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Let’s go to space, but slowly
Space science is interdisciplinary in nature and lies at the interface between engineering and the sciences
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Why don’t they eat cake?
Struggling to make ends meet, many Pakistanis still live below the poverty line
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Can Trump afford war in Middle East?
US military has been mulling an array of response options and bombing missile-launching sites in areas outside Iran
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Lawyers as scientists
When students do pursue a legal education, they are continuously taught that the law exists in a vacuum
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The (not so) hot millions!
Power begets money; and money gives rise to the urge to grab power
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‘Best speech’, but what next?
Not words but how the PM translates his words into action will determine his legacy and success on Kashmir
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World’s dirtiest city
Not much has changed in Karachi nearly 50 years on
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Will the young save the planet?
As a 16-year-old Swedish girl addresses world leaders at UNGA in New York
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Before the flood
Rising sea levels, intensifying droughts and unprecedented increase in wildfires
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Imran at UNGA
He warned the world in stark terms of a bloodbath in the state under illegal Indian occupation
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Mind the gap: gender equality and mobility in Pakistan
Poor and inefficient urban planning hinders people’s mobility and women are the primary victims
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Blocking Modi’s Hitlerism
The balance between legitimacy and power is extremely complex
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After the speech
The fourth part compensated for the first three ones
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India's actions in occupied Kashmir inching towards the unthinkable: FM Qureshi
Qureshi blames Modi’s government for gaslighting the international community into normalising India’s decision
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When paranoia is justified
Paranoia exists also to ensure that you are never caught by surprise
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Trump’s sweet talk
Fails to utter a single word of sympathy for the 7 million Kashmiris under lockdown for over 50 days
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Agricultural growth under Naya Pakistan
Leaders of the ruling PTI try to defend their underperformance, duly or unduly
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‘Houston, we have a problem’
Modi will invest in occupied Kashmir but only after it is Saffronised, or on the verge of it
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Tenure of SBP governor
Increase is directly linked with the vexed question of ensuring independence of Central Bank from political meddling
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‘Howdy, Modi!’ in Houston
Pakistan should make peace with the fact that on issues such as Kashmir, it will not receive much support from the US
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Kashmir: emerging as India’s West Bank?
Is it possible for India to replicate the Israelisation of West Bank as Indianisation of the Valley?
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Gaining moral high-ground on Kashmir crisis
PM Imran continues to position himself as the spokesman for Kashmiris, aiming to highlight their humanitarian plight
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Using forest inspection bungalows for tourism
Instead of snapshot actions, tourism ministries should devise comprehensive policies for promoting sustainable tourism
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Curbs on Iran and inflating US oil exports
US sanctions severely impact Iran's export-reliant economy and fuel people’s miseries
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Fear and loathing in Houston
The Indian-Americans support the right to freedom of association, but only in America
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Old medicine in a new bottle?
Improved water and sanitation could decrease more than 70% of infectious diseases in Pakistan
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The struggle for democratic consolidation
Clearly, many questions arise about neutrality and fairness of the accountability process
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Undermining the Federation: Threat to take over Karachi
Having such deep roots in the history of Karachi, the outburst was inevitable
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The mischiefs of ‘Howdy Modi’
No one is serious about taking bull by its horns
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We are living in Gotham
A lot has to be done by the police to rebuild a tarnished reputation and restore law and order
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Healing our social wounds
A Ruth Pfau, or an Edhi, comes once in a lifetime of nations — but we need them every day
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Kasur incidents and state’s response
A hard fact being the state's failure to respond to the dreadful threat of child abuse, rape and murder
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Putting the media on trial
But you’re still free — to lash out at the ruler’s opponents
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This is our problem
Climate change is not imagined, it is not a western creation
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The rodents have it!
Reportedly, several planes of Pakistan’s national airline were infested by rats
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The attack on Saudi oil infrastructure
The war that has sharpened the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran
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Pakistan’s three-way foreign policy challenge
Besides Kashmir, Pakistan also has to deal with instability in Afghanistan and fears of a conflict in the Middle East
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The culture of forced annexation
Thucydides had opined that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”
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Myths around Naya Pakistan’s economic performance
Improving macroeconomic indicators doesn’t mean everyday life will get better overnight or growth returns...
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Weapons of mass influence
Where are the adults when you need them?
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Kashmir looking up to Trump and UN General Assembly
President Trump has his work cut out
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Rebirth of the democratic impulse
In India too, a bitter, petty and vindictive impulse brought Narendra Modi into power
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Mental health: are we ignoring the warning signs?
The stigma associated with mental health has to go
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Humanity vs ego — whither Afghanistan
In the first six months of 2019, American and Afghan airstrikes killed and injured 519 people
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Neighbourhood on fire
It is now almost 50 days since IOK was pushed under a complete lockdown with some huge number of Indian soldiers
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Money and reform: the case of police
Amid public uproar against Punjab police’s dismal performance in recent weeks
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Pakistan’s female farm workers
As most existing labour laws do not address the plight of poor farmers
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Kashmir diplomacy
As the government does not seem to have any substantive and long-term plan of action
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How to pull Karachi from the brink?
As the financial hub has become a failed metropolis
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JUI-F campaign against the PTI government
The JUI-F has always used its social influence in these regions for political power

















































