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Local governments: one step forward, two steps back
Cricket and the English language are not the only legacies of colonial rule that we love
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Tale of Pakistan’s entrepreneurship spirit
Such ventures have largely been necessity driven in Pakistan, limiting their potential
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Community-driven: Bhalwal contributes viable business model of drinking water
It provides clean and metered drinking water with affordable tariffs
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Why not budget for books?
Some may term public libraries a luxury for a country like ours. But I do not agree with these arguments
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Pakistani society averse to entrepreneurship
Value addition in existing small businesses, new start-ups need of the hour
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The rise of the robots
The rise of robots with in-built emotion sensors and artificial cognition to maintain intimate relations
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Public sector companies: Time to demand transparency in national assets
Annual performance data should be shared with parliament, citizens
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Underperforming board rooms of public sector firms
Boards are full of friends of politicians, bureaucrats who lack professional capability
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Load-shedding: Power sector governance - a lost hope
Politics of clientelism, lagging technical and managerial skills holding sector back
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The tale of our cities
Elite housing societies in our cities are like islands where residents enjoy all the luxuries of the world