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Our gaping gender disparities
Women are already bearing the dual burden of household management and ensuring household survival.
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Pakistan’s aging population
Aging presents a range of socio-economic challenges for individuals, families, and societies at large.
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Agribusiness versus poor farmers
There is little evidence of attempts to bolster indigenous seed stocks, and prevent potential monopoly of GM seeds.
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Another problematic index
It was quite strange seeing it rank 16th among 151 countries on the World Happy Planet Index for 2012.
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Address our minorities’ concerns
Silent Muslim majority in the country should cast aside its indifference, take serious notice of growing intolerance
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Third consecutive flooding disaster
The performances of both, government and donor agencies, in terms of disaster management, leave much to be desired.
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Workers’ safety and rights issues
The Baldia Town inferno has brought into focus a lingering obliviousness to occupational safety, labour right issues.
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Mixing humanitarian work and espionage
Growing official mistrust of NGOs will certainly not make relief and other forms of development work easier.
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Is hiring children as domestic workers okay?
We need a zero tolerance approach towards children under the age of 14 being subjected to work.
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The PTI’s recipe for the economy
The governance and institutional components of the PTI’s Vision immediately bring some questions to mind.