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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
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As the world is getting closer to Armageddon…
When the world will cease to exist because of the melting of Arctic and Antarctic, the war in Ukraine will not matter
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Nightmares never end
For our country, even the IMF’s recommended policies which the experts call ‘shock therapy’ are not working
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Child maltreatment
Pakistan is ranked amongst the lowest countries in terms of child protection and safety
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A commoner’s view on SC elevations
The controversy surrounding the elevation of judges to the Supreme Court, has not left the common man unruffled
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Climate-driven displacements
Pakistan should create climate resilient towns within CPEC linked SEZs
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Afghanistan — still in post-US trauma
Isolating Afghanistan has been set up as the missionary work of the Pentagon, RAW since the day of the withdrawal
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Technology is the new economy
Russia is forcing the world to accept its geopolitical assertion using economic shock as a weapon
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Sugar daddies are back
Exports and remittances are falling and the external financing needs are the highest ever
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CTBT: a success story ready for completion
CTBT has created and sustained a norm against nuclear testing so powerful
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The real difference between US and Pakistan
In Pakistan, you can’t change your destiny. With the exception of a few outliers, such as cricket stars
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Resolvable problems of the Afghan government
The fact that this decades-long struggle would have never come to fruition without Pakistan’s steadfast, risky support
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All opportunists sans saviour
Pakistan is pretty much on the brink of collapse. The saviours are many, but they are also opportunists
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The world is changing — marrows and motifs
Unipolartity has transformed into multipolarity with many regional powers emerging on the political canvas
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Therapeutic jurisprudence of suicide
In past Mental health disciplines have helped in shaping new laws, the legal system, and the behaviour of legal actors
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Dealing with climate induced calamities
Most harm is done to the country and its people when leaders close their minds and are unwilling to embrace changes
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Russian military’s aggression — and retreat
Ukrainian infrastructure and industry have been decimated by reckless air bombardment and missiles onslaught
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Sand in the palms of time
The surprising thing about death is that we may see it coming but to an extent




































