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Inequality, polarisation and tribalism
This will help lessen the acuteness of inequalities between poor and rich nations
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Trump’s trade war
'Everybody loses in a protracted trade war'
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Nobel prize for Trump?
When Trump broached the subject of peace between the two Koreas his audience erupted into chants of ‘Nobel, Nobel’
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Is the ultimate civilian coup possible in Pakistan?
The PML-N is ready to contest elections on the slogan of people's supremacy over military
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Dengue pays a visit
Dengue virus treatment at Bahawalpur VIctoria Hospital
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Escalating dangers of Indian missiles
India is constantly arraying a variety of ballistic missiles in the region of three nuclear-weapons states
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Transition to democracy — at last
Democracy is an evolving system, self-perfecting without any pre-determined final point
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FATA merger and change management
The real problem will start to unfold when the merger process is carried out practically
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Empowering women of Pakistan
For a mother’s emancipation is deliverance of the entire family
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The right time?
The 'right time' syndrome reveals that we here in Pakistan still do not believe in democracy
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Open letter to Dr Banuri
The right investments in higher education can turn the trajectory of our intellectual fortunes skywards
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CPEC: transport or economic corridor?
History shows that transport corridors do transform into economic corridors through gradual development
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Kashmir — finding the way forward
'We need to build CBMs with Kashmiris via media and slogans and communicating in third countries'
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Faltering image
The PTI found itself wrong-footed with no one else to blame but themselves
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Empowering, enabling Thar
Dr Mir's dream is to empower the women craftspersons of Thar
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Pullback on the global front
This is the subject I will take up next week
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Survival is the name of the game
Survival depends more on self-help and mutual tolerance
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Reasons behind Indo-Pak truce
Continued hostilities between Pakistan and India will certainly be a distraction
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It’s love of money, stupid!
Tales of Zardari's alleged corruption are legendary
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FATA’s belated decolonisation
But most immediately through the merger, people of Fata may finally find solace
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Drought time bomb is ticking
Will planners and people at large rise out of slumber to save this country?
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Threat of delay
Flimsy grounds and legal judgments do not gel well. Generally.
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Achieving Agenda 2030
Development and economic growth are poised to make Pakistan grow exponentially in the coming years
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Parting shots
There was at least agreement on one item — that the elections should go ahead as planned, a view we endorse
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Wrangling the tax monster
No other government has ever done anything beyond bungle, fumble and fail with taxation
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A four-front confrontation
When you sum up these anti-Pakistan efforts being made by all these lobbies
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Governing Karachi
There is a need now to come up with what I would call the ‘Greater Cities Empowerment Order’
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Europe and Asia — together for a more secure world
Not only a pillar of multilateralism: the EU is a security actor in its own right
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‘Me too’ but ‘so what’?
The courts must strive to interpret laws to allow victims to seek support from them
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Mainstreaming FATA and the PPP’s role
The role of PPP must not be forgotten during this voyage
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Limits of the ‘girls effect’
Several scholars have expressed concerns about the potential of young girls
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Reform without anti-poor austerity
It is the challenge we face
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Drugs, kids and dangerous nonsense
There are no empirically researched facts about drug use in schools
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Nuclear weapons as security assets
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons become a crucial component of the overall security architecture against India
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Remembering Pakistan’s entry into the nuclear club
Full benefit of being a nuclear power can only be derived if all elements of national power are balanced
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Flaws in our democracy
Are we just a democracy in name, or in substance too?
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What will help crack Pakistan’s code?
We have got to start doing things that we’ve never done before
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The politics of a spy swap
Shakil Afridi’s and Jadhav’s fates might very well resemble that of Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy captured by the FBI
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Re-inventing ourselves in Ramazan
No matter how your year went, Ramazan is the chance for a new beginning
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My six years with the government
Punjab is a largely digitised affair
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Stunting — a $10 billion problem
45% of children remain stunted on account of malnutrition
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Diagnostics and disease management
Diagnosis and disease management is not just a fundamental right, it is also good economics
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The borderlands
True integration requires the people of Fata to discard the yoke of Rewaj in favour of basic human rights
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Watching America from within
In putting Pakistan down, Trump has expressed a strong preference for strengthening relations with India
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Getting rid of cobwebs
APP seems to have lost its direction
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Railway allotments
Pakistan Railways is a federal government entity and no provincial government has the authority
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Twenty years after
Nuclear testing, conflict and deterrence
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A hello to cellular 5G
High-frequency 5G signals could not reach longer distances
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Imran Khan’s foreign policy
PTI’s action plan is not different from the policies of the outgoing government of the PML-N
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CBM blues
Recent incidents across the LoC have underlined the futility of dialogue through ‘confidence building measures’