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The protest must be personal
There is light at the end of the tunnel – we as a nation can bring an end to terrorism sooner than we think if we make the battle personal. Public opinion is already changing – but not private opinion. So this conversation needs to enter homes now. If we continue shifting responsibility, the cycle will continue.
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Brands can save the country
I strongly believe that brands can do a better job in serving the needs of the people than politicians - which is why we conducted 'Brand Elections.'
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Five years of Napa
The so-called city of lights did have plays on and off before, but the establishment of Napa made the theatre movement what it is today – a series of full acts with no intervals.It has staged more than a dozen first-rate productions within two years. But the ratio of graduating students has decreased from batch to batch.
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Diego Maradonna: neither victim, nor hero
Thank God Diego Maradonna didn’t win the World Cup. A powerful notion that I have quite vocally mentioned in the past has been dispelled. It takes more than inspiration to win a World Cup. It takes organization and meticulous preparation. It is not a job that any layman can do. It is not a role that any unqualified ruffian can simply assume and achieve success because he believes in his team. It is more than that. Amen.
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8 questions you will be asked if you live in Peshawar
An introduction can be exasperating if you happen to live in Peshawar. Questions I am asked sometimes amuse me, and at other times make me wonder about how naïve some people can be. They include how come you speak Urdu, do you go out and are there Taliban in Peshawar?
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How to avoid hair salon drama
Most hairstylists in Pakistan tend to learn three or four basic haircuts and cut your hair according to the one they personally had fun learning. We live in a country where the literacy rate is low and the service industry, when it comes to fashion, seems like its run by drag queens. Thus, I decided to write the ultimate guide to deflecting the pain of trashy hair.
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Strengthening medico-legal evidence
Karachi has nine medico-legal centers in public sector hospitals with only 8 female medico-legal officers. For cases of rape there is no separate facility for examination and recording of such cases. There is no equipment or kits as required by the WHO guidelines for recording and storing evidence and a serious lack of awareness.
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Does Parliament care about fake degrees more than us?
For a week or two different clusters in the parliament have been criticising the media for revealing the issue of fake degrees and the incompetence of parliamentarians. But unfortunately it is also the media that has been debating problems and solutions of national economy more than our honored parliamentarians.
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Virtue, at what cost?
A marriage application form in Dubai may contain a humiliating tenet for women - declaration of virginity.
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Foolishly flashing forces
The police has recently been equipped with brand new 1000 and 1300 cc cars with the latest digital sirens