerent and more consolatory
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Ertugrul Ghazi and modern Turkey’s strategic imperatives
Turkey had shown the path to Muslims, it can lead now
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Covid-19: Educating the masses
Awareness campaigns are expensive, but the lives of the people of Pakistan are priceless
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Kabul’s Kurdoglu
Cowards (enemies of peace) don’t hide behind a mask, they hide behind their Kurdoglu
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And the downward spiral continues
The new sanctions will unquestionably delay, if not entirely prevent, the reconstruction of Syria
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Food insecurity and hunger in Pakistan
There is an urgent need for govt to realise severity of the situation and take policy measures to avert the crises
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Implications of the India-China conflict
There is a glaring difference in the Indian response to China on LAC as opposed to theirs with Pakistan on the LoC
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Higher education and universities
The underlying purpose of all these statutory laws and policies is to enhance the quality of higher education
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The rise of anti-intellectualism
Slave mindset is indeed toxic — especially when we are slaves of our own ego
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Provincial budgets: exceeding expectations
Budgets for all four provinces are out and it seems that they have done a much better job than the federal government
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The maharajah’s new clothes
Yes. You heard that right. The award for the most unfriendly neighbour on the planet goes to… India.
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Inclusive institutions — Pakistan’s panacea
About 10 million people fell below the poverty level since 2018
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Selling plasma is illegal
The onus is on our authorities
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Robbing the disabled
The decision is harsh and inhumane, and it comes as a surprise that no one objected while it was being made
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India’s China problem
How would this building conflict get resolved?
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When Modi surrendered
Clearly, the Indian government has little option to hit back at China
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An expansionist South Asia
The region is currently living the reality of the third option. It just may be time for the world to act.
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Covid-19: bringing out the worst in us
The thief’s hat is always burning, so was the case here.
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Galwan Valley crisis and Indian response
India today, the India of Modi is not the India of Nehru and Gandhi
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Foreign intervention in Libya
Now the Erdogan administration is quickly pressing ahead to gain an overwhelming control on GNA government
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How not to amend a law
Children from 16 to 18 may be allowed work only in non-hazardous occupations, and under defined code of conditions
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The Hindutva Reich
Perhaps the Indian diaspora needs to start defending itself against the machinations of this Hindu ISIL
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No more lockdown!
Pakistan is rewarding Covid-19 as a chance to get bailouts, abstain from undertaking changes under the IMF agreement
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Unsung heroes
Some stories that inspire and move the most are written in blood and sweat — stories of those who dared death itself
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The half-built capacity of bureaucracy
In the post-budget presser, the person who appeared the most clueless was the Finance Secretary
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The World Bank’s ‘Papergate’
This evident leakage is just the tip of the iceberg given other forms of kickbacks and corrupt practices
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Double jeopardy!
Difficult days are ahead and the growing economic predicament will not end by mere rhetoric and blame game
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How Quad triggered the Ladakh stand-off
For South Asia, India has been a hostile neighbour and its current border disputes have exposed her hegemonic design
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Ignorance or denial?
The world doesn’t need more knowledge as much as it needs the truth

















































