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  • Manufacturing strides

    For reasons more than many, countries around the world see China as a model for progress

  • After the Senate vote

    Meanwhile, one positive that normally comes from election losses is introspection

  • Prison reforms

    Poor prisoners face harsh conditions in jails while rich and influential inmates get all comforts

  • Covid blow to PSL

    Covid penetration into the bio-secure bubble raises questions whether its conditions were not followed

  • Corruption and punishment

    In most developing countries, funds allocated for development, find their way into offshore bank accounts

  • GLOF alert

    Melting glaciers not only pose a threat to the environment but even all nearby localities are at grave risk

  • Sindh Assembly drama

    Watching brawls in parliament has always been a guilty pleasure, PTI MPAs in Sindh gave us a naya twist this week

  • No open ballot!

    The court’s opinion is likely to have implications for the government

  • The education conundrum

    A complete closure would result in a significant learning loss, while reopening would entail a high risk

  • The wrong lessons learned

    One hopes that wisdom will prevail at some point given the stakes attached to any tensions between India and Pakistan

  • Circular debt monster

    Circular debt remains the biggest of the seven challenges facing the power sector in the country

  • PM’s visit to Sri Lanka

    Last Thursday, Imran concluded his maiden visit to Sri Lanka as the Prime Minister of Pakistan

  • FATF grey list: no exit yet

    Pakistan has been in the FATF clutches since 2008 and has paid a significant economic price

  • Another minor girl

    At least 11 rape cases are reported to the police in Pakistan every day

  • LoC truce deal

    The agreement shows the importance of keeping lines of communication open even when relations are tense

  • Implementing Police Order 2002

    The fact is that both the criminal and civil justice systems need reforms without any further loss of time

  • NCOC decision

    Ease in restrictions in the country is happening at a time when Covid vaccination process has just begun

  • Hamza Shehbaz’s release

    Hamza’s threatens to reignite the battle of political narratives within the PML-N

  • Child labour and pandemic

    It is easy to make laws, but their implementation is probably difficult

  • France’s new law

    French President let the cat out of the bag quite early when he mentioned Muslims in the context of the law

  • Ban on corporal punishment

    The bitter truth is that cases of child abuse are increasingly surfacing especially during the pandemic

  • Work from home

    Issues of fair wages and fringe benefits affect the digital economy similarly as they exist under non-digital economy

  • The January 9 blackout

    It is of vital importance to identify the underlying causes that led to the human error

  • Killing of aid workers

    Pakistan’s strategy in the war against terrorism has been to “clear, hold, build and transfer”

  • Scholarship scheme

    Bureaucratic red tape and official lethargy might be one of the causes of the unsatisfactory state of affairs

  • IIOJK guided tour

    Instead of addressing these concerns, Modi’s mob is drawing further ridicule by filing cases against foreign activists

  • Hesitancy and AIDS

    The tendency of people to dangerously delay proper treatment for various diseases is causing many avoidable deaths

  • Bye-elections

    PTI needs to focus on controlling price hike and providing at least some relief to the people before it gets too late

  • Transgender rights

    Transgender community is one such group that is constantly harassed and at even killed, simply for being different

  • Digitising a dinosaur

    Pakistan Post’s position in the market, its access to resources and overall reach is unparalleled

  • A familiar feeling

    It has been 11 years since the last award was finalised and six since the term of that award expired

  • Vaccine inequity

    It has become a challenge for poorer countries to protect populations from the pandemic

  • Ignorance of the law

    Experience shows that even governments and lawmakers seem to be ignorant of laws

  • Covid vaccination

    We must remember that vaccine doses earmarked through Covax are not enough to even cover the over-65 population

  • The climbing legacy

    Even though the mountains have now embraced him forever, he has given Pakistan a legacy that we all can be proud of

  • The PSL-6

    That PSL has been a great multi-dimensional success story goes without saying

  • RDA and rising remittances

    The government also needs to advertise the scheme in a proper manner so as to extract its full benefits

  • Another mining accident

    Media has to play an important part in highlighting mining accidents but so far it has only been disappointing

  • IMF is back

    These measures are likely to make life difficult for the common man as well as the business community

  • Amnesty and climate activist

    What the Modi regime is doing is: “Terrorise one to silence one thousand.”

  • Sharif’s passport

    The government may well fear that the rejection of an Interpol warrant would serve as vindication for Nawaz

  • Withdrawal warning

    While US, Nato cite uptick in violence as reason to extend their stay, we can't ignore that it takes two to tango

  • Shortage of public buses

    Motorcycle rickshaws are filling the gap created due to the unsatisfactory state of public transport

  • Brexit baggage

    UK can only hope that talks under way to establish understanding on financial services end well for London

  • Trump ‘not guilty’

    Republicans hid behind false technicality to protect the man who remains the face of their party from being convicted

  • Arsenic content in water

    A lethal combination of corruption, complacency and negligence has produced the present sorry state of affairs

  • Reset Earth

    We cannot, at any cost, undermine the damage that the environment has incurred over the past decade

  • Scramble for vaccines

    Tackling the raging coronavirus pandemic must be global collaborative undertaking

  • Per capita debt burden

    Per capita debt stood at Rs175,000 at the end of last fiscal year, an increase of 46%, or Rs54,901, on every citizen

  • Vulnerable in Yemen

    Nearly half the population of Yemen is now acutely food insecure, with 2 million facing crisis levels of hunger