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  • A flash of red

    We need to invest more in improving our museums, so that the future generations can learn more about their history .

  • Migrant workers

    A significant number of Pakistani workers are not regularised and they are now classified as illegal immigrants.

  • Counting bodies

    The impoverished fishermen should be given better protection and be respected both in life and in death.

  • Abuse of maids

    Pakistan needs to re-swing its moral compass and treat its children as something other than portable property.

  • Gutting the foreclosure law

    Access to finance is too important to economic progress to be gutted.

  • Human trafficking & illegal migration

    FIA should redouble its efforts to bust gangs of traffickers, whose heartless business, devious means ruin families.

  • Harsh reality of poverty

    The poor in Pakistan are not looking for a handout. They just want a ladder that they can climb for themselves.

  • Bhoja air crash report

    The pilots lacked training, there were procedural errors and the air worthiness of the plane raises questions.

  • The rich list

    Only those countries will succeed in future that have a desire to do whatever is necessary to grow their economies.

  • Missed targets

    Although Pakistan has made improvements in some areas, these are endangered by our galloping population explosion.

  • Frozen in time

    Reviving govt schools, converting them into institutions that offer quality education may hold key to our future.

  • Polio attacks

    As result of attacks on anti-polio teams, several parts of country have not been covered in campaigns in recent years.

  • Better news

    It is welcome to see the Commonwealth praising Balochistan govt for its holding of local bodies elections.

  • An astonishing victory

    It was a much-needed result and reminded fans as to why the team continue to be labelled mercurial.

  • Exiled no more

    To see 12,000 internally-displaced Bugti families being barred from proceeding to their hometown is heartbreaking.

  • Workers rights

    The new bill is to be warmly welcomed, but it is going to be in its implementation that its efficacy will be judged.

  • Teaching teachers

    Despite its longevity and citations of excellence, FCE is still affiliated with the University of Punjab (UoP).

  • Adding to sense of victimhood

    This fresh revelation documenting the extent of injustice only goes to heighten the province’s sense of victimhood.

  • Baby steps towards free trade

    The Nawaz Administration should build a political coalition that would push economic liberalisation forward.

  • Learning to share

    PML-N should not waste its time trying to achieve an impossible goal.

  • Lowari tunnel closure

    The tunnel — which is not yet fully completed — is a lifeline for Chitralis but it is vulnerable.

  • Checking corruption

    It is necessary that the full course be run and the accusations we have heard over and over again be investigated.

  • We need Manto more than ever

    Curricula at universities must include his writings and an active effort must be made to salvage his legacy.

  • Our education emergency

    Unless we effectively addresses education emergency in next 10 years, it is going to forever trail behind neighbours.

  • Working for peace

    We need to develop mechanisms, which can allow us to keep calm along the boundaries of our two nations.

  • The great hunger

    K-P will only fulfil its own food needs when government devises a food security strategy — and that is a distant dream

  • Communicating refusal

    In 2013, 54,918 children were denied vaccination by their parents.

  • Attack in Peshawar

    The blast also reflects the weakness of the state with respect to the high moral ground given to militant forces.

  • Unsafe flight

    We may be pleasing our Arab guests, but we are allowing our own ecology and wildlife to be ravaged ruthlessly by them.

  • Criminal politics

    The acts of Khetran must not go unexamined and the identities of those helped by him must be uncovered.

  • Unsafe roads

    Dump trucks seem to be involved in a number of such accidents and steps must be taken to regulate their movement.

  • Conflicts of interest

    Having a person who has bought a company from govt on a board that has final say on sale of companies is problematic.

  • On a whim

    While it is within its right to shuffle top mandarins, the exercise should be dictated by merit, justifiable needs.

  • Long wait

    It is unfortunate that the attitude of governments in Lahore and Karachi is preventing the handing down of power.

  • Deadly birds

    International flights go in and out of BBIA, and an aircraft coming down may impact a densely-populated urban area.

  • Same old mistakes

    The administration’s current policies will likely accelerate the pace at which foreign currency leaves the country.

  • Line of action

    The right has dominated the narrative for too long and concerted efforts must be made to change this.

  • Development agenda

    Nawaz Administration should continue projects that are being run well, even if they do not mesh with its own agenda.

  • Battlefield Karachi

    Karachi is a city out of control of both the forces of law and order and civil governance.

  • Deliberate misstatements

    There have been reports that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is unhappy with Mr Dar’s performance.

  • Recognising our heroes

    There are people in the country willing to give up their lives to stand up to violent extremists.

  • A needless ban

    The government needs to take a reality check regarding the internet.

  • A man worthy of being called ‘shaheed’

    They finally got him on January 9, and the authorities need to quickly understand the gravity of this tragedy.

  • Road deaths

    Of course, all road accidents cannot be averted.

  • Confusion in the education sector

    This state of ambivalence is casting its baleful influence on key initiatives in the sector.

  • Protecting our children’s future

    Indeed, Aitizaz will live as a hero forever, but it is a pity that our children have to fight this war.

  • Surging intolerance

    Those carrying out these killings must be caught and put away and we hope made an example out of.

  • Women of influence

    There are more women in the workplace and in higher education than ever before.

  • Saudi mission

    Assertion from Saudi foreign minister that he was merely on ‘friendly visit’ to Pakistan does not carry much weight.

  • A complete demolition job

    Destroyed by pace and out-batted by sheer class, England were left searching for answers.