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Bank of Punjab deserves better
Under an open-to-interpretation corporate governance rule, the board is without a chairman since August
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Beyond the speech
The struggle continues; incremental if not transformational
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Appeasing aggression: 1939 and 2019
India took the UNSC’s lack of seriousness as an opportunity to tighten its military control over IOK
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Imposition of Article 149 in Karachi
The political implications of this manoeuver can cause a backlash against the PTI
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Pakistan’s population predicament
Pakistan has been firmly saddled with a very high fertility rate of 3.73 for the past four years
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AI gaming and the final frontier
Drawing parallels between the maze puzzles of Artificial Intelligence and the real world
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Election or democracy?
Foreign intervention in elections is like playing golf — only the elites play
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India’s thermonuclear bomb
India, from the outset, has been ambitious to achieve technological supremacy inspired by its “Greater India vision”
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ASPs as SHOs: knee-jerk reaction
Meaningful reforms are associated with socio-economic reforms by ensuring the implementation of existing laws
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A spectre is haunting women in Kashmir
The harassment of Kashmiri women has increased since the elimination of the autonomous status of Kashmir
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Pakistan’s foreign and domestic policy challenges
Internal strength of a country in terms of its economy, strategic cohesion is central in influencing foreign relations
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Imran vs Modi
Prime Minister Imran Khan has clearly defeated India in UNGA and provided ground to settle the dispute of Kashmir
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Let’s go to space, but slowly
Space science is interdisciplinary in nature and lies at the interface between engineering and the sciences
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Why don’t they eat cake?
Struggling to make ends meet, many Pakistanis still live below the poverty line
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Can Trump afford war in Middle East?
US military has been mulling an array of response options and bombing missile-launching sites in areas outside Iran
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Lawyers as scientists
When students do pursue a legal education, they are continuously taught that the law exists in a vacuum
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The (not so) hot millions!
Power begets money; and money gives rise to the urge to grab power
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‘Best speech’, but what next?
Not words but how the PM translates his words into action will determine his legacy and success on Kashmir
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World’s dirtiest city
Not much has changed in Karachi nearly 50 years on
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Will the young save the planet?
As a 16-year-old Swedish girl addresses world leaders at UNGA in New York
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Before the flood
Rising sea levels, intensifying droughts and unprecedented increase in wildfires
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Imran at UNGA
He warned the world in stark terms of a bloodbath in the state under illegal Indian occupation
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Mind the gap: gender equality and mobility in Pakistan
Poor and inefficient urban planning hinders people’s mobility and women are the primary victims
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Blocking Modi’s Hitlerism
The balance between legitimacy and power is extremely complex
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After the speech
The fourth part compensated for the first three ones
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India's actions in occupied Kashmir inching towards the unthinkable: FM Qureshi
Qureshi blames Modi’s government for gaslighting the international community into normalising India’s decision
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When paranoia is justified
Paranoia exists also to ensure that you are never caught by surprise
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Trump’s sweet talk
Fails to utter a single word of sympathy for the 7 million Kashmiris under lockdown for over 50 days
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Agricultural growth under Naya Pakistan
Leaders of the ruling PTI try to defend their underperformance, duly or unduly
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‘Houston, we have a problem’
Modi will invest in occupied Kashmir but only after it is Saffronised, or on the verge of it
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Tenure of SBP governor
Increase is directly linked with the vexed question of ensuring independence of Central Bank from political meddling
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‘Howdy, Modi!’ in Houston
Pakistan should make peace with the fact that on issues such as Kashmir, it will not receive much support from the US
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Kashmir: emerging as India’s West Bank?
Is it possible for India to replicate the Israelisation of West Bank as Indianisation of the Valley?
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Gaining moral high-ground on Kashmir crisis
PM Imran continues to position himself as the spokesman for Kashmiris, aiming to highlight their humanitarian plight
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Using forest inspection bungalows for tourism
Instead of snapshot actions, tourism ministries should devise comprehensive policies for promoting sustainable tourism
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Curbs on Iran and inflating US oil exports
US sanctions severely impact Iran's export-reliant economy and fuel people’s miseries
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Fear and loathing in Houston
The Indian-Americans support the right to freedom of association, but only in America
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Old medicine in a new bottle?
Improved water and sanitation could decrease more than 70% of infectious diseases in Pakistan
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The struggle for democratic consolidation
Clearly, many questions arise about neutrality and fairness of the accountability process
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Undermining the Federation: Threat to take over Karachi
Having such deep roots in the history of Karachi, the outburst was inevitable
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The mischiefs of ‘Howdy Modi’
No one is serious about taking bull by its horns
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We are living in Gotham
A lot has to be done by the police to rebuild a tarnished reputation and restore law and order
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Healing our social wounds
A Ruth Pfau, or an Edhi, comes once in a lifetime of nations — but we need them every day
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Kasur incidents and state’s response
A hard fact being the state's failure to respond to the dreadful threat of child abuse, rape and murder
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Putting the media on trial
But you’re still free — to lash out at the ruler’s opponents
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This is our problem
Climate change is not imagined, it is not a western creation
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The rodents have it!
Reportedly, several planes of Pakistan’s national airline were infested by rats
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The attack on Saudi oil infrastructure
The war that has sharpened the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran
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Pakistan’s three-way foreign policy challenge
Besides Kashmir, Pakistan also has to deal with instability in Afghanistan and fears of a conflict in the Middle East
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The culture of forced annexation
Thucydides had opined that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”