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Will go with the wind?
If today French society is an example for others, it is because of its writers and thinkers
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Animals’ five freedoms
The government of Pakistan should improve upon the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1890
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Post-colonial medical brain-drain
BBC has found evidence of active British recruitment of doctors from WHO red-list countries
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Do the civilians lack coordination capabilities?
There is very little discussion on how we got into the FATF grey list in the first place
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Sleepwalking into an Arab Spring
Autocratic dispensations gave way to populist set-ups on the back of euphoric aspirations that remain unfulfilled
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For Pakistan... China or America?
Are we in the midst of a power-relationship reset with Great Powers?
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Pak-US ties and myth of independence
The US-Pakistan relations have always been an epic of Love and Hate, Demand and Supply, and being used and abuse
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Adieu Arshad Sharif
We may never know who killed Arshad
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Where do we stand as a nation?
For the last few months, Pakistanis have seen nothing but turmoil
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A superstar victim of dictatorship!
People of KN Shah remember ‘Irani’ but few are aware of his success in Iran’s film industry
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Need for a judicious probe
Pakistan had enough of probe commissions, and the general outcome has never been satisfactory, ever
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The dream of reforming police
Much-needed resources could not be made available. Thus the police force is still lingering on with stereotype methods
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The change in command
Politicians are not the only one that are corrupt, there is corruption in several branches of the government
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US National Security Strategy 2022
President Joe Biden expresses in the 2022 NSS that “the world is at an inflection point
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Rendering climate justice
Pakistan is warming much faster than other nations
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Crisis after crisis
Pakistan has always been known to mimic the policies, systems and doctrines from the West
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Turning the spotlight on Karachi’s road safety issues
With the exponential increase of the population in Karachi, traffic has drastically burgeoned
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Research on forced displacement
The most recent floods are likely to make an even bigger impact on forced migration
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Poverty-promoted child abuse
Poverty is highest form of violence that can be inflicted on human beings
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No honour
A killer will now walk the streets of Pakistan freely and openly
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How to revive the Pakistani economy?
Those in charge of looking after the economy had outside help
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12 Oct 1999: Hijacking from the Ground
The then PM is said to have hijacked the plane or been behind it since he wanted to replace Musharraf
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Climate change solutions qualify as comedy
The advertised solutions of climate change have one thing in common: they conflict with each other
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Pakistan’s population problem
Pakistan presents a case study of population mismanagement and disproportionate growth
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Can India become the world’s third biggest economy?
Modi predicted that India would overtake Japan and Germany
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Malaria, dengue and Covid19
Pakistan has reported 3.4 million cases of malaria from January to August 2022
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What’s eating Gwadar
The road infrastructure, at least along the coastline, and the hospitality industry have come a long way
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Why strong institutions are necessary for economic growth
What determines productivity and investment climate in a country like Pakistan?
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No end to instability
Economic stability and growth cannot be achieved without first ensuring political stability
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Digital platform work in Pakistan
Digital platforms have found ingenious ways to offer goods and services to global consumers
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Biden’s diplomatic nuclear faux pas
US President brought up Pakistan’s nuclear programme with shockingly undiplomatic language
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Continuing US quest for an ally in South Asia
Pakistan, once a major non-NATO ally, has doled out great sacrifices in the US global war on terror
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The brewing crisis in education
Over-ambitious parents, mostly compensating for their own failures in life, overburden kids with academic rigours
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How would the most dangerous nation look like?
Terrorism is defined as calculated use of violence for achieving goals that are political and ideological in nature
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Pharmaceutical downfall
The healthcare budget must always be flexible enough to cope up with such untoward happenings
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Pasteurised milk essential to attain SDGs
Development has many facets. Provision of food is one. The provision of safe food is another
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Rule of law or a fragile state
The new wave of terrorism has created a sense of insecurity across K-P as armed groups move freely
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The Don Quixotes of our times
Let’s try to make out why people are still turning out to be Quixote when his age is long gone
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President Biden’s latest outburst
The comments were also a reaffirmation of Biden’s frustrations with a rising China and Pakistan’s relationship with it
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IEA under Taliban: uneasy peace and economic challenges
They keep asking: why do the US and its European allies then single out Afghanistan for human rights?
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Why is it difficult to sell climate change story of our flood?
Pakistan’s response to this flood and future climate change events should be to address its own behaviour first
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Sovereignty or servitude: nation at the crossroads
Pakistan cannot afford to procrastinate the decades-old ambivalence between sovereignty and servitude
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BRI leads through GDI and GSI
China is perceived to be a revisionist state attempting to challenge the prevalent world order steered by USA
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Dignity for the living, and the dead
The fact that the system does not work is no surprise — the harder question is: how does one make it work?
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Women’s situation in two hotspots
Cultural mores, society preferences and increasingly interpreted religion determine how society treats their women
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Algocracy and the future of democracy
Algocracy turns democracies into authoritarianism through political engineering, bots and extreme political ideologies
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Identity politics and its discontents
The fixation around ‘lived experiences’ today, is in many ways, a form of egotism
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Dissecting Biden’s statement
Imran Khan has cashed in on Biden’s statement as he has already come down hard on the PDM government
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In praise of failure
Had there been no failures, the world would have been entangled within the blind streets of stagnation
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Happiness vs contentment vs passion
The obvious answer is moderation but moderation is joyless