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Indian media’s selective reporting
The Indian media deliberately excludes the majority of the population
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Restructuring export base
Pakistan is ranked 138th in the 2016 Doing Business country rankings, reflecting the challenging business environment
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Who will bell the cat?
It is hardly likely to take the Danish route to investigate the ‘who’ and the ‘how’ of the Panama scandal
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No visas for minorities
Crisis emanating from the global wave of refugees, asylum seekers and migrations has caused a major disruption in West
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The road to knowledge economy
Slogans of turning Pakistan into a knowledge economy have been echoing in the political corridors
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Reforming FATA
It seems that the people of Fata figure nowhere
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Partly true
The corruption and poor governance in our country is evident enough for all to see
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K-P Police Ordinance & public safety
The KPPO states that on the basis of “unsatisfactory performance”, a DPO can be removed from his post
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Who will protect the minorities?
Since the inception of Pakistan, minorities, have never been treated as its true components
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To burkini or not to burkini
It is a fallacy to think that stripping someone of their sense of dignity is anything short of an attack on liberty
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Tourism astir
The problem now is there are insufficient rooms at budget level to cater to the average middle-class Pakistani tourist
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To abuse or not
Philippines can perhaps do without its president’s impulsive and intemperate attitude
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Stop complaining & vote for Imran Khan
Imran Khan the phenomenon is even more interesting than the man himself
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Obama and Afghanistan
Sadly, Afghanistan has endured one of the most devastating conflicts of our time
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Instruments of terror
The equation is quite even as far as allegations and suspicions go
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FATA reforms to be seen as a process
The much-awaited report of the committee on Fata reforms is now public
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Imran Khan’s politics
The PTI strategy has always been embedded in making accusations against the PML-N
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Basic services missing
Reforms and remedies have been discussed for years, but improvements have been limited in number, scale and duration
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Unique US presidential election
As opposed to Trump, Hillary Clinton has a deep understanding of the world and is very familiar with South Asia
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Science, soaps and safety
Regulation of products is ultimately driven by both scientific analysis and concerns for public safety and well-being
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Persuasion and its limits
Panama claptrap and another round of maniacal dharnas, existential threats loom large in the distance
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Time for introspection in the Muslim world
Other than the cognitive wedge in Muslim world, there are many other exogenous factors responsible for its dire strait
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The Hope and Change Con?
A study finds 60% of Americans don’t have enough savings to pay for unexpected car repairs or medical emergencies
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Is IMF backing away from neoliberalism?
It seems reasonable that governments should balance budgets, and not spend in excess of what they earn
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The Pakistani state in its 70th year
The country is now in the process of establishing a political order that is likely to be also largely inclusive
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Significance of CPEC
Pakistan is likely to suffer even more political instability, insurgency, terrorism, etc as the CPEC progresses
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The challenge ahead
Journalism in Pakistan is in a spin
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Dynamics of Indo-US military cooperation
This agreement is viewed as the first step for more military cooperation in the future
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The art of cynical distraction
I refuse to believe that the MQM will disappear altogether, just as PPP and JI will not disappear in the near future
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Not an obituary of the MQM
For me, the MQM stands as a constant reminder that something went wrong, horribly wrong, with the Pakistan idea
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Medium of instruction issue
Question of who'll teach children English is unanswered because it is a language few Indians know well enough to teach
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Think small, stay small
Mediocre minds cannot understand that without the fundamentals, Pakistan cannot grow into a modern society
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Trump’s police state
America as conceived by its founding fathers was not meant to be a police state
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Roller coaster for MQM
The MQM came into being in the early 1980s due to a number of genuine political reasons
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Reconciling Islamic ethics and practices
Ethics may be defined as the set of moral principles that help us distinguish between right and wrong
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Deceptive declarations
Reviewing the declarations, it is revealed they are not even filled in line with the legal requirements
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Strange notions
Just what sort of homo sapiens inhabit our houses of parliament?
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The Clinton Foundation controversy
The current US presidential race is certainly one of the most controversial and divisive ones in my living memory
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NAB’s crusade against corruption
The year 2014 can be considered the year of NAB’s rejuvenation in which many positive initiatives were taken
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Implementation of K-P police ordinance
To utilise the energies of the community, Public Liaison Councils (PLC) are to be constituted under the KPPO
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Make America hate again!
Ghazala and Khizr Khan are Trump’s biggest challenge
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Dark horizons
The ‘other’ is a powerful chord to strike and it possibly swung the Brexit vote more than any other single factor
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The fear of fear
Terror can strike anytime, anywhere and in any form
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Peacebuilding as policy approach
Neither India nor Pakistan has yet become party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1970)
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Police, crime and terrorism
The K-P Police Ordinance ordinance sets new principles of authority in tandem with accountability
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The enigma of Pak-Afghan relations
Differences over joint counterterrorism efforts in the larger context still persist
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Connection between Fiji and Quetta
I had never foreseen a link between Fiji and the bomb blast that recently occurred in Quetta killing 73 people
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MQM’s struggle for survival
The military leadership should take a nuanced approach in dealing with the MQM
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The integrators
At a time when the seams of our national fabric seem to be ripping, not everyone is building bridges of hate
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Vagueness in cybercrime law
In this country there is a constitutional right that is currently endangered
















































