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Does Pakistan deserve Imran Khan?
What does the road from good intentions to actual change look like for the PTI and Naya Pakistan
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Planning for Naya Pakistan
PTI needs to pay attention to restructuring the prevailing planning machinery, architecture and processes
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R2P and its implications
R2P has now become part of the international vocabulary in discussing genocide, war crime
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Three takes from Elections 2018
Elections 2018 has been an enormous learning experience,but remedial action is needed before the Elections 2023
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Eradicating acid violence
Pakistan’s National Assembly passed ‘The Acid and Burn Crime Bill 2017’ in May 2018
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Audacity of dreams
Imran Khan inherits a badly broken system because of corruption, economic inequity, terrorism and overpopulation
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From Shopkins to slime
Another hazard joins the pantheon of things you really don’t want to step on in the night—slime
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How far would I go?
The losing parties have labelled the election as rigged by their favourite villains called the ‘khalai makhlooq’
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What if there were Meesha Shafis before Meesha Shafi?
When women complain, they are asked to modify their life, rather than get a confirmation that they were wronged
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Dawn of a new era or more of the same?
Pakistan needs to regain its respect and place in the community of nations
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Lessons for PML-N
Rigging or no rigging, the PML-N’s election campaign was flawed and the basics were not right
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Challenges before Kaptaan
Imran's life history, record, political struggle and social work shows, he is a fighter to the end
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Attracting diaspora investments
Imran Khan has declared overseas Pakistanis the country’s greatest asset and committed to get them to invest
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Wrong then, wrong now
Amir Liaquat Hussain earlier tweeted a photo-shopped picture of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Sherry Rehman
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Achieving the 100 Day Agenda
No efforts must be foregone by the PTI to reach out to the other parties
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Forgotten heroes
On the 4th of August Pakistan observes Police Martyrs Day
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Unabating violence in Balochistan
The ethnic-based conflict in Balochistan has kept the province volatile
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Imran Khan, the Patriot
This image would certainly help Imran to pursue his foreign policy towards India
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Crying for Karachi
Karachi pays the lion’s share of the country’s tax revenues and yet a trickle of what is collected is given back
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Imran Khan’s political rise: The context
The Turkish, Bangladeshi and Egyptian examples have many lessons for Imran Khan as he begins to run Pakistan
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She said, he said
As long as Khan delivers whatever he delivers, would that justify how he climbed up the ladder of power?
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Do optimists live longer?
Experts at the Mayo Clinic in the US State of Minnesota suggested that optimists somehow live longer
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A not so pluralistic India
86% of those dead in cow-related violence since 2010 are Muslims and 97% of the attacks took place after 2014
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Khan Sahib where are the women?
Pakistanis will not see their First Lady stand beside her husband when he takes the oath of prime minister
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Signs of Hope
Over 11,600 candidates vied for 849 national and provincial assembly seats
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CPEC: a reality, not a romance
CPEC is one of the six economic corridors envisioned under the One Belt One Road initiative for closer economic ties
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The Illusion of change
17 million people voted for PTI did so believing that their vote would shake the corrupt status quo
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Imran’s vision of Pakistan
Imran Khan envisions Pakistan as a humanitarian state in first speech
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A sad Umar!
The principal shareholder in the International Monetary Fund, the US, is out to dictate its terms vis-à-vis CPEC
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A revolutionary foreign policy
US would discourage any IMF bailout for Pakistan that benefits its Chinese creditors, says Pompeo
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Elections 2018: consequences of a single narrative
Successive negative storylines related to the elections have continued to appear all along during election campaigning
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Fixing our public institutions
Pakistan has now undergone a third round of consecutive democratically held elections
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Being Pakistani is not singular
Raza Rumi has published yet another book called, Being Pakistani
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What happened on the Election Day?
PPP has claimed that there was no point because the ballot boxes were rigged and not the forms
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The Where-the-hell-are-we tribe
There are a bunch of characters so used to being on seats of influence that they now find themselves unseated
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Western media’s bellyache with Imran Khan’s rise
Pakistan is described in a grim manner as an 'Islamic Republic with nuclear weapons'
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Foreign policy challenges and opportunities for the new govt
With the most seats in the NA, PTI is likely to form the government at the Centre as well as in K-P and Punjab
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Are Imran Khan’s policy goals realisable?
Imran Khan’s acceptance speech was laudable from many angles
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The cynicism of change
The subtle yet evident cynicism hidden in Imran Khan’s historic win remains a matter of much debate
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Vote for change
It has been an epic struggle in the political history of Pakistan, leading to the victory of PTI in the 2018 elections
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The winds of change
After 22 years of struggle Imran Khan has decisively reached the summit of Pakistan’s political mountain
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Start of Imran’s Innings
Imran Khan’s extempore victory speech marked an impressive start to his innings
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Hepatitis and blood transfusion safety
Hepatitis is a major public health challenge that requires urgent attention and response
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Building trust
The concept of trust, in the institutions, is what we need in post-elections Pakistan
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An open letter to Imran Khan
The following measures may bring Imran's dream of ‘new Pakistan’ closer to reality
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It’s the moolah, stupid!
Power begets money and money, in turn, gives rise to the urge to grab power
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A special FIA ‘welcome’
Immigration officers need to be trained for serving the public
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Islamabad’s worldview under Imran Khan
Imran Khan expresses the wish to see better relations with India
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Dangers to secularism in India
Assauddin Owaisi has demanded that there should be reservation for Muslims in the armed forces
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A new beginning
This is the third peaceful transfer of power in Pakistan and the third party in three elections to rule at the Centre