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Rethinking election strategies
18th Amendment has been an important milestone inmconstitutional history of Pakistan
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Mystical galaxy of diverse abilities and supportive constellations
Moon symbol of glamour, radiance, yet belittles for its inability to gleam independently
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Kissinger: what he meant for China and the world
I read work of Kissinger a lot and he helped me in making sense of world in which we live
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Bhittai and Sindh
There are a few to whom history owes lasting debt for gracing its annals with their presence
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COP28 is an opportunity if we all play our part
Regardless of which country you look at in world, one crisis is evident everywhere: climate crisis
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Why is ‘authoritarian’ BRI gaining traction against hybrid initiatives?
China has smartly picked up key sectors where it could invest its resources
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Anatomy of paragraph writing
Paragraph is a metaphoric sandwich: two pieces of bread
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Using difficulty
Folk wisdom has been telling us for a long time what to do in a bad situation
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Moral clarity: idealism and resistance
I ponder what meaning of resistance is when you feel that you live in an unfair world
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Make companies pay for climate change
What world instead needs is an evident resolve to compel big emitters, be they in public sector or private sector
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Why sink in our own sewage?
Pakistan dumps 99% raw municipal sewage and industrial effluent into sea and other water bodies
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When demons hold you back
Lack of political stability over the last seven and a half decades counts as persistent demon
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Unveiling dyslexia: hidden struggles
Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that primarily affects reading and writing skills
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Reviving the foundations
PPP with a slogan of Roti, Kapra aur Makan is still as relevant as it was more than five decades ago
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Recent conflicts, multipolarity and international relations
Dead children of Gaza also announce the death of the Jewish power and influence worldwide
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The Chinese century and the fate of India
China is not going to surpass the United States as the largest economy of the world but rather it already has
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5G and the need for prudent decision-making
Pakistan’s digital ecosystem set to expand into a new realm, resulting in economic development and growth.
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State is meaningless sans purpose
Our 76 years are a witness that we have had to endure a whole baraat of thieves in the form of rulers
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Let action speak louder than words
Provision of adequate climate finance for implementing adaptation and mitigation is essential
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The generational divide
Countries, like individuals, only progress and move ahead when their leaders adhere to the basics of serving
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Bilawal and predatory mindset
As far morality or principles, the elite’s mindset knows no limits — neither depths nor shame
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From riches to rumbles: Yemen environment crisis
Despite being one of the most resource-rich countries in the region, it finds itself trapped in a distressing paradox
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Will severing diplomatic relations with Israel work?
The only country which has taken a firm stance against Israel in the ongoing conflict over Gaza is Iran
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Hearing all voices
There are a whole host of issues on which student voices are not just important, they are absolutely essential
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Energy security through coal
With its 175 billion tons of coal at Thar, Pakistan is well-placed to meet its energy needs
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Gaza bombing: a successful denial or coercion failure?
There is no match between Hamas and IDF when it comes to aerial power
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Generational divide in the United States
Many of those who identify themselves as Asian-Americans are, in fact, born in the United States
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Politics of electables
Such a model underscores prevalence of patronage politics at constituency level
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Beyond level-playing-field
Evidently two largest parties are being treated differently
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Financial anxiety frustrates ability to pursue our potential
That’s what the modern day life treadmill tells us
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Great theorists and international politics
In today’s world it is just not the application of liberty and equality that is likely to transform the world
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The insidious threat to democracy
Democracy is castigated as an inefficient system
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Failure of hope?
Answer to long-held hopeless public hope lies in transferring national stakes to their real owners
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Real Axis of Evil
It is time for this duplicity to be exposed and this axis of evil recognised for what it is
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The cost of Palestine-Israel war for Western media
Those of us living in the Global South are constant victims of the Western political and media hegemony
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Bill Clinton’s vision: our aspiration
Amidst Pakistan’s election season, people really want leaders to focus on key principles
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The war of words — and visuals
The weaponisation of media, is an immediate menace to be wary of.
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The Afghan imbroglio
Over 3.5 million Afghans in the garb of refugees have upturned our social, economic and political matrices in KP
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Financing ‘loss and damage’
Ongoing assault on Palestinians, lingering conflict in Ukraine, will complicate efforts to curb climate change
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Oil as a weapon
Arabs in the MENA region should leverage their oil wealth in the Gaza-Israel War to call for a ceasefire
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Deportation drive targets all illegal aliens, not just Afghans
Repatriation of Afghans is a tit-for-tat response to Afghan government’s indecision to stop terrorism
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Israel takes down the world Jewry along
Saner voices in the World Jewry need to stand up and be counted
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Muslims must differentiate between Israel and the Jews
Israeli government is not the representative of Jewish community as a whole
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The two most dangerous countries in the world
West Bank and Gaza are bad enough, but Kashmir is the world’s most densely militarised zone
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Dynamics of sentence formation
We access this knowledge of language usage through (unconscious) acquisition or (conscious) learning
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Tormented by memories
No one is ready to answer how countless innocent lives were lost in the name of religion and nationalism
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Reform or rupture: a resilient economy for Pakistan
Pakistan must work towards building a resilient economy that deliberately chooses innovation and reform
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America’s ICS for Pakistan
Non-traditional security analysts would always argue that development of these imperatives could ease the pressure
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Repatriating illegal aliens
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghan refugees are returning to their homeland
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Forgotten Pakistani citizens languishing in Bangladesh
If Pakistan can accommodate millions of Afghan, why was it unable to bring back only 350,000 people from Bangladesh