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Covid-19 in Pakistan: The quintuple whammy
Pandemic will impact exports, FDI, remittances, imports and foreign debt
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Reviving urban economy in hard times
Efforts should be made to support informal economy along with bailouts for formal sector
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Pakistan's inflow of remittances under threat
Pakistan may lose significant amount as jobless expatriates return home
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Sugar commission report - what to do?
Market reforms will bring transparency, remove some of system’s ills
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Doctors fight on
Amid this proliferating pandemic, no stone should be left unturned to reduce transmissions and save lives
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A headless neighbour
History is a reminder that Pakistan has never allowed the region to be destabilised to the point of no return
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The pullout plan
Why negotiate when they can just win the war in a walkover
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Rethinking poverty
If history proves anything, it’s that too much exploitation will inevitably result in upheaval
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Periods don’t stop for pandemics
Covid-19 has brought the world to a standstill; however, the pandemic could not stop nature
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India’s two-front conundrum
2020 may be a different era but a replica of ’62 is in play
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India: resumption of follies
Can India afford to indulge in such a competition with China?
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Pakistan’s institutional decay
That the Karachi Airbus crash is a manifestation of the organisational failure of PIA cannot be gainsaid
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Fowl arrest
Irrational hatred leads to irrational thoughts
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The crash: who is responsible?
The pain of this incident is not a pain to be dealt with with a painkiller
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The public role
Nonchalance is one thing. Disdain another.
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Red tape and air crash
Perhaps, the page is small and people big
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Migrant workers: Victim of India’s uneven development pattern
Structural violence is a curse that people in Third World countries are forced to live with
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The future of warfare — India and Pakistan
“States monopoly over violence” will weaken
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A disaster was always in the making
If only the ones responsible were to take their jobs seriously before it is too late again
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Is South Asia drifting into another war?
The last time something like this happened was in 1962, and the results weren’t pretty
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2020 superheroes
For an army to win a war, support from various segments of society is a must
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Right to life for all
One of the bigger victories in this was freedom for the 30-year-old pachyderm Kaavan at the zoo
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Hats off to the cops!
Hats off to the cops!
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Falling back in love with politics
‘We did not have to be political’ became the hashtag of our state management
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Sugar inquiry report and govt’s accountability drive
The many pillars on which huge empires were built came down
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Technology for health
qual attention should also be paid to preventive measures against the coronavirus
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PM Imran, WEF and debt
Imran justified his lockdown easing by referring to the number of daily wagers and risk of starvation
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MPA’s death from virus
These are difficult times for all — more so for those who are in the frontline of fight against coronavirus pandemic
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Ceremonial governors or political agents
If an amendment to the Constitution is needed, this is the one
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The false myths of capitalism
Socialism and Keynesian-styled economic management have also been experimented with in many Western countries
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Social cohesion and community resilience in the face of Covid-19
Covid-19 crisis is threatening social cohesion within countries
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From Khunjerab to Gwadar: 69 years of concord, cooperation and connectivity
Pakistan and China are writing a new chapter in the storied history of our friendship through CPEC
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Did Ghani just sign his death warrant?
Ashraf Ghani should apply for asylum in India while he has the chance
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Indian interests and strategy in Afghan peace
To conclude, India and its proxies would burn their hands in the Afghan inferno if they don’t pay heed to Sita Ram
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Truth about Pakistan’s Covid-19 numbers
Honestly, no one can tell the actual number of cases in Pakistan
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India hanging on to a worn-out Afghan policy
US is desperate to shut down the war in Afghanistan and will broker no hurdle
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Combating locusts
Swarms of locusts made their way into Pakistan after harming crops in East Africa and Iran
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Border attacks
Unfortunately, diplomacy is not supposed to be easy
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Governor’s rule talk
Given the unprecedented times, the need for political harmony and national cohesion was never so desirable
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Herd immunity will not work
Bearing in mind the “herd immunity threshold” and factoring in the quantum of contagiousness of a disease
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Pakistan and severe medicine shortages
Covid-19 is a global health emergency and all developed nations are struggling to cope with the disease nationally
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Pakistan’s unique lax strategy
These new relaxations increase the responsibility of the people to adhere to precautionary norms more strictly
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Afghanistan: in the eye of the storm
The emerging image is that groups other than the Taliban are in the majority
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Health and education
This year too we should not expect much change because of global economic downturn caused by coronavirus pandemic
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Wheat supply
But the government has also suggested that price is the real issue
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SC judgment
Supreme Court order renewed debate on the justification of invoking Article 184(3) of the Constitution
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Honour killing
If a culture approves murdering victims, it is the culture that must die
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Coronavirus in Karachi jail
There are other ways to reduce the congestion in prisons
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Persecution and pandemic
International aid groups have been dreading this moment for months
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The 18th Amendment and the Supreme Court
The 18th Amendment is criticised for never being implemented