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Water crunch
We are in dire need to diversify water resources
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A promising start?
'Pakistan is part of the solution rather than part of the problem'
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Sensitive taxes
The next decade is going to see Chinese interests in Pakistan grow exponentially.
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Fake security and Islamabad airport
These devices were first sold in the USA as golf ball detectors for $20 apiece and later as drug scanners
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A doctrine of impunity
May 14th 2018 is seen by some, but not all as the day when Israel transcended its own elastic norms
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No room at the inn
Moneeza managed to make the trip from Lahore to Delhi because her previously issued visa was still valid
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Wolves in sheep’s clothing
Unpacking the document we find that it is little more than a change of nameplates on office doors
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It’s all in the optics
There is a serial failure to effectively market externally aspects of national image that cast a positive light
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Peshawar labour laws at school
It is unfortunate that lawmakers took away the rights of employees
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Compensation principles
Airline has withheld financial compensation worth Rs5 million to each family of air crash victims
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An unstoppable Mafia
Much of the construction is close to the entrance of the airport
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May 12 investigations
the first person causing violent agitation should be stopped before carnage spreads
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The flying dinosaur
The very large dinosaur that is PIA has chosen the path of evolutionary failure
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Polio – the fight for reason
Just as it seems that one final push will take the nation over the line to be polio-free another rock appears
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Ending speculation over polls
There are no technical or legal reasons for postponing the election
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Tilting the scales
It would be quite handy to have loyalists as law officers during the tenure of the caretaker government
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Electoral upset in Malaysia
Malaysia and Pakistan- the two countries are very different though both Muslim-majority
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Bombers redux
We report that once again girls’ schools in the North Waziristan agency have been attacked
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A broken pact
The torrent unleashed by Trump’s decision will take some time to subside
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Incarceration beyond capacity
Speedy delivery of justice should be adopted
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Reducing the porosity
Pakistan is a safer place today as a result of these efforts
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Slippery customers
It is difficult to find much by way of sympathy for the non-filers.
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Keeping it sweet
Pakistan’s antitrust regulator has proposed a set of measures to overhaul the sugar industry
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Schmoozing the bear
The swing towards Russia has also to be seen in the context of the Pakistan relationship with Saudi Arabia
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Dreadful consequences
The winner in that event were the extremists who in reality held the reins the minute they sat down
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Blue-sky education
Construction of a metro-bus system is a mere mote in the eye, inconsequential
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Reforms and clocks
None of the detainees were ever presented before a court
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Reconfiguring not required
Rouhani promised also to counter any decision the US leader intended to take against Iran
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Triangular interests
Kabul has suffered major terrorist attacks as has Pakistan, the most recent one being in Attock
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The roster of death
Miners are risking both life and limb as they perform their daily tasks
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CPEC as part of national agenda
In the past, the federal government had been quick to shoot down any suggestion of a thorough assessment
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A cautious optimism
Almost 30kms of the Afghan border has been fenced to attempt to stop unauthorised cross-border movements
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Karachi female infanticide
Edhi Foundation found 72 bodies of female babies buried in garbage cans or abandoned elsewhere
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Post-Cold War logic!
Expediency rather than ethics continues to be the controlling force that governs interstate relations
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Storms in India
Unfortunately, India’s rapid development has come at a price
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High inflation era beckons
Inflationary pressures have made themselves apparent ahead of the implementation of budgetary measures
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No room for more ministers
Good citizenship, after all, does not revolve around party loyalty
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Beef with the BRT
The authorities must accelerate work on the BRT so that districts can return to normalcy
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Water as a weapon
Pakistan has every right to forcefully pursue Indian violations of the trans-boundary water management agreement
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Youth bulge challenges
An overwhelming number of young people (77 per cent) drop out of educational institutions due to financial reasons
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The value of people’s security
Islamabad must offer better pay scales for the CTF to remain functional
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Stronger shield needed in Quetta
Not a single suspect has been arrested in connection with the Hazara killings so far
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The business of dishonesty
There has to be an end to the culture of cronyism that has so eroded the quality of the civil service
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Surviving the heat
Policymakers must therefore get people in vulnerable areas to face up to deadly and stronger heat spells
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Housekeeping money
One might wonder exactly what it is that the PM office is engaged in that requires such an increase in personnel
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Short-changing FATA
Fata have been deprived, and possibly deliberately, of what is rightfully its allocation of funds
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An under-utilised resource
From fishermen to livestock farmers, the focus must be on meeting the demands of the industry
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Diplomatic immunity and road safety
Responsibility for the first incident is clear and unequivocal, for second investigation yet to be released
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A flexing of muscles
There is nothing within the 11 bullet points that a sane person would disagree with but — water never gets a mention
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Illegal occupation
Most of the occupied buildings remained in the service of anything but the development of women