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Need to promote tourism culture in Pakistan
Tourism is source of huge earnings in many countries, but Pakistan fetched less than $700 million in 2021 from tourism
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Aborted inquiries
We need to ask questions, and empower people to inquire and reflect before it is too late
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Free speech, hate and hypocrisy
Muslim minorities around the world have been subjected to discrimination, intolerance and violence
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All is well in Pakistan
Future is certainly bright. We are doing much better than our competitors, North Korea and Afghanistan
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Brainwashed rulers
On closer inspection, however, this is largely only illusion
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India’s fraying democracy
How that is likely to happen is the subject of this article and the one that will follow next week
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Learning disabilities
Dyslexic students find it hard to recognise, recall or spell the word correctly
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Decoding the cipher
What was significant, though, was that The Intercept had the copy of that cipher
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Surrender of sovereignty and burial of conscience
Only few stood tall, including Senators Mushtaq Khan, Tahir Bezinjo and Raza Rabbani
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Pakistani diaspora and domestic politics
Treason should never be allowed to trump politics either at home or abroad
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America’s 911 call and global response to Ukraine war
Twenty-four months later one can say employment of non-military means has not been as effective as the US desired
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Urban flooding and Lahore
For an analytic approach to counter the threat of natural disasters, information and data is of paramount significance
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Injustice and Pakistan
Notwithstanding the positive societal outcomes, the laws are subjected to frequent violations
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Riding the dark tiger
Mazari is self-confessedly biased against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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Philosopher kings, ersatz demagogues
Niccolo Machiavelli is viewed as the advocate of the black art of power as a goal in itself
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Ruptures within India’s majoritarian democracy
The BJP under Modi has whipped up Hindu zeal to make life insufferable for India’s minorities
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Reforming campus research culture
Supervisor needs to guide the scholar to publish research output to fulfil the requirement for the award of PhD degree
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How the world is shaping up
It is meant to keep the US interested without letting it wander away and without being entrapped in an imposed war.
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The Shehbaz legacy
The government shied away from taking even a single piece of reform on its own
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Nigerois kiss the French goodbye?
Recent turmoil in Niger, with its third coup in as many years, adds to the chaos
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Education revolution or political gimmick?
Under the current scheme, 100,000 laptops will be provided to Pakistani youngsters based on merit
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Risk of a military conflict in South China Sea
Militarisation of the region could at any time make matters worse with either side twisting the knife
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Pakistan, a graveyard of questions
First human child, who opened his eyes and saw the world around him with wonder, was the first philosopher
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Building trust in the system
List is long and a sordid reminder of our weak and troubled democratic evolution
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Terrorism — need for a new public policy
Scourge of militancy and terrorism arouses feelings of anxiety and helplessness
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Staying Afloat Amidst Floods: Learning from the Dutch
Poor policies, inadequate funds and misplaced priorities undermine the country's ability to build a resilient future
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Losers and winners of opportunities
Pakistan's security-centric approach and inconsistent taxation regulations causing hurdles in the path of investment
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Can Sheikh Hasina secure a fourth term?
Bangladesh faces its defining moment with polls scheduled to take place in six months
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Unremarkable half decade
Sustained disregard for science and technology through successive regimes cuts to the core of Pakistan's woes
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Re-emerging threat of terrorism
Once again, there has been a war-like situation and shadowy figures with malignant intent are on the rampage
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The 10 years of CPEC
Credit goes to both China and Pakistan that despite terrorism, the CPEC project has continued
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CPEC and Afghanistan’s mineral wealth
New Taliban administration is still figuring out how to take advantage of the presence underground of the mineral
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Thinking of free and fair election
We must not forget that for the greater part of history, people have not been ruled by military dictators
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Gwadar-at-Lahore?
It was like this burden of discriminated past was not enough and another one was just so carelessly imposed
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Russia must stop using food as a weapon
These efforts have been conducted in close collaboration with the EU and its partners
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Can meaning be fixed?
There is hardly a unanimous and agreed-upon meaning of a thing, even within a single academic discipline
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Minus the strategist, the strategy derails
There is no magic wand that PARCO has and the PSM didn’t have
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Why do I pay anxiety tax on my productivity?
If I wasn’t anxious, I’d get so much more done and actually enjoy the process versus feel so much pain
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CPEC and BRI: beyond economic opportunities
China is refurbishing the centuries-old trade routes
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5th August and regional impact
Illegal delimitation has given six more assembly seats to the Jammu region, but just one more to the Kashmir region
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How democracies die — Kashmir
Supreme Court of India at that time was headed by compromised CJI Ranjan Gogoi
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Ambiguity surrounding BJP’s Kashmir policy
Trump’s time in Washington is marked with three important decisions
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A pathway to economic growth
Let it be clear that the proof of the pudding will be in the eating
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Identify means to enable US-China collaboration
Pakistan has been successful in leveraging its geoeconomic location to secure Chinese funding
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Demographic dividend — boon or bane?
On the average we add 20 million people every ten years in the periodic cycle of a census
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About Language
And the study of language gives us ample ground to think so
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The technicalities of Ukraine’s counteroffensive
For the above to happen there are certain pre-requisites
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Life before and after FATF greylist
Greylisting by the FATF is done when a country is home to terror financing and money laundering
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Our self-designed brutality
Zainab, Maham, Zohra, Uzma, Erum, Tayyaba and now Rizwana attract our attention only after they have already happened
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Sindh’s battle against usury
Poor economic conditions of the farmers of Thar force them to take loans, especially where there is a drought