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Gulf-Pakistan collaboration: AI offsets for genuine climate action
Quick fixes must give way to genuine action
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Caring for more than one
Each one of us should examine why we do not care
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A pro-people manifesto?
Best outcome Pakistan can hope for from upcoming elections is democratisation
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Lack of focus on real issues
Feudal, tribal, authoritarian and corrupt tendencies prevent leadership from focusing on issues to transform Pakistan
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Education and enlightenment
Appraisal shows that education and enlightenment have a correlative and reciprocal relationship
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CSS exam: reforms needed
Annual competitive examinations conducted by FPSC illuminate persistent challenges
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A divided Muslim world
Large Muslim populations reacted to operation being conducted by Israel in Gaza Strip have shown little unity
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Race to the Centre
Since end of dictator Zia-ul Haq’s era, Pakistan has been dominated by a two-party system featuring PML-N and PPP
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South Asia’s missile madness and the way forward
Among nine nations possessing nuclear weapons, only India, Pakistan share a 3000 km long contiguous terrain
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A marriage without love
Election without real choices is a lot like marriage without love
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Survival of the unfittest
Theory had caused existential and religious crises in Victorian England
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History — first time a tragedy, second time a farce
Understanding history as a tragedy for nations of global south is easy
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Enhancing gender diversity in Muslim countries
Women in Muslim countries today have responsibility to amplify voices of women in our societies
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AI wars begin
Our neighbours became space-faring nations and we kept fighting
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Global health security: can Pakistan show leadership?
Pakistan has decided to hold first Global Health Security Summit in Pakistan
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Need to ensure fair polls under an unjaundiced political process
Fingers are crossed for February 8 general elections
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How the US has saved Adani
Adani has emerged unscathed from a slew of alleged wrongdoings
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Yemen upends US naval strategy
Since WWII, US has upheld Mahan’s spirit of ruling over world’s oceans
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Pension reforms 2023
Government’s annual pension bill includes increasing number of pensioners
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What’s behind EU’s newest charm offensive against Africa
Europe’s strategy has changed, but neither whereabouts nor objectives
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Requiem for a mentor
Ambassador Khokhar was equally steadfast, principled in dealings with his own leadership
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Self-care: the transformative action for working women
Working women will undoubtedly feel extra pressure due to societal responsibilities placed on them
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Year 2023 — the world away from Pakistan
Another year passed with Pakistani politics still roiling in gutter, debate without substance
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Pakistan — an Israel without America
Many people like to draw parallels between states of Pakistan and Israel
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Women leaders in politics
While these trailblazers have made significant progresses, challenges persist
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How the corrupt rule
After centuries of experience, world came to conclusion that only clean and transparent system can maintain state
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The way ahead
Despite efforts in past, government has failed to attract right people to stay on in country
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Good governance an antidote to Baloch insurgency
Jobs on merit, political inclusion and resolute counter-insurgency campaign against irreconcilable elements is key
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Growing concerns over economic health
Pakistan’s prime source of foreign exchange is remittances
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The old school
Students’ relationship with their former institutions is special bond
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Pivotal role of courtroom technology in speedy disposal of cases
Cutting-edge courtroom technology stands as transformative force in reshaping legal systems globally
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Myopic leadership and Election 2024
Myopic mindset is also reflection of judiciary’s failure to render justice and implement its decisions
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2024: major challenges
Year 2023 was tumultuous for Pakistan; country remained in grips with multiple challenges
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Plunging into the abyss of financial catastrophe
NEPRA has been dropping bombshells, approving raise demanded in electricity prices
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Mother State
Pakistan seems to be unable to provide basic health, education to all her children of republic
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Tensions working their way into the American ties with India
United States is building its relations with India to counter growing power of China
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A general selection?
ECP has finally come up with schedule for general election
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Non-state actors and the new form of warfare
Rise of non-state actors is not a new phenomenon in 21st Century or even before that
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2023: the warmest in 174 years
All main culprits in climate change saga have continued with their business as usual
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The forgotten power of pluralism
Businessmen of success of this period were called ‘Robber Barons’ because they were experts at creating monopolies
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Nice is good
This year has been nothing more than what Shakespeare called “a tale told by an idiot”
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Truth behind the disappearance of Baloch citizens
Balochistan has been in news for a pervasive, volatile issue of disappeared people
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Return of Covid-19
Singapore reported more than 50,000 cases of Covid-19 in first week of Dec
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5G: hype vs reality
Global debate on perceived potential versus actual value delivery by 5G has recently intensified
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R2P and the Israeli attack on Palestinians
Despite lip-service to a global consensus on averting atrocities, we still live in a world where might is right
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‘Al Aqsa Storm’ reshapes the Middle East
Operation launched by Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Gaza has broader strategic implications for Israel, US
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2023 — lessons
Last 30 months or so have been of extreme turmoil. Both, economically and politically
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To study literature is a different phenomenon
Students of English language, literature have to keep themselves abreast of all current, old literary movements
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Pakistan’s population harvest in 2023
Population agenda in Pakistan for year 2023 involved three main aspects
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War on terror — Pakistan’s forgotten story
Two attempts at dialogue with TTP under aegis of Haqqani Group in 2022 have failed