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  • Deconstructing inequality

    Poverty has been rising and rising, and the rate of malnourishment has skyrocketed in recent years

  • Case for castration

    It is time to make rapists have the bitter aftertaste of their monstrous deeds

  • Covid-19: on the rise again

    A lockdown will spell an economic and social doom

  • Babar, the skipper

    A skipper should be an automatic choice, his selection must not be in doubt so that he does not become a liability

  • Tackling stunting

    In the country, now 38% children are stunted. This figure for Sindh is depressingly high at 50%

  • Billionaires in parliament

    More than half of the 12 self-admitted billionaires in the National Assembly are members of the ruling coalition

  • Biden and Afghanistan

    The good news is that this might not be a deal-breaker for the Taliban

  • Skewed subsidies

    The PM gave instructions to take steps for rationalsation of subsidies

  • Timely action

    The ‘Karachi incident’ had left the Sindh police force ‘demoralised and shocked’

  • Gandapur comments

    Gandapur needs to learn to keep his mouth shut until he learns how to conduct himself like a public servant

  • A potential vaccine

    Further testing is yet to reveal how long the immunity from the vaccine will last

  • To have or have not

    The government is taking measures to control prices

  • Black sheep in police

    It is heartening to note that the police are swiftly proceeding to weed out the black sheep from their own ranks

  • Politics of kindness

    Ardern won our hearts with her composed, empathetic response to the white supremacist terrorist attack

  • Cracks in PDM

    But again difference of opinion exists within the Maulana’s own party over Nawaz’s no holds barred rhetoric

  • Karachi: deplorable transport system

    It is about time that authorities worked to rebuild and redesign the transport system of Karachi piece by piece

  • President Joe Biden

    Trump refuses to accept the result and files lawsuits against it

  • Water pollution

    People have become so used to consuming unsafe water that now they might fall ill if they consumed safe water

  • Fresh Covid curbs

    The deadly virus first emerged in the country in February this year and hit a peak in mid-June

  • Value of life

    The Sindh Wildlife Department, along with police traced and arrested the man who manhandled the dolphin

  • Dialogue with EU

    Key human rights issues for the EU remain Pakistan's use of the death penalty and the “misuse” of the blasphemy law

  • Problem of a single story

    During the Vienna attack and other such earlier incidents, Muslims have helped save lives

  • Disgruntled allies

    However, the PM must realise that most of the demands put forward by his coalition partners are pretty genuine

  • Elitist of the elite

    Dar is calm and composed — one of the foremost traits of an umpire that enables him to handle pressure on the field

  • Virtual banking

    We would hope that new companies also offer innovative products rather than merely filling a void

  • Declining cotton output

    Pakistan’s import of cotton has steadily been increasing over the past decade

  • Fire safety laws

    We all aspire to utopia, but the prevailing situation shows that we are moving towards dystopia

  • Close race

    Things, however, seem to be happening just as Bernie Sanders had predicted

  • Rising dengue cases

    There is nothing surprising about this trend because in the beginning of winter season

  • Vienna attacks

    The synagogue has great significance to the local Jewish community

  • Spoilers at work

    Incidents of violence are clear evidence of the growing IS footprint in Afghanistan

  • Smog and Covid-19

    Most industries in the province are operating in violation of environmental laws

  • Peddling lies

    PM Narendra Modi is the latest to use Chaudhry’s words to sling mud at Pakistan

  • Fifth province

    The region had been kept in constitutional limbo for this long, giving rise to a sense of alienation among its people

  • Knowledge economy

    Pakistan’s lack of interest in investing in R&D over the years is inexplicable in this high-tech age

  • Bureaucrat ‘mayor’

    The new administrator sounds sanguine and hopes to bring about positive change in the metropolis

  • Days after explosion

    With no help from the government for the victims so far

  • The cost of medicine

    The concerned stakeholders need to realise that this is as much a humanitarian crisis as it is an economic one

  • Good news for expats

    Many workers have been stranded in the country just because their sponsor would refuse to stamp their exit visas

  • Eat the rich

    The average income in Pakistan is likely somewhere between Rs220,000 and Rs300,000 per year

  • Food prices

    This game of cornering essential commodities, artificial shortages and high prices are not difficult to perceive

  • Return of Covid curbs

    It will be pretty challenging for the authorities to get the prescribed SOPs implemented by the people

  • Cricket: good news

    England and South Africa are also considering cricket tours to the country

  • Unprotected sanitary workers

    Many lives before would have been saved had they been provided with means to protect themselves from poisonous gases

  • Attack at IIOJK demography

    The change proves beyond any doubt that India has no intention of following the will of the Kashmiri people

  • Nearing US elections

    The irony is that Trump himself is being investigated for tax fraud

  • E-Khyber

    While still in its adolescent stage, the initiative needs to be made multi-dimensional

  • Another blast

    We all should realise that we are in a cauldron of enmity; there is no room for complacency

  • OLMT on tracks

    Such a gigantic project runs the risk of turning into a white elephant

  • Offensive remarks

    People in Muslim countries are already putting their money where their mouth is — boycotts of French food products