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Let’s stop promoting corruption in Pakistan’s universities
The current assessment and incentive scheme has bred a rat race for fake publications and supervision of junk theses.
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The water car fraud
Agha Waqar Ahmad’s ‘water kit’, if one believes science to be right, simply cannot work.
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How to spot the crackpot — pseudoscience in Pakistan
Bogus science is rising everywhere. A reason for that science behind everyday stuff is now more involved than before.
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Lal Masjid: rewarding an insurrection
Once again, Pakistan is showing its helplessness in the face of those who carry guns and bombs.
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A half win for science
Why won’t Pakistanis donate their eyes, kidneys, hearts, and livers after death?
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Let us become — proudly — bayghairat
A curse upon honour! It brings to a nation nought but militarisation, conquest, conflict, and the pain of war.
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Free laptops is not the answer. What is?
A digital utopia cannot be constructed on a shaky educational base such as ours.
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Americans and Saudis: hands off Pakistan’s pipeline please!
It is time for US to get real & know that countries will pursue their goals rather than those preferred by Washington.
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When Manmohan Singh comes to Islamabad
There are many issues but here are the top five on which progress is both necessary and, more importantly, possible.
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Why Karachi burns again and again
Those who breed like flies die like flies.