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Path to contended life
The desire for making oodles of money is at the forefront of the mind of almost every individual in our society
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Mess at the Tokyo Olympics
Pakistan fails to bring home any medals
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Global warming: the situation is worse than believed
IPCC report describes how human action had altered global environment at an “unprecedented pace”
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Faith and climate change
Islam or any other faith clearly reminds its followers to keep others safe from our bad actions
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Women rights under a Taliban rule
With Taliban on a roll, human rights — especially those concerning women — have come under a sharp focus
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Frustrated Indian and Afghan governments
The outside world still thinks that Pakistan is at the back of Taliban's rapid advance in Afghanistan
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The matter of sovereignty
Steady economic and military dependence on the West, made Pakistan incapable to protect its national interest
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Iqbal: a visionary for all times
The national poet and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan, known in the vernacular as Shair-e-Mashriq
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India creates new ‘realities’ in IOK
New Delhi starts redrawing the electoral boundaries in the occupied valley
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The secret to a tranquil life
Though mastering the exalted art of living isn’t plain sailing, its outcomes are ebullient and overwhelming
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Seventy-four
Great nations are built on the backs of many generations that die unrecognised
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Pakistan’s gender violence pandemic
It is about time for the Pakistani society to wake up to reflect on the toxic culture of misogyny
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Minimum wage, maximum rage
A gimmick that has found place in budget speeches for the past several years
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Chaos in the midst
Justice Mazhar's elevation by surpassing four senior judges of the SHC including the Chief Justice of the province
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Why is Pakistan a sporting laggard?
A moment of institutional decay which has spelt slow death of sports as an element of national identity
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Punjab’s unwieldy public sector governance
A defining element of public sector governance is the rapid proliferation of alternative institutional mechanisms
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Vox populi is noise
We are focused on what our peers think and in order to get them to like us, we are willing to go to any lengths
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Sharing power at the local level
Our leaders call to have a democratic system in Pakistan, but their efforts hardly match the clamour
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Taliban racial profiling and the US
Recent archives are full of notions like Taliban barbarism and cruelty
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Can resistance in Herat check Taliban’s march?
The cultural hub of Afghanistan, unlikely to easily succumb to a group that is rooted in the south and the east
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House help as heroes of Covid vaccination drive
A renewed interest in getting the jab since the govt decided to cancel sims and cut salaries
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Afghanistan: is world serious about rights violations?
US held the Taliban accountable for massacring dozens of civilians in Spin Boldak and termed the incidents war crimes
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Global race for supremacy
Powerful nations have peacefully competed or gone to war to attain regional & global dominance
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Insights from the sky
The nightlight satellite data in particular is quite useful in estimating non-farm economic activity
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Unequal Palestinian lives
We told the world that we were against injustice, against aggression, and because we cared for Palestinian lives
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What impedes our private sector
Pakistan has not been able to maintain or diversify industrial production structure as is done by comparable countries
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The New Quad — Pakistan’s breakthrough diplomacy
The New Quad geo-politically swings the pendulum in Pakistan’s favour
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Recognising life events
Today we are fortunate to have the technology that could bypass our biggest hurdle i.e. our colonial processes
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Discrimination at its worst
Pakistan and Bangladesh have been on the Red list since April 9
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The US contest with China
The deepening contest between China and the United States may have some unintended positive consequences for Pakistan
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When a phone call becomes an issue
The US side was only keen to discuss Afghanistan
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Selecting a CEO
Process of selecting an outsider is neither transparent nor based on merit
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Us versus them
Watching Olympics is all about learning the spirit of fighting, resilience and perseverance and the desire to win
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IK’s secret weapon to lift governance outcomes
All ministries have set 15,000 outcome-oriented performance targets for the next two years
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PML-N’s moment of truth
Back-to-back debacles faced by PML-N in recent past will have a major impact on its performance in 2023 elections
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New KMC administrator
Sindh govt has appointed Murtaza Wahab as KMC's new administrator; previous two unelected ones failed to deliver
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Anarchic means for peace
With all the ongoing conflicts, it is hard to imagine that we have achieved peace
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The BRI and Syria
China- Syria cooperation may be the UN’s last hope for amity in the war-torn country
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Religion and Science
It appears that behaviour and perhaps laws of nature change at every level
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Behold the wooden horse
If the Taliban take over Afghanistan, Pakistan will be subjected to a double whammy
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Kashmir ban gaya Pakistan
The head of the tabdeeli sarkar promises to hold two referendums in AJK
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Is Afghanistan nearing Balkanisation?
The two contending belligerents in Afghanistan hold off their areas under occupation
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Migrant pushbacks
Number of people in poorer countries compelled to move amid tumultuousness caused by varied form of conflict
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The unfolding Kashmir tragedy
On this day in 2019, India annexed the erstwhile Muslim majority state after annulling Article 370 of its constitution
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The wages of misplaced accountability
No actions despite two commissions formed on orders of the PM to identify the culprits behind the sugar and oil scams
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No enemies, no allies
The spoilers of peace in Afghanistan, are the same forces of disruption today that are thriving in chaos
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To build a community of health for all
In the face of the pandemic, the international community needs solidarity and cooperation more than ever
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Afghan ruling clique and the Afghan people
Over thirty years of continuous war with generations growing up under unending violence
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Political pandemic
Even after more than seven decades, the country is yet to meander through ‘its most crucial time’
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Time to revise SPPRA rules
To provide a step-by-step guideline for interested contractors and suppliers to engage in procurement activities



































