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Why Bilawal is more Zardari than Bhutto
The young man only looks at Pakistan and the world from the eyes of his father
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Year of withdrawal
US troop drawdown in Syria and Afghanistan takes many by surprise
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One party, one unit?
Pakistan, as it stands today, was once forced to be one administrative unit
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The CPEC debate
The two states will link up through corridor, fulfil their needs amid existential challenges
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The concept of federalism
Despite 18th amendment, provinces still seem trapped in the colonial clutches of Islamabad
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Education, knowledge and power
The PTI government seems to be single-minded in transforming its election manifesto into a reality
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Holistic audit of energy sector
The current gas crisis cannot be assumed to be a sudden phenomenon
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Fact-checking Quaid’s development vision
A simple fact-check shows how far removed we are from the priorities visualised by the Great Leader
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Economic desperation and PTI’s populist dilemma
Bhutto had faced a similar dilemma with his populism
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America is ‘doing more’
This is power play
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The ailing GCC and its future
This is not the first time that the GCC member states have locked into a dispute
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Afghanistan — obstacles to troop pullout
The country needs institutions and rulers who would undertake the gigantic task of rebuilding it
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Regulating domestic work
Law in itself can’t protect rights of workers since workers lack awareness and the resources to pursue legal action
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Drive against encroachment: step in the right direction
Land grabbing is not a new thing in the country, and has been going on for almost three quarters of a century
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Follow up, please
Remember those two children who died after eating food at a restaurant in an upscale Karachi neighbourhood?
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America’s Syria and Afghan policy
Trump saw no meaningful purpose behind retaining US forces
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Doing the right thing — finally
If the Americans do not deliver, we should be under no obligation to bail them out of Afghanistan
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The permanent prisoner
Nawaz Sharif’s troubles appear to be never ending
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HR crisis of experts
Most of these so-called experts have no contextual research experience or no rigorous training in these matters
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British Airways and FDI take-off
British Airways’ decision is just the start
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Time to reform disaster risk reduction system
Adopting the DRR notion equal to the concept of vaccination and immunisation is essential
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The battle of beverages
In a world where large chunks of the population are clamouring for provision of clean drinking water
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An untimely death
University of Sargodha professor dies in NAB custody sparks outcry
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Who’s behind the Afghan endgame
The latest push for peace appears to be decisive
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The making of foreign policy in the world of Islam
The four contending political orders
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Deductive Khan and inductive Bhutto
As ‘dichotomies of dualities’ become the root of news television
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The race for exit?
As leaders of PPP and PML-N face corruption charges
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Post-truth politics and the anti-fragile state
Constantly adding words to our lexicon: the resistance, fake news and post-truth politics
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If Nawaz is jailed, again…
Here’s what this could mean
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Wage growth and gender pay gap in Pakistan
Over the last 15 years, there has been no major policy initiative regarding the labour market and its well-being
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Your ‘PhD in politics’
History has curious way of using ordinary mortals to get extraordinary, sometimes exceptional, sometimes great results
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Bamboozling Bitcoin
Will Blockchain technology continue to build upon the existing infrastructure?
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India’s Kulbhushan embarrassment
New Delhi seems to have turned what in essence was a bilateral dispute with Pakistan into a bloody domestic problem
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16 December 1971: before and after
Bangladesh ahead of Pakistan in economic and social development
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The legacy of United Pakistan
Still haunts the minds of those who had experienced the tragedy of their country’s dismemberment
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The populist revolt
When prosperity is discernable, not necessarily attainable, can it be promised
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Why educating our girls remains a challenge?
Pakistan has the second highest number of children out of school
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Reviving emergency healthcare
As the emergency medical facilities mostly unavailable or insufficient to meet the demands of the patient load
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You are either with us or with the enemy
Pakistan refuses to allow its land to be used for supplying guns to the moderate Taliban fighters
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10 years after 26/11
There is an increasing US-India joint antagonism against Pakistan
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No magic
SEZs can turn around a country’s economic fortunes
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Need for structural, systemic changes
Pakistan needs to rationalise and overhaul its political and administrative structure
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Challenges of the cyber age
well-intentioned social media companies may be, they generate an explosion of information which may not be factual
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Fall of Dhaka: can we learn from history?
The war goes on after more than forty years, with new players but within the same geography
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To go to IMF or not?
Funding from the IMF will do no more than provide a band aid, so ideally such a treatment should be avoided
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The politics of INGOs
Politicisation of development is another product of this non-traditional security-development nexus approach by the US
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Never forget
We have heard much of accountability from the Prime Minister, but only of the white-collar kind
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Fixing corruption in five years
Pakistan’s score improved by merely five points in the last five years
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The best investment
The investment: girls’ education
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Ratings downgrade
The risks ahead cannot be glossed over















































